cdavoren

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by cdavoren 14y ago
The 's' on the end of verbs has no relation to the plural 's'. It's simply how regular English verbs are inflected in the third-person singular. The link provided by jacobolus should tell you all you need to know.
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by cdavoren 14y ago
Sorry, but this a very limited description of the disease. Alzheimer's, like all dementias, is a disease of the brain , not "just memory". It comes with a whole suite of symptoms and difficulties that are experienced directly by the pati
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by cdavoren 15y ago
Well, not everyone has the opportunity or desire to be employed by one of the "big guys". The programming equivalent of fixing someone's plumbing is not going to change the world, but it lets you pay the bills, have a family, enjoy your [o
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by cdavoren 15y ago
This is a great idea. Unfortunately, I think I remember one of my electronics lecturers at uni telling us that generally communication/feedback with power supplies is dangerous because you introduce the possibility of unexpected power surg
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by cdavoren 15y ago
That's a fair interpretation. I'd be more comfortable if this difference were reflected in the documentation - it could at least state that if no previous quote is found, the next quote on the line will be used.
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by cdavoren 15y ago
It looks like the 'i(' motion has special meaning in Vim - it corresponds to the previous unmatched '(' to the next matched ')'. Type 'help motion.txt' and look for i(. Edit: Actually, the description for i" implies that its behaviour sh
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by cdavoren 15y ago
He was also an alcoholic, and high alcohol intake can cause depression all by itself, so there is a confounding factor there.
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by cdavoren 15y ago
All of the above. He trained as an electrical engineer first.
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by cdavoren 15y ago
It might also be worth noting that adherence with HIV medication is also motivated by simple fear: if you don't take it, you will die. Painfully, from secondary infection. Diabetes (type 2) and cardiac disease are scenarios where people
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by cdavoren 15y ago
As I understand it, both of these refer to the "cracker" definition; one is the "illegal hacker", the other is closer to "security consultant" with a hands-on connotation. "Hacker" in the Linus sense is totally different.
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by cdavoren 15y ago
I think the problem is fundamentally one of economics. Research is good, but you have to decide how much money to allocate to it. In order to decide, you need a metric for performance. Really, only scientists are qualified to judge wheth
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by cdavoren 15y ago
Yes it is. Often it's not for nefarious reasons - it happens a lot where I work because we use data from collaborators that is unpublished, and it's considered unethical to jump over them by releasing code or results based on it. Of course
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by cdavoren 15y ago
I couldn't tell you directly, but it's the same format that the ExtJS docs themselves are in. I would guess that the ExtJS has some kind of documentation tool for this sort of thing.
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by cdavoren 16y ago
This is backed up by medical knowledge. It has been repeatedly shown that metabolism varies very little between people when corrected for body mass. What does vary considerably is appetite, and this is the major contributor to body weig