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by educomments 7y ago
If they had simply said "Facebook does not respect its users and is psychologically unhealthy; we're out" then I would've been pretty nonchalant. What a weird and unnecessary rant.
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by educomments 7y ago
openbox + fbpanel can approximate early gnome pretty closely with a tiny bit of work.
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by educomments 7y ago
I'd be careful generalizing this beyond Germany; DE is a weird place to do studies about AC because it's so much less common there than it is in e.g. the USA. However, anecdotally, it's not just women. It's basically eve
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by educomments 7y ago
> Also, just my own opinion based on observation, why do cemeteries get all the best real estate?? Dead people can't enjoy that view. Old cemeteries are de facto parks in cities that grow up around them. They're quite nice an
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by educomments 7y ago
Just ask. Warning: it's ridiculously expensive. You need to be charging your users 4+ figures per license for your software in order to be able to pay Wolfram their cut. The open/libre stuff is a huge red herring -- cost is the re
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by educomments 7y ago
Can someone confirm this? The Algorithmbase is 99.999% of what makes Mathematica useful compared to any language with a decent REPL or notebook setup. I can't really imagine a use case for the Wolfram Language if I'm not going to
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by educomments 7y ago
If one of those companies decided to drop decent money on turning SciPy+Jupyter (or Julia) into a proper high-performance CAS, Wolfram would be in huge -- maybe existential -- trouble.
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by educomments 7y ago
> 34 years old. Been writing software since I was 14. We have very similar profiles. I use calculus every day. > Statistics is 100% for sure more useful to me, in everyday life and at work. I use statistics every day too, workin
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by educomments 7y ago
The KKK and the nazis managed to form and grow without the help of the internet. Also, finding other people who enjoy talking about cars or writing fan fic doesn't have this sort of harmful in-group/out-group dynamic. So I'm
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by educomments 7y ago
> 1. It's not clear that AP Stat disadvantages students versus AP Calc. This is what stuck out to me. Isn't AP Calculus the obvious choice if you have to choose between AP Stats and AP Calculus? 1. Calculus is really, really