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by iansinke 6y ago
UPDATE: Thank you for this advice. My girlfriend was able to recover her account by telling Oculus support that she wanted to buy a product, but wouldn’t commit to it unless she knew her account would be usable.
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Ask HN: My girlfriend is “permanently” locked out of her Facebook account
32 points by iansinke 6y ago|20 comments
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by iansinke 6y ago
Around that age, I read "The Heart of Mathematics", by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird. It's a really fun book which introduces a wide variety of math concepts while being amusing to read. https://www.amazon.com
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Google Scholar parses cafeteria lunch menu as an author list(twitter.com)
7 points by iansinke 6y ago|0 comments
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Fighting for the Right to Drive(newyorker.com)
1 points by iansinke 7y ago|0 comments
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by iansinke 8y ago
I've been playing the piano since I was 4. Learn from my mistake: don't "cheat" by skimping on scales and other technical skills! I know it's not as fun as playing actual music, but as with anything, there is no roy
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You don’t have to quit Facebook – just start lying about yourself(thestar.com)
5 points by iansinke 8y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Name a company in Canada with a name trademarked in the USA
1 points by iansinke 12y ago|2 comments
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by iansinke 13y ago
That is exactly correct, for wind instruments at least: and in fact, some wind instruments have more than 10 holes or keys. But many combinations produce identical sounds, limiting the range of the instrument. The limiting factor on a wind
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by iansinke 13y ago
The graph is just slightly misleading -- the horizontal scale starts at 20, not 0.
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BornYet: Notify friends when your baby arrives(bornyet.com)
4 points by iansinke 13y ago|6 comments
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Pixelmator sneaks hidden "Vectormator" into update(pixelmator.com)
14 points by iansinke 13y ago|1 comments
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by iansinke 13y ago
Their site is absolutely hammered right now. The live video feed here ( http://live.reuters.com/Event/Boston_Marathon_Explosion?live ) has details. They have video of 2 suspects, one of which set down an "unusually heavy" backpack.
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by iansinke 13y ago
I just found it ironic -- and possibly suspect? -- that 1 week after this XKCD What If? article ( http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/ ), something like this happened. Could the XKCD article possibly have inspired the method of execution?
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Boston Marathon bombs were placed in 6-litre pressure cookers(news.nationalpost.com)
1 points by iansinke 13y ago|2 comments
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by iansinke 13y ago
My Nexus 4 arrives this week... :)
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by iansinke 13y ago
> Take risks and have fun. I'd love to take risks and have fun, but when you're in college, looking for good, steady, well-paid, full-time summer employment, it's just not very appealing to take risks with your finances. I'm there right
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by iansinke 13y ago
I wouldn't ask those questions point-blank, but if you are reasonably personable and chatty, it's usually pretty easy to lead the conversation in that direction.
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by iansinke 13y ago
I guess the Python 3 team is in South Africa, and the Python 2 team is on the East Coast...? ;)
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by iansinke 13y ago
How many companies offer internships longer than a summer? I have a co-op position for this summer but after my 3rd year I'm hoping to get something longer, a 12 or 16 month position. Also -- are many American companies friendly towards Can
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by iansinke 13y ago
Maybe I'm reading the graphs wrong, but they seem somewhat misleading to me: shouldn't the average (top of the blue bar, bottom of slightly greener blue bar) be what you're comparing to the others? The other columns are all strictly average
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by iansinke 14y ago
The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so. Nobody who's "at the forefront of the most advanced mathematics ever known to mankind" needs that much notes to talk a
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by iansinke 14y ago
Being in my second year of Electrical (and Biomedical) Engineering at McMaster University, I have to say I love CircuitLab. My advice would be: Buy all the EE textbooks (they're expensive, I know...) and make sure that all the problems in t
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by iansinke 14y ago
I agree -- I've found myself in that exact case that he described (mindlessly adding and subtracting one on various loop indices until it worked) more than once.
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Ask HN: Web apps or desktop software? Where's the market?
1 points by iansinke 14y ago|0 comments
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by iansinke 14y ago
My experience is that, if you're in a place where you want to work on a laptop, that place will probably have wifi. Sure, in the park, on the street, your chances are lower -- but that's where you'd be pulling out your phone or tablet inste
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by iansinke 14y ago
A one-second video is seldom going to show more than a single photograph. Sure, there's a little motion, but the quality is worse and if you want to stop and take a look you have to pause the video. I'd stick with taking one photo a day. I
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by iansinke 14y ago
"How I Pivot-tabled Into The NFL"
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by iansinke 14y ago
I would have to disagree with the general statement that "textbooks suck". Stewart's calculus ("the violin book") is really a great textbook, and it's used very widely. Serway Jewett is a superb Physics textbook. The examples, in particular
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by iansinke 14y ago
The integral evaluates to 2012.93. Wouldn't that be November 11? Or perhaps September 3...

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