p1itopre

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by p1itopre 5y ago
https://blog.plover.com/math/finite-projective-planes.html
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by p1itopre 6y ago
Its the concept of the long tail. I miss https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-... https
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by p1itopre 7y ago
The other way to go about it is to shrink the screen from 14" to 12". I would prefer this configuration.
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by p1itopre 7y ago
There is indeed a problem that the article describes: book pirates with very little oversight selling books on Amazon and making a profit for both. A result of this practice is that people get substandard copies of books with typos. The hea
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by p1itopre 7y ago
I noticed some time ago that I do not learn more about a topic the more frequently I check on it (i.e., multiple times a day). So, I make it a point to only visit websites that update daily (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/sec
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by p1itopre 8y ago
No, you are not. The extensive problem sets at the end of each chapter is main contribution of this work (imho). However this is not a shortcoming these days. I spend upto ~1 hour on each problem. And then I google keywords from the questio
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by p1itopre 8y ago
Yet another. West coast I think. http://www.daveskillerbread.com/secondchances/
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by p1itopre 8y ago
$35 per month for the digital subscription is comparable to the Financial Times subscription. It looks like they are going after that reader demographic.
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by p1itopre 8y ago
If I do not have a facebook account, does this change anything? There are facebook pixels all over the web. Do I need to continue deleting cookies to stop the tracking?
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by p1itopre 9y ago
This is not surprising at all. Another interesting problem that you can solve is using your social media friends' cars to predict an individual 's political leanings.
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by p1itopre 10y ago
I assume you guys (or gals) are single or DINKs :) School districts are by far the biggest driver in South bay. I'm personally not sure about SF.
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China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech(nytimes.com)
2 points by p1itopre 10y ago|0 comments
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by p1itopre 10y ago
Given my technical background (SWE), I have found only one useful tip for salary negotiations during a job offer: get atleast two offers and play the companies against each other. I've found nothing else to be effective.
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by p1itopre 11y ago
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/19/roboto-v-helveti...
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by p1itopre 11y ago
My creepiest experience on LI: my six year old niece is a recommended connection.
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by p1itopre 12y ago
Thanks!
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by p1itopre 12y ago
I was searching for a link to download the data (a csv maybe) for me to play with. Did someone find a link?
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by p1itopre 13y ago
Transaction Fraud Detection http://www.fico.com/en/Products/DMApps/Pages/FICO-Falcon-Fra...
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by p1itopre 15y ago
From the source: "To be clear, I'm talking specifically about the user interface -- the look and feel of the platform. Most of the actual ICS features are present in Samsung's TouchWiz-modified Android 4.0: You will get things like the new
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by p1itopre 15y ago
"I have a recurring daydream where Android incorporates the best of WebOS into its next release, and it's suddenly far-and-away the best mobile OS." Its happening already. Matias Duarte ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Duarte ) has b
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by p1itopre 15y ago
I am a big fan of webOS, so my views may be off. I am not a developer, just a consumer, so my comments may even be irrelevant to the OP. webOS definitely had its rough edges. The phone app will be sluggish (what jwz was referring to, try an
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by p1itopre 15y ago
I get the feeling that HP does not care about the phone market too much. However, the table market is something they are scared will eat into their PC business. So, I expect HP to push the TouchPad with all its might. If that happens, an iP
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by p1itopre 15y ago
You have been able to buy the unlocked Pre2 for quite some time: http://www.shopping.hp.com/store/product/product_detail/FB32... There are lots of reasons to avoid webos; but this is not one.