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by qpiox 1y ago
Probably the rest of the Balkans too.
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by qpiox 1y ago
They did not even spend time to put up a credible demo. The web app they demo has missing images, images that do not correspond to the text. Why would I or anyone else be convinced to spend much more time learning a new IDE and switching t
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by qpiox 1y ago
Open does not imply any freedoms. A software source could be openly put in the public but without license, hence you would not be free to use it nor to learn from it.
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by qpiox 2y ago
Reproduction is rarely done because it is not "new science". Everyone is funding only "new science".
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by qpiox 2y ago
The reality is a bit different. The "better" journals are listed in JCR. Nearly 40% of them have impact factor less than 1, it means that on average papers in them are cited less than 1 times. Conclusion: even in better journals,
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by qpiox 2y ago
> Using Postgres to generate HTML is questionable though. I haven't tried it but I can't image its a viable way to create user interfaces. Check https://apex.oracle.com/ which does that.
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by qpiox 3y ago
Paywall
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by qpiox 3y ago
I did the same search on DuckDuckGo and the first link I got refers to 77 chapters.
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by qpiox 4y ago
The only solution to this is that state authorities learn how this is a systemic problam and start to reject email addresses from operators like Gmail for all their services (and all email operators that do not have a real support and where
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by qpiox 4y ago
One should mention the most comprehensive web-site that includes all the info you will ever need about Vangelis and his work - Elsewhere - http://elsew.com/ I applaude the web-site authors and maintainers for their work ove
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by qpiox 4y ago
Countless hours of El Greco on loop during gaming sessions (Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and similar) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSXzPd8RX0Q )
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by qpiox 4y ago
If you don't care about music much, but are into synths and sounds check Ignacio ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnC4kLujgo ) or Spiral for something lighter ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VV1lWVhMC
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by qpiox 4y ago
Antarctica ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085991/ ) is a fantastic dreamy movie. It is a nature movie, somewhere in-between a feature film and documentary, about dogs that are left to survive alone during the winte
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by qpiox 4y ago
I am a proponent of server-side, use Apache Tapestry for most production apps and have only one yaml file in all the projects.
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by qpiox 4y ago
Just have in mind that longer paragraphs of text (in english) are more readable if the width of the text is 60-70 characters. But if your web-site is done by the book, a browser can detect longer texts and will allow the visitors to switch
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by qpiox 4y ago
I would say only Mozilla Thunderbird! The best arguments for a long-term mail storing solution - it keeps your emails and all your mail settings, in a form that is truly portable, so that you can easily move it from computer to computer I a
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by qpiox 4y ago
There is nothing strange in this practice of only using a certain type of joins. If you are right handed, and have a practice to write the joins in the direction one->many (or person->children, or in the opposite direction of a foreig
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by qpiox 4y ago
Don't succumb to the social pressure of the herd mentality. Be proud of what and who you are. Different is good. Try to be the best that you can be and all will be OK.
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by qpiox 5y ago
ACM members can offer their papers open-access legally and for free, helped by the ACM. ACM has an authorizer service that allows you as an author, to publish special links on your personal website, that will offer all visitors of your pers
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by qpiox 5y ago
Conferences are social gathering events. They are better attended if there are organized in better and more accessible places. Taking care of everything at conference, and do it at some better location has a cost. Some conferences are insti
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by qpiox 5y ago
Using ZIM on a daily basis for more than 10 years. I use some of it's features more often than others: - check lists as todo lists - daily log - drafting slides for presentations (using export to Presentation option and S5 option) Prim
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by qpiox 5y ago
If you have enough cash and time you can legally create your own list of all possible numbers on the world. Pick a number, dial and see if it exists. Hang up to prevent further charges.
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by qpiox 5y ago
Many SQL tools that use JDBC have support for CSV, TSV and other table-in-a-file data stores (e.g. DBF). I use DBeaver for nearly everything SQL. It is also open-source. Create a New Database connection, choose CSV, choose the folder with t
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by qpiox 5y ago
Some research on the topic: https://doi.org/10.1145/3344429.3372502 "The group found that pass rates in introductory programming courses appear to average about 75%; that there is some evidence that they sit at th
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by qpiox 6y ago
> I've also not heard a compelling argument that one play / minute streamed should be inherently more valuable than another play / minute streamed. Here's a compelling irrefutable argument. Let's start the discus
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by qpiox 6y ago
The discussion here was about why a debian package for Eclipse is not up to date. My theory is that it is obviously because there is a way how to run Eclipse, without any issues and without the need of an officially tested debian package, s
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by qpiox 6y ago
Maintaining a package is not as hard as developing software. You don't need to know algorithms, you don't need to know programming, you just need to know how to start a compiler and packaging software from the command line and rea
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by qpiox 6y ago
Well, you need to get competent enough before you take on a role as package maintainer. For start, imagine that you are one. First, choose a package that really matters to you. On a daily basis. A package that you yourself would NEED to hav
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by qpiox 6y ago
Why would you need a package for Eclipse. Download it is a ZIP, extract it in the location of your choice and run it from there. (Portable app) I have been using it like that almost every day for 15 years now.
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by qpiox 6y ago
I think the list of packages that need lovin', needs lovin' itself. It seems this list is abandonware. If you look into the details for some these packages, you will see that it is a dead discussion forgotten even by the person wh

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