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Is COBOL holding you hostage with Math? (2018)(medium.com)
3 points by sghi 6y ago|0 comments
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Shog9 (Josh Heyer) Has Left Stack Overflow(twitter.com)
7 points by sghi 7y ago|1 comments
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Apple, Google, and Amazon create “CHIP,” a new smart home standard [Updated](arstechnica.com)
2 points by sghi 7y ago|0 comments
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by sghi 7y ago
As someone who uses and teaches R extensively (and loves the tidyverse) the tidyverse is so much easier to teach to people without any programming experience and who have very little faith in their tech or maths skills (which was me as well
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Tumblr’s porn ban is going about as badly as expected(arstechnica.com)
4 points by sghi 8y ago|2 comments
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by sghi 8y ago
I'd always (and always do) google an advert rather than trying to remember the exact website anyway. If you search 'href sep' or 'hrefs seo' or even 'aref seo' it always still comes up as the first result
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Mozilla bakes ‘Have I Been Pwned’ into Firefox’s new privacy tool(thenextweb.com)
50 points by sghi 8y ago|1 comments
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by sghi 8y ago
So this is the research area that I currently work in, albeit with a disease ecology perspective rather than a biochemistry one. I've had a quick read of it and and although it does seem to track other research that has been done (&quo
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by sghi 9y ago
It's great that this has been picked up recently, it's something I've been following along with for a while. If anyone is interested, James Heathers runs a podcast called Everything Hertz ( https://twitter.com/
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by sghi 9y ago
No, he worked for Pfizer - https://www.troyhunt.com/today-marks-two-important-milestone...
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by sghi 9y ago
Are you sure? I'm nearly certain that PLOS is a publisher that charges manuscript charges for OA papers - most do.
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Homeless in Paris(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by sghi 9y ago|0 comments
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by sghi 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they would be able to - I worked with cancer trial data (just a student job, doing data entry) but all patients were completely anonymised to anyone working with the data but readily identifiable by a specific unique ID
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Cities around US offer billions in tax breaks to be Amazon’s HQ2(arstechnica.co.uk)
1 points by sghi 9y ago|0 comments
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New feature in iOS 11 quickly and temporarily disables Touch ID(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by sghi 9y ago|1 comments
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NZ judge: Our spies surveilled Kim Dotcom for 2 months longer than admitted(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by sghi 9y ago|0 comments
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by sghi 9y ago
I love Chance, but I can't imagine that he's got the net worth already himself to buy SoundCloud / make a meaningful investment - maybe he has contacts who do or could help an investment group, but I think it might be a bit f
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Seven years later, you can now run the Azure cloud on premises(arstechnica.com)
1 points by sghi 9y ago|0 comments
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by sghi 9y ago
Never heard of any of them either - from the Midlands and used to travel around UK a lot for work and never heard anyone use them in any conversation.
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by sghi 9y ago
They always seemed to have quite a lot of games testers there as well(used to recruit for contract MS workers for Reading and London)
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by sghi 9y ago
Not a huge amount of experience with models this big, but a common problem I see in Ecology is a bit of a misunderstanding of how models can be used - they're only really useful as a representation of what is going on and a way of tryi
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by sghi 9y ago
That is true, they do, but in the UK at least all new ones/sites do need full ecological impact assessments (there are various levels of assessment needed depending on habitat suitability) and hopefully there will be a lessening on the
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15-second ads coming to Amazon’s Alexa(arstechnica.com)
5 points by sghi 9y ago|2 comments
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by sghi 9y ago
I get why they've done it, and The Guardian is a site that I both contribute to and disable my ad-blocker for, but I will miss the speed at which the articles load on my ancient and rubbish phone. I'd still rather support them tho
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Acer's Predator 21 X notebook will cost you more than a family car(wired.co.uk)
3 points by sghi 10y ago|0 comments
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by sghi 10y ago
I think you may be two days too late. But happy Festivus to you too - it isn't over until you've pinned me.
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Why Did Microsoft Bring SQL Server to Linux, and How?(arstechnica.co.uk)
5 points by sghi 10y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22%(money.cnn.com)
49 points by sghi 10y ago|67 comments
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Amazon reveals Twitch’s first currency, gambling systems(arstechnica.com)
4 points by sghi 10y ago|0 comments
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by sghi 10y ago
What I've seen and (briefly) read from this article seem to agree - as soon as the Emerald Ash Borer appears in the UK, it's game over for us. We've (UK) been suffering from ash dieback in a very large way, and although we se

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