strayer

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by strayer 15y ago
The question is fundamentally flawed, in that "data structure" is a concept used by programmers to communicate with computers (or between programmers). A comparable question would be wondering whether the computer you are using right now, a
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by strayer 15y ago
Agreed. Watching Carl Sagan´s Cosmos at age 9 was fascinating, even though a second viewing, years later, was much more informative.
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by strayer 15y ago
A law could be the way to fix that if it concerns state-owned media, which in France (and Europe, in general) is mainstream.
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by strayer 15y ago
That was somehow sorted out by the Mythbusters (Season 1, Episode 8). Or is news of Russians burying themselves a meta-urban myth?
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Ask HN: How is teaching Visual Basic limiting?
1 points by strayer 15y ago|2 comments
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It was illegal to give a kidney to someone you didn't know in the UK [audio](livingkidneydonation.co.uk)
3 points by strayer 15y ago|0 comments
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How to read a paper(badscience.net)
2 points by strayer 15y ago|0 comments
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by strayer 15y ago
Isn't it a "page" or "document", and not a "website"?
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by strayer 15y ago
The first paragraph describes a common structure of the articles in The Economist, which goes a long way towards explaining why it is so satisfying to read.
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by strayer 15y ago
The physorg article mixes up, at first, the nature/nurture question and the cross-modality of perception question (whether internal representations good for tactile perception are also good for visual perception). Those are very different
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by strayer 15y ago
http://clipperz.com rocks in terms of usability, convenience, and a sense of security (which might be false: here is a call for criticism). It is open source, portable (runs in Javascript), works on and offline and well designed. You can
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by strayer 15y ago
> I don't like the idea of using a password manager, because it's difficult to move it across platforms http://clipperz.com is a very portable password manager. It works on your computer as well as online. It relies on your browser be
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by strayer 16y ago
I think that it adds value to the conversation, because one of the reasons why the link is featured here is to discuss the branding.
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by strayer 16y ago
I read "social scam" in the HN entry. I only realised it was "social cam" when I actually clicked on the link (after I read a few of the top-ranked comments).
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by strayer 16y ago
Or use Readability http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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One-slide presentation software(prezi.com)
1 points by strayer 16y ago|0 comments
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by strayer 16y ago
You could bootstrap Zombal as a "payment system" for scientific reviews. Get in touch with the organisers of a national-level scientific conference. They could offer reviewers the option of getting Zombal credits for their (currently unpaid
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by strayer 16y ago
I am considering that, but shutting down during off hours so as not to run into a bill of >$200 a year (I'm not a new customer). I am curious about people's experiences with using them for that purpose. I found using EC2's non-micro ins
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by strayer 16y ago
Yes, something like the idea of a Virtual Private Server is what I was looking for, thanks. I wonder what's people's experience for single-user, private daily use.
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Ask HN: unix home in the cloud?
5 points by strayer 16y ago|9 comments
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by strayer 16y ago
Since e is a number, not a function (the function is exp = lambda x: e^x) then 1/e is not log but one divided by e. I once was told that using, say, 1/cos for acos is specific to English-speaking countries. Does anyone know about that?
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by strayer 16y ago
For the Airbus style of jobs perhaps you should consider Hamburg (similar costs, much smaller) because there you could find... Airbus. Not so international atmosphere, though, although the harbour is major local industry. An added bonus is
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Network latency as data storage
3 points by strayer 16y ago|3 comments
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by strayer 16y ago
> I want dialogue! I want mutual reinforcement! I want to comment and be commented upon! I want community, in other words. Long rant, but pleasant read. This thought sprung up: On-demand reinforcement, the kind that one would get just b