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In the future, people will look at these cases and shake their heads in disbelief. I hope the judges do the right thing here. The publishers seem too attached to their licensing sc…

Well, time to pick up duolingo's Spanish course... When life gives you lemons…

I really like your comment. As a scientist I'd say that a pragmatic solution (widely used in experimental sciences) is to calibrate your measures. Want to use a yes/no? Fine (maybe…

My guess is that it uses analytical geometry to compute the equations of the drawn items. This also may includes a mapping to some canonical dimension(size) and orientation(rotatio…

Also gmail is the default android app but I'd guess they have consider that.

This may be a case of following the data with disregard to the dynamics. 1. In the beginning there was G Mail and there where two camps(roughly): a. Those who made heavy use of e-m…

As stated elsewhere in this thread, social media is about collecting your data. This includes what you like, what you hate, what makes you happy, who you love, who you look up to, …

As stated elsewhere in this thread, social media is about collecting your data. This includes what you like, what you hate, what makes you happy, who you love, who you look up to, …

If the revenue from the money transfers business is 30 billions per year and the cost of electricity is 0.12 U$D per KW/h. Then the cost, in energy terms, of the money transfer bus…

Just another data point, but for me it's the opposite. I drink mate every morning becasue its effect is softer than that of coffee. I only drink coffee when I need extra alertness.…

Obligatory mention to `coq` and `Software foundations`(SF). `coq` is an amazing piece of software. SF makes you start prooving thing right from chapter one. Learn mathematics by do…

I wonder how many different "cultures" do drivers have? People from different localities drive differently. I hope they use drivers from say, NY, LA, and various small towns to tea…

This article[0]: "The functor design pattern" shows how to identify functors in code. [0] http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/09/the-functor-design-patt...

To add to the point. IMHO this difamation laws are a patch to problem of people beliving blindly what they read. In times where the press was the most popular medium and few voices…

This illustrates the way I see the "thing" with expectations: "They come from previos experience(including research as previos experience)". The Zen's mind, begginers' mind books s…

In the case of clothing, limiting your choices seems just like a patch to the problem. When ever I find myself looking for an especific shirt I try to focus on the real problem: fi…

I've found this site extremely useful for fitness: http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

I know you are joking, but I don't think this is a bad idea nor an imposible one.

I think the glucose present in the cerebrospinal fluid is there for a reason. Probably not to power implants. PS: I'm not a doctor.

To describe electromagnetic waves, or to write a solution to the wave equation, you need to use a system of coordinates. The most common by far is the rectangular system (x,y,z), b…