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betatim

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About betatim

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    Yes. Because the PDF standard specifies a mechanism that lets you "attach" files to a PDF :)

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    Comment #20762522

    This looks pretty slick, will have to see which parts/ideas we should copy for https://mybinder.org . Which is an open-source project that lets you do something very similar, mostl…

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    Comment #19805925

    You can try it online: https://mybinder.org/v2/gl/lfortran%2Fweb%2Flfortran-binder/... !

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    Comment #19114719

    The title is misleading and wrong. The article is about a new library that lets you write kernels in C++. There is however a kernel for C++ that you can try here: https://mybinder.…

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    Comment #18966562

    Is this the Sage you mean: https://github.com/sagemath/sage-binder-env Once in a while someone working with/on Sage pops up on my radar but I am not sure what the up-to-date and ma…

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    Comment #18966407

    Some demos and examples: https://jupyter.org/try all the repos linked from there are backed by mybinder.org (The interpreted C++ one blows my mind) Some examples if you want to kno…

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    Comment #18966382

    https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about.html#who-pay... At the current level of usage and compute resources it costs about $50000 per year to run the services, if you don't…

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    Comment #18966364

    That is the right link. Unfortunately we haven't yet found a good UX solution to people sharing the "wrong" link which only works for their personal instance. (I am a project lead …

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    Comment #18966356

    https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/norvig/pytudes/master and https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/#pytudes to see what it looks like in the original repo (I am a project lead on binder)

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    Comment #18742858

    nbdime - https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ works very well and works well in the terminal with `git diff` for me ( https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vcs.html#usage ). …

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    Comment #15838323

    Pretty cool idea. How long does it normally take for an alarm to happen after an email is sent to the insider's email address? I just emailed my insider about 5min ago and there is…

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    Comment #14304002

    Sentinel II images are great and provide many wavelengths. The resolution is a bit low for tracing though I think.

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    Comment #11222829

    SEEKING WORK - Switzerland, Remote Tim is a scientist at the Large Hadron Collider and open source tool maker. I help develop open source software that is used by thousands of busi…

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    Comment #11029750

    SEEKING WORK - Geneva or Remote I consult on machine-learning, statistics and software development. I help companies make data driven decisions by taking advantage of the data they…

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    Comment #9883585

    A little history on previous pentaquark discoveries http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjh%2Fe2012-2003...

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    Comment #9206984

    Can someone explain why they flip a coin twice per year per fund? The author wrote a second column ( http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/your-money/heads-or-tails-... ) explaining ho…

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    Comment #8853159

    Full text for free: http://rdcu.be/bVbR This is a link to nature's new "share it for everyone to read if you have paid access to the article" version of 'open-access'. A new antibi…

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    Comment #8687160

    Conclusion, I forgot to turn off my VPN at some point when testing the resulting link. If you are not at CERN (like me) it will just show a preview :( If you want to learn about gr…

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    Comment #8686984

    Regarding the creation of the links to read the articles. For me the readcube link is just made from the DOI you get on the public webpage. It is so simple that I even wrote a litt…