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Sorry to those who are curious, but I'm not going to state my reason - it's not all that personal but is still well with in the realm of "my own business". Surely it's not a prereq…

Can anyone help with this? From what I've gotten from google I'm meant to contact PG somehow. It's not exactly clear how and if there's some channel I can use that doesn't clutter …

I'll bite. From the bottom of the summary here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian#integrated_Symbian_plat... We get: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/21/canalys_iphone…

Maemo is a Debian based linux.

And if you like it check out boardgamegeek.com for more ideas :) Dominion isn't really my thing, but there's masses of really good games around these days.

I tried "the" first, and then "friend". It looks like it's generated from statistics plus a language model plus the contents of the web (possibly and/or google books). If that's th…

I really liked "The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals"

From what I can remember, Schors algorithm gives you a polynomial speedup for factoring rather than putting it in polynomial time. It's been a little while since I was up to speed …

Not wanting to step into an argument here, but I'd like to tie it back to the climate thing. I think it's cool that you'd go to an expert to see a reproducible experiment. I'm also…

Nothing else? What about the other gods that will damn you for not following them? I'd say it's an even split between all religions with a positive afterlife. Better heavens and na…

It's interesting to compare the results of the polls after they stabilise. I'm not sure if it fully accounts for selection bias, but it seems to be a better basis for comparison. I…

It looked like the most recent wave of erlang threads - or the one around the time when _why disappeared - got deleted by the admins. I was really disappointed by that, since it se…

C++ Coding Standard and C++ Common Knowledge are both pretty good in that regard. Although once you know what's going on under the hood you should be fairly safe - it just takes a …

This bit struck me: "...the vehemence of the editors’ point of view caught me off guard." I could be wrong, but is sounds like the editors of a publishing company were pushing for …

I can think of about 10-15 people worldwide who might be interested in my thesis, and since 3 of them are going to be examiners and all of them know each other it seems like a pret…

Now replace "touching my laptop" with "urinating in my car". It won't ruin the car. And it's just an object after all. If you urinated in someones car and they were upset, would yo…

Free e-copy of Red Mars at the same link. I've got the series in dead tree form already, but may as well grab it while it's there.

I know it's been mentioned before, but the leechblock extension for firefox is pretty good for that kind of thing: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 It lets you s…

I've started looking at the "new" page a little more these days. I've seen a few brand new users submitting facebook and yahoo, which could just be new users playing with submissio…

Fab@Home dream project: chocolate easter bunnies with anatomically correct frosting organs.

I'm hoping that he's turning into a Bond villian, considering the alternatives. He's been building terminator-style arms for a while now, out in the open, hiding in plain sight.

I'd be interested in knowing how many of the safety razor using folk in here made the switch after this http://www.shaveblog.com/2006/03/welcome-new-york-times-read... did a lap of…

"If you're into it" is also pretty sweet. For several meanings of the word. Kind of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8jaGs7xJ0

You could potentially use a run (or runs) through the O(n^100) problem to optimize approaches for smaller problems. If you were lucky that would ammortize the cost of the first run…