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endeavour
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Comment #47600601
Brilliant. So now you have no clutter but your office looks like it has chicken pox.
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Comment #38845710
Very excited to give this a try!
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Comment #37687847
A house is just a big box really. Why do humans love boxes so much?
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Comment #37348963
The technique is called volume rendering. I'm not sure what library they specifically use but a popular one is VTK.
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Comment #31564692
Wish this was around when I was a student!
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Comment #17020013
I also mentally started thinking about integral solutions. I wonder if it's also because of the variable names... a,b,c tend to be used to represent integers (e.g. Fermat's Last Th…
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Comment #14022282
Google Flights also tells you when a particular flight is often subject to delays. Very handy.
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Comment #13877305
F# version that fits in a tweet: let r,n=Random(),1e7 let d()=(r.NextDouble()-0.5)**2.0 [0.0..n] |>Seq.sumBy(function _ when d()+d() 4.0/n|_->0.0) |>printfn "%f"
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Comment #12080228
No, I was just giving some examples. If you follow your logic the UK needn't worry about not having a trade deal with the EU.
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Comment #12080025
I happen to agree we should have an election, but I would point out: 1) Unlike EU commissioners, people can vote Theresa May out at the next general election. 2) The UK has a parli…
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Comment #12079945
Ok but the numbers you quoted assumed a linear relationship. In no way is it "almost certain" that investment in the UK will decrease. The evidence currently suggests the complete …
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Comment #12079786
Chile, Switzerland and Iceland all have free trade agreements with China. The EU doesn't.
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Comment #12079342
It isn't that simple. There isn't a linear relationship between the tax % and the revenue to the treasury. Lower taxes encourage more companies to set up in the UK. We saw this rec…
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Comment #12079175
See how far you have to scroll down the list to find an university inside the EU (excluding the UK). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...
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Comment #12079151
EU money doesn't come out of thin air. It comes from taxpayers. The UK is a net contributor to the EU so the UK government could choose to fund all current commitments and still be…
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Comment #11946648
Haskell has many great attributes but predictable performance isn't amongst them (laziness makes it difficult to reason about) so I doubt it is used for HFT.
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Comment #9340687
I remember being impressed that the BeOS media player could play audio CDs backwards in real-time. Not really sure why you'd want to but it was quite a good party trick.
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Comment #9334805
Off-by-one error :P
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Comment #9288573
I doubt spending on AWS scales linearly with company revenue so I'm not sure why the author thinks amazon is getting a "cut" from competitors.
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Comment #9100138
Because the market will bear it. People have jobs in London, but can't afford to live there. Driving usually isn't an option either because parking prices and London traffic are pr…
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Comment #9032107
This is a really neat idea. I wrote test-scripts for cell culture machines a few years back. Great fun moving giant robotic arms around! If you can indeed encode all the primitives…
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Comment #8923692
It's even worse in Europe.