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For people interested in the relationship between algebra and geometry, there is a quite rigorous, yet not too long discussion of these topics in the "Elements of Geometry for Comp…

Is it? Intel has been purchasing large quantities of green energy for years. In the last few year it has been 100% of the their overall consumption [1]. Is there any difference in …

Certain services (Search, Gmail, YouTube) are inaccessible from Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

This article is quite ignorant of any history. It might be cool for preschoolers to find flags with similar geometry and colors, but making any conclusions without mentioning the h…

Is there a way to find for how long they use the app before deleting it? Can you track the activity of the user, e.g. number of tasks added per day? Or, in other words, are you los…

I went down the same road - using mdadm and a UPS instead of a HW RAID controller with battery backup unit. LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i SGL with a battery backup costs roughly 650 EUR…

I think it's a macro. A company that builds companies.

I have to admit that it comes close to Volvo's best achievement today. But not quite. I've managed to cram a 2m (6.6 ft) ladder into my 15 years old S40. Which makes me even more f…

Are all these icons black-and-white? It seems to be fashionable to use monochrome colors for icons these days (Gmail, many mobile and desktop apps). It makes for a sleek and calm i…

What kind of scanner/imaging equipment is needed for the studies? It's not quite clear to me from the article.

On a related note. Which python library would you recommend for text-based interfaces? I have never used ncurses, so I don't know how complex it is. What I would like to achieve is…

We need new countries as much as spaces between sentences and question marks.

I am quite sure that by "scaling" he meant the scaling of their business activities and not software. "... Google offers to bring that scale to us. For me, ultimately building grea…

"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is not a howto guide. It's not a list of 101 tips and tricks for drawing charts, where one would wish for 200 tips instead. It's a …

As a matter of fact, I do speak the language. A lot of things feel weird to me when I come to visit the city. I have this uneasy feeling about things like the Hungarian Guard [1][2…

I can't help myself, but Twitter seems to me like a subset of Facebook. Something like ICQ, AIM, or Yahoo Messenger is to Facebook Chat or Skype. It came at the right time in the U…

Thats probably more money than the size of the whole European self-storage industry. I'm really curious, why are these services so popular in the US? What do you store there? When?…

The good (well...) news is that the curved lines can't even be seen, when the logo is shrinked :)

I found an interesting figure [1] for those of us who could name a few, but are not as well versed in the geography of Britain. It compares British cities to similar European citie…

Software is eating the world. For real now. And it is eating hardware. This is such a strong force that even old time franchises like Microsoft and Motorola can't do anything about…