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Probably the rest of the Balkans too.

They did not even spend time to put up a credible demo. The web app they demo has missing images, images that do not correspond to the text. Why would I or anyone else be convinced…

Open does not imply any freedoms. A software source could be openly put in the public but without license, hence you would not be free to use it nor to learn from it.

Reproduction is rarely done because it is not "new science". Everyone is funding only "new science".

The reality is a bit different. The "better" journals are listed in JCR. Nearly 40% of them have impact factor less than 1, it means that on average papers in them are cited less t…

> Using Postgres to generate HTML is questionable though. I haven't tried it but I can't image its a viable way to create user interfaces. Check https://apex.oracle.com/ which does…

Paywall

I did the same search on DuckDuckGo and the first link I got refers to 77 chapters.

The only solution to this is that state authorities learn how this is a systemic problam and start to reject email addresses from operators like Gmail for all their services (and a…

One should mention the most comprehensive web-site that includes all the info you will ever need about Vangelis and his work - Elsewhere - http://elsew.com/ I applaude the web-site…

Countless hours of El Greco on loop during gaming sessions (Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and similar) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSXzPd8RX0Q )

If you don't care about music much, but are into synths and sounds check Ignacio ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnC4kLujgo ) or Spiral for something lighter ( https://www.youtu…

Antarctica ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085991/ ) is a fantastic dreamy movie. It is a nature movie, somewhere in-between a feature film and documentary, about dogs that are lef…

I am a proponent of server-side, use Apache Tapestry for most production apps and have only one yaml file in all the projects.

Just have in mind that longer paragraphs of text (in english) are more readable if the width of the text is 60-70 characters. But if your web-site is done by the book, a browser ca…

I would say only Mozilla Thunderbird! The best arguments for a long-term mail storing solution - it keeps your emails and all your mail settings, in a form that is truly portable, …

There is nothing strange in this practice of only using a certain type of joins. If you are right handed, and have a practice to write the joins in the direction one->many (or pers…

Don't succumb to the social pressure of the herd mentality. Be proud of what and who you are. Different is good. Try to be the best that you can be and all will be OK.

ACM members can offer their papers open-access legally and for free, helped by the ACM. ACM has an authorizer service that allows you as an author, to publish special links on your…

Conferences are social gathering events. They are better attended if there are organized in better and more accessible places. Taking care of everything at conference, and do it at…

Using ZIM on a daily basis for more than 10 years. I use some of it's features more often than others: - check lists as todo lists - daily log - drafting slides for presentations (…

If you have enough cash and time you can legally create your own list of all possible numbers on the world. Pick a number, dial and see if it exists. Hang up to prevent further cha…

Many SQL tools that use JDBC have support for CSV, TSV and other table-in-a-file data stores (e.g. DBF). I use DBeaver for nearly everything SQL. It is also open-source. Create a N…

Some research on the topic: https://doi.org/10.1145/3344429.3372502 "The group found that pass rates in introductory programming courses appear to average about 75%; that there is …

> I've also not heard a compelling argument that one play / minute streamed should be inherently more valuable than another play / minute streamed. Here's a compelling irrefutable …