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I feel like SQL is a bit of a categorically different thing to the others on this list. It's best to have python (or another language) and SQL, if you're going to be in a 'coder' r…

Lamy does a really nice (and easy to replace) left-handed medium fountain pen nib. https://blog.gouletpens.com/2017/09/lamy-oblique-and-left-ha...

Half a yard an hour wins my award for the least intuitive way ever to describe printer throughput.

This other article seems to explain it https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/

I apologise if I've failed a reading comprehension check, but did the article say what the computer was used for?

Would it be possible to correct the name in the sub text?

The practice of offering zero-hours contracts for university lecturing has been very controversial in the UK[1] and other parts of Europe. I think they short-change the students an…

Thefacebook pitched without a problem slide by showing engagement at a massive level. https://digiday.com/media/how-eduardo-saverin-sold-facebook-... Arguably the problem that is i…

Also entering an odd number of double quotes in the from line creates an error too.

Thanks for clarifying

I was a bit surprised to see FTL not recommended, for example. I would describe it as a very good, very accessible game.

This is the original contributor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Brownw... If they are generating content automatically, they are also using the same account …

Am I right in thinking that this is ipython / jupyter but for javascript?

Price is huge. 7,000 for something that doesn't even run the same software? And weighs 5+ kg? They did to some extent have that $5 option in in the form Of a few floppies in a brie…

You're right. For me, it does point to the fact that most predictions are wrong at some point, right at some point, and irrelevant before and after. The things that was a laptop th…

'I' doesn't seem to work. It is very common. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=I%2C+you&year_...

This is especially true since they pick a much, much leaner choices for Subway. I can't understand that.

How do they compare to Vibrams? I tried to get a pair of KSO or Bikila last time I was in the USA, but all the shops have stopped stocking them since the company settled a lawsuit.…

All sports have complications. Swimmers can get shoulder issues and tendinitis ( http://physioworks.com.au/Injuries-Conditions/Activities/swi... ). Cyclists can suffer overuse inju…

Does Frozen yogurt follow this logic? It seems like a harder sounding word might imply the health effects

I think that the issue is that just measuring simplicity in terms of number of lines is a bad metric. You can have extremely complex expressions in a single statement that are at l…

http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/17r570/is_there_... is a possible source of thoughts?

It's also worth noting that typically people gain weight during Ramadan. They eat way more, richer food as it's a time of celebration and dehydration from the day. http://latimesbl…

It's very pretty, but using the down button to go right is a bit counter-intuitive.

I would suggest the following topics (forgive me if this is a bit disorganised) Languages: R, Python (pandas, numpy), C++ or Java, Matlab/Octave Stats & Machine Learning Topics: Ne…