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Linked[×] via that article is a similar story of obtaining access to the official scan of Rodin's Thinker. It's an interesting tale told in the form of email and official letters...

[×] https://cosmowenman.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/20190911-cos...

Python isn't that strict about whitespace? It's just using indents to delineate blocks and newlines implicitly terminate statements (unless you have an unclosed brace).

Anywhere else, you can add as much whitespace as you want.

As a shareholder, what's the difference between 50 years and forever, anyway? Are you locked into the shares to the point where you're not even allowed to sell them? If not, what's the likelihood anyway that you would have kept them for the full 50 year duration?

N=9? For that second chart, remove the best performer as an outlier and it falls apart. This reads more as "Softbank is poor at making good choices" than anything concrete.

One of the posts down the page references "The Great Weibo Unblocking of late-January 2012", and many of the posts show separate block statuses from November and February.

No mention of the two Entrepreneurship classes? Were they not there originally?

Technology Entrepreneurship: http://www.startup-class.org/

Learn Launchpad: http://www.launchpad-class.org/

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So what are these courses? Video isn't working for me at the moment but judging by the descriptions they seem to be more involved than the CS courses:

Quoting from the Launchpad description:

  Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to
  customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the 
  chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works.

EDIT: 10 minutes later, the Technology Entrepreneurship class redirects to a blank page and is no longer linked to from the other courses...

Hey, think this means there might be even more courses coming out later?

We'll have to see what happens to the evaluation systems once the term ends, but at the very least you can sign up for all the classes and download the videos.

More importantly, for evaluation purposes, the quizzes and exercises can be submitted late, though penalized in points. Since what you get out of the course for having a high score (a certificate/letter of completion?) is worth about as much as toilet paper, you can still do the exercises and be evaluated on them even weeks later. We'll have to see if they keep the system running past the end of the semester - probably won't happen with ML, but maybe DB will stick around a bit.

AI, well, that doesn't have any homework.

So, next semester, sign up for all the courses, stick with all of them past the introduction week, pick one or you you'll focus on, and dabble in the rest.

Well, maybe not the CS101 course...

> Massive Preferences List - Looking at that screenshot, the list doesn't seem massive. I seem to recall Firefox (or maybe Opera, this was a while back) having a large grid of options that was several pages long.

> Other Bookmarks - I don't have that on my current Chrome. I think this is because this is a folder that comes with the default install - if you go to the bookmarks manager you should be able to remove it.

> Status Bar - I kinda like it - you don't want the status bar popping up and hiding your cursor. Except in your video it's a lot more erratic than on mine at the moment.

> Favicons/Too many tabs - Favicons help when there are too many tabs. A common problem for me.

> Can you tell at a glance whether this site is loading or not? It's loading - the icon next to the URL is an X and not the reload icon.

There are some things that bug me, like broken pdf support - the built-in pdf viewer doesn't support rotation, for instance.

So, coal is the car, and nuclear power is the airplane.

But that is how we experience them - though perhaps not with electrical signals, but chemical ones instead. e.g. dopamine. We're programmed to enjoy dopamine.

I assumed that all those garbled messages were from typing on an iPhone. One particular error reeked of autocorrect. If you've seen the things people post on Damnyouautocorrect...

Still no excuse for not writing professionally and at least checking up on what you just typed.

Try going at it through google. http://www.google.ca/search?q=I+make+getting+fired+look+good...)

Hm, not sure how to include that ) in the URL, but the shorted search term works anyways.

"How is that" clearly refers to Bing's response. I'll admit that I interpreted your post "I think this response is convincing" as referring to lysium's response to your post. It may have been clearer if you had written 'the response', or more directly, 'Microsoft/Bing's response'.

I run into that quite a bit. It generally happens when you sit on a page for a long time - somewhere between half an hour and an hour, I'd guess.

How should this to be fixed (if it does)? 5 second timer on the 'Unknown/Expired Link' page that redirects to the front page?

I'm annoyed that I didn't even know about UBB until earlier today, when I stumbled across Reddit Montreal and saw something about the organization of a protest.

Then again I'm getting all my news from here and Slashdot these days - haven't watched any TV in ages.

My ISP already posted up new rates conforming to UBB - if it does get overturned, I hope they'll return to the old rates: $29 a month for unlimited bandwidth (soft capped at 100GB). I'm due for renewal at the end of this month, so there's not much time to figure out if I need to be switching to TekSavvy.

Somewhat offtopic - I never visited Reddit except when it was linked via posts on Hacker News, and I'd always heard complaints that HN was becoming Reddit, but finding out today that they have forums for my city and other interesting things like a fitness subforum - why did I never go there earlier?

Amazon responds. Buy directly from Amazon.com and receive a 30% credit towards your next Amazon purchase!

As a (windows) mouse user, having the tab tear off and sit right where I expect it to, directly underneath the cursor where I point it to, is desired behaviour.

I think the article intended 'secular zealotry' to mean something more like 'nonreligious zealotry' - the zealots are secular, not that the zealots are zealous about secularism. This is intended to contrast against the religious zealots referred to in the previous sentence.

Can't drop something you didn't have in the first place.

As many have argued, it's disingenuous to treat Flash and the H.264 as being equal in this argument. One of these would be implemented into the browser rather than a plugin. One of these would incur a royalty cost. One of these has viable alternatives.

Tried this last year, couldn't get through to the site until it was all over. Or rather, couldn't get through the purchase part until it was all over.