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Natural numbers need not be in scope of intuition. Imagine a diffuse intelligence formed in a fluid (such a thing is at least imaginable), it has no fingers, it recognises no individual things, not e…

Finding your direction is hard, usually at University you have broad range of topics at the start, then towards the end of the course you have an idea of where to go next. I would suggest looking at M…

In general, it is better to ask permission. To see this, try helping yourself to someone else's chips in Glasgow on a Saturday night.

Reject it. I've done it a few times, there was a fuss, there was a discussion, it got sorted out. At the same time I've had a couple rejected (due to not adopting the reviewer's preferr…

That is the (build) circular dependency. OK if you are happy "downloading jars", but not if you are packaging for Debian: check the dates on this discussion https://bugs.debian.or…

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/simple-build-tool/Wj... …

sbt has a circular dependency

Agreed, though sometimes "the man with a hammer" has just run out of ideas and then DL gives you an inefficient and expensive half-solution (which is better than nothing). Same thing happen…

Do you have a link for the Oracle consultant site? I'm intrigued ..

This could be helpful for post-Brexit British devs ...

... but please take it off when you get on the Tube/Metro/whatever, every sodding day I'm bashed by ignorant twats with laptop backpacks

Fantastic machines, even better Linuxed-up :-)

Sheffield was actually just like that in the early 80s (but with more hippies).

We should send missionaries.

Scènes de ménages, very funny, lots of slang and real-life usage.

Get films in the language and watch them with subtitles (in that language). Read novels as soon as you can. This is hard to start off with, stopping every couple of lines to look up a word, once you g…

I mean: the independent variable is 2d and the dependent is 1d, like f(x, y), that's 3d data. By 2d I mean a pie-chart, which you _can_ display in 3d (by making a "thick pie"), but it …

I tried 3.1 for a couple of weeks and thought is was OK but not great, then I wanted to install TeX (emTeX) and didn't have the disk space for both, so back to DOS. By the time I could afford a …

If the data is 3d, no objection. If the data is 2d then a 3d plot is redundant, usually ugly and prone to mislead (see "How to lie with statistics" and anything by Tufte).

... but where is the link to the paper (or implementation)?

Like this? http://tristen.ca/hcl-picker/#/hlc/6/1/20313E/EFEE68 …

Documentation has a cost, and a risk. It must be maintained when the code changes, if not one deceives future developers and increase the chance of bugs. Ideally the code itself should be documentat…

Parmentier convinced a suspicious French public of the benefits of potatoes by surrounding them by armed guards. http://www.factfiend.com/man-convinced-everyone-potatoes-val... …

Sartre's "Nausea", which demonstrates the pointless nothingness of life, so one should not get too stressed out at work because Frank doesn't like your indentation style but that&#…

It infringes on my x^2 + y^2 = 1 patent, as does the letter 'o'.

Scottish independence in 2 years, a 10 year recession for what's left of the UK, a 3rd ground war in Europe within 20 years.

Of course you can execute your own code, you just send a National Security Letter to Intel; or did you mean "you can't execute your own code unless you're the NSA"?

The matplotlib palettes are available in several formats at cpt-city http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/mpl/index.html (disclosure, I am the site maintainer)…