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Interesting example of a pdf which is borked in the Firefox built-in reader, the summations ("Sigmas") are vertically stretched, this not seen in Evince for example.

What, the Google maps where street-view actually worked? Don't be so old-fashioned gramps!

Ugh, NSA apologism.

Any news on when one will be able to install Windows on a machine with an existing Linux partition and not have the installer overwrite it?

The Navier-Stokes equations are also hard to solve, that does not stop fluids from obeying them.

Warning, this site uses addthis, the canvas cookie js malware.

interesting, but oddly switches to italic half-way through

I guess the author didn't try `man tr` before deciding on a name.

Bof, French does change, all of the time, and the Académie française only codifies and regularises these changes 30 years later -- it is irrelevant to the development of the language. What is diffe…

The nasty and antidemocratic behaviour of GCHQ is, at last, losing them sympathy: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/03/should_mathemati... …

Pointless machismo is tiresome.

More benches would be welcome in London, most existing benches are designed to be uncomfortable, so as to dissuade the homeless from hanging around.

paywalled

Look impressive, but 'GPS'? That'll be handy for google searches.

Hmmm, should be using en-dashes (--) not hyphens (-) for date-ranges, uses mathematical superscripting $22^nd$ and so gets incorrect fonts and spacing of the superscript, .... It's a CV, write it…

bah, I read this as 'Postgres'

Anyone know how this compares (in performance) against BuDDy?

Currently available for Windows 7 or later, 32 or 64 bit.

500 years of typographical practice has shown our species that 80 characters is about as long as a line can be before it becomes difficult to read. To see this, take a novel from your bookshelf and c…

I'll believe that Microsoft has changed when one can install Windows on a machine without it blowing away a pre-installed Linux partition.

Those hysterical screaming queens?

If a page is hosed under NoScript then just temporarily allow all scripts. You can spend a few hours building up a whitelist of hosts for your most visited sites if you can be bothered, but that'…

"write once, run away"?

I would be an interesting challenge to automatically generate XKCD graphs from real data (simplify, exaggerate, render as hand-drawn etc) in the same spirit as non-photorealistic rendering.

male/female, a legal requirement in French job postings I believe.

According to https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /opt is for "Pre-compiled, non '.deb' binary distributions", and then using the standard bin&…

Since a .deb, shouldn't this be installed into /usr rather than /opt?

The default ms-ratio used here (the golden ratio) has been criticized in recent years for being little more than wishful thinking -- see http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devl…