$1million and $300k - that's a very small percentage of money out of the estimated $1billion each spend. And what is this digital consulting anyway? Is that what they are paying for facebook ads?

It seems like no one simply bothered doing it before him because everything is done much easier numerically. And you can do a lot more with numerical integration (account better for the environment) than this one specific case of the problem could ever handle.

or every bit of news about solar arrays is pretty much the same - better efficiency, lower cost. I'm getting tired of reading the same thing every week.

That's exactly what I'm thinking. I just can't believe how many people have been mislead into buying this stock. Well, at least it frees up the money of the investors so they can invest in some other companies.

I sometimes wonder what these people will do once the reverse is true.

Social benefits of oxygen outweigh the risks while for meth it's not true.

It would be interesting to see how many of us started out wanting to make a game/some graphics demo and then learning how to do it compared to some other motivation for learning programming. I started out that way myself.

My 17" doesn't have a numeric keypad, not even space for one. Maybe you meant 19"

Facebook going public has freed the money of those who have invested in it before it went public. Now these people will have to invest that money again and these imaginary dollars will probably go to high-tech startups again. And I don't believe Silicon Valley is about science, but rather about technologies that make our lives easier. Advanced science has always been and will be done at universities or very large companies.

Either you keep on changing and moving forward or you drown in the competition. At least they are trying to do something to differentiate themselves. Your response is typical for a person who thinks that everything is good enough already and there is no need for change.

You don't come out of the basement very often, do you?

Nice to see Alice and Bob finally making friends with Victor.

And it was just that: a web-comic turned into a movie. It felt like a lot jokes from the comic strips trying to be linked together by a poor story. I'm a PhD student myself, but I hardly ever found it funny, just lots of overused cliches about students. I don't think a lot of people in the audience liked it too. It's not THAT bad, but it's not something I'd ever watch again or recommend.

Another proof that US is run by jews who want Iran gone.

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~banach/COMP39112.Info/index.html A course at University of Manchester on Quantum Computing. The lecture notes are all there. It's a course I took myself as an undergraduate.