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That also is why the GRE discontinued the old analytical puzzle section, which used to be 1/3 of the exam (along with math and verbal). The scores were bimodal: Those of us who'd done a lot of logic puzzles in school got perfect scores, and those who hadn't did much worse. It turned out not to be a good indicator of anything meaningful.

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I've been using threadable for a while. In how I interact with it, it's a smarter alternative to a Mailman list and/or a more usable and comprehensive alternative to Google Groups (not a plugin). It's basically a standalone email service, and the members of a threadable group have two options: threadable can be a totally invisible layer and the email shows up in their standard inbox as usual. Or they can use the threadable interface, which is a lovely and simple way to see all the threads your group is discussing, split off new topics, create subgroups, and so on. It has many uses for project management, but I haven't interacted with that side of it as much. Perhaps others can comment on that aspect.

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13 anni fadiscuss

Thanks! Dance Dance Immolation will be there too, but we couldn't resist building something new. Funding the Cloud will help free up our other resources to get DDI up to the Playa, where it'll be part of the Charcade, a whole bunch of fiery video games.

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Absolutely.

My doctor, who is a hotshot young doctor at a hotshot medical school, impressed me by telling me she needed to look up my symptoms and then showing me what she found (and, to be fair, also referring me to an expert).

Depending on field, part of being an expert is also knowing where to look for field-specific expert information. Google is a much better search engine than the NCBI PubMed interface, but I know as a biomedical scientist that I should use PubMed or else I'll miss important research.

(Though part of being a scientist is also realizing that you're trying to understand totally new results, and google is of no use past some point. I imagine this is also true of engineers. You're building on previous work but at some point you have to move past what's been done before.)

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14 anni fadiscuss

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