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Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called

Police in Allen Parish, Louisiana, searched a student’s home after a group of high-schoolers discussed how the square-root sign could look like a gun.

Click to view the original at miamiherald.com

Hasnain says:

This whole story is sad.

Additional gem in the article:

> Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

... how does the article writer not know how to explain what a square root is.

Posted on 2018-02-24T00:17:31+0000

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BYTEPATH #0 - Introduction · Issue #30 · SSYGEN/blog

Introduction This tutorial series will cover the creation of a complete game with Lua and LÖVE. It's aimed at programmers who have some experience but are just starting out with game development, o...

Click to view the original at github.com

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Lessons learned while developing Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition

In late 2016 I began helping Forgotten Empires on Age 1 DE , a UWP app shipping in the Windows Store on Feb 20th. I only helped occasionall...

Click to view the original at richg42.blogspot.com

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Instantly Improve Your Writing with These 11 Editing Tools - NY Book Editors

What are the best tools for improving editing? In this post, we’re looking at 11 of them. Use these tools to tighten up your work.

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Hasnain says:

Bookmarking for (near) future use.

Has anyone used any of these? I'm looking for something that can help me edit beyond what I can easily do manually

Posted on 2018-02-15T15:50:46+0000

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Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

Click to view the original at wired.com

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State launches Aetna probe after stunning admission

California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients' records when deciding whether to approve or deny care.

Click to view the original at cnn.com

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