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From big to small, Spring Deep Sky Objects:

	M44: The Beehive Cluster, Praesepe, or Crib (NGC 2632): 95'
	
	M41: Open cluster in the Canis Major constellation: 38'
	
	M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy (NGC 5457) Face-on spiral galaxy: 29' x 27'
	
	M81: Magnificent spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. Its apparent diameter is whopping 27 x 14 arcminutes
	

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Success and downward slopes:

Is it possible to recover from a downward slope?
	A V-shaped recovery is unlikely.

downward trends: http://www.ta-stl.com/downward-and-upward-trends-from-google/

Google Trends
stagnation
business

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Quotes about Research

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
	Wilson Mizner

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
	Anatole France

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
	Samuel Johnson

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oftheday.org:
 
* APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
* AAPOD2: http://www.aapodx2.com/
* Earth Science Picture of the Day: http://epod.usra.edu/
* LPOD: https://lpod.wikispaces.com/
* Astronomy Sketch of the Day: ASOD: http://www.asod.info/

* Joke of the day: http://www.laughfactory.com/jokes/joke-of-the-day
* Quote of the day: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes_of_the_day.html

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php hashtag splitter / what does a given hashtag stand for? / hashtag segmentation algorithm

This should be a 3 tier process:
1.- Using uppercase traces: #BarackObama => Barack Obama
2.- Querying a populated knowledge base or corpus of context such as obloop.com or first-thoughts.org or ritetag.com
3.- Using an English dictionary and figuring out its word composition: #socialmedia => social media

To take into account:
#nothere or #alwaysagain can be splited into multiple semantically correct segmentations.

mattes

if _, err := os.Stat("/path/to/whatever"); os.IsNotExist(err) {
	// path/to/whatever does not exist
}

if _, err := os.Stat("/path/to/whatever"); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
	// path/to/whatever exists
}