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Scopus is a huge index (unlike Web of Science), so you won't find any good journals that are not Scopus indexed.
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> The purpose of government funded research isn't to help university faculty build portfolios for professional advancement. It's to find new original knowledge about topics that are in the public interest. That goal is frustra
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They do that and have done it all the time and it's called grey literature : self-publications with dubious peer-reviewing policies, that are prone to fraud and corruption. In most cases grey literature will nowadays count against you
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> 100% of scientists have an option to publish a copy in arxiv or biorxiv. It's not happening. This is not about publishing, this is about peer-reviewed publishing. Putting something on an open Internet archive does not count as a
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> It was completely unthinkable and taboo to voice nazi positions in public in post WW2-Germany, it is even forbidden by law. But this did not irradicate Nazi thought, it just pushed it underground. That is precisely the point of these
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by 13415 8y ago
My answers only reflect my own opinions as a long time Lisper and Scheme user. Other's mileage may differ. 1. Yes , more or less. LISP used to be superior to everything else but modern languages have caught up in most areas. LISP stil
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by 13415 8y ago
The purpose of trolling and fake comments is not always to directly shift anyone's opinion. It can also be about spreading doubt and confusion by constant repetition of falsehoods, until certain topics and positions that previously wer
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by 13415 8y ago
And how would he get from the Ecuadorian embassy in London to Russia?
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by 13415 8y ago
That's very common practice. I've seen in a documentary that everyone who works at Miguel Caballero's bullet proof clothing company in Colombia has to be shot at least once while wearing one of his shirts or jackets. I tried
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by 13415 8y ago
Then again, Google's public statements might not be the best information source to check whether Google did something nefarious or not.
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by 13415 8y ago
We know from the Snowden leaks that there were direct data links between Google and the NSA. Despite their vehement denials and public outrage, I still find it hard to believe that it was possible for the NSA to install such massive surveil
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by 13415 8y ago
I personally prefer having a good GC because I need the speed of manual management in only a minuscule percentage of my code and it's much simpler to use a GC instead of constantly fiddling around with manual memory management, let alo
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by 13415 8y ago
Other than your opinion, do you have any arguments to offer? Otherwise I can just tell you my opinion as someone who works in academia: It makes perfect sense, and so far I haven't met anyone who was able to offer any better alternativ
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by 13415 8y ago
Arbitrary examples off the top of my head: lack of references, no generics, verbose error handling, a few quirks (e.g. need to write (*slice)[i]), inconsistencies like new vs. make, interface{} hacks where there could be a zero-cost abstrac
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by 13415 8y ago
I've learned a bit of Rust recently but then started programming in Go. Now that I've learned a decent amount of Go I'm thinking of giving Rust another try, because Go has so many obvious weaknesses. However, I'm still t
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by 13415 8y ago
I personally prefer fully object-oriented languages, as long as it's an option and not a must like in Java. Replacements for OOP are just another fad, in twenty years from now people will come up with new fancy object-oriented language
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by 13415 8y ago
Maybe you're right, I'm not fully convinced. I mentioned a full truth table/decision tree because a long time ago these gave me the insight why switching is the right solution in the standard formulation of the problem, and
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No method on earth necessarily gives you the right answer to a problem. You first have to represent the problem correctly, of course. Check out Scenario 2 here https://medium.com/@ProfessorF/visualizing-the-solution-to-
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It's better to switch doors according to any statistical method, whether you're a frequentist or Bayesian does not matter. You can also show that you should switch doors by making an exhaustive truth table, by writing a computer
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by 13415 8y ago
I don't buy this, things like that are not a matter of "perspective". 1. A language that has an optional GC and a borrow-checker is better than a language that only has a GC or borrow-checker. 2. A language that has scalar su
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by 13415 8y ago
I've tried brown noise a while ago and it certainly didn't work for me. Being stressed out by a constant background noise is not the same as silence.
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That's totally ridiculous and not even worth discussing. Unless you're a full-blown Nazi, terrorist, or communist and your main goal in life is trolling and spreading hatred, you'll have zero problems with any of the above es
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by 13415 8y ago
That's because the people who argue most fervently for "national culture" are at the same time often strongly opposed to contemporary culture (arts, poetry, classical music, etc.) and don't produce anything of cultural v
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by 13415 8y ago
I agree in hindsight that my comment was unhelpful. The anectdote about the "gassing the jews" thread was true, that was in 2016, but instead of bashing on breitbart I should have emphasized more that there are plenty of more legi
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Unfortunately many conspiracy theorists suffer from schizophrenia, a tendency to believe in conspiracies is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia, and the Breitbart site comments section is full of conspiracy theories - or at least used to b
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by 13415 8y ago
If it's something you can download, double-click, and it instantly works, then it might have a future. Any additional step makes success less likely.
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by 13415 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by "most used". Would you include copy&paste duplicates? I doubt that JavaScript remains #1 when you filter these out.
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Instead of popularity indices, I'd like to see the percentage that a language+framework takes in applications of a certain type, such as desktop applications, client-side web applications, server applications, data crunching, embedded,
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No, it's an inference to the best explanation where for various reason it is thought that physics does not offer the best explanation. If the physical explanation is not even sufficient, then it cannot be the best explanation. That&#x2
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That's a good point, if you create only few green threads the overhead of dealing with them should nullify any advantage of lightweight scheduling and creating. Languages like Go like to advertise that you easily spawn millions of Gree

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