BellsOnSunday

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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
It's a name which is confusing and difficult to search - almost as bad as calling the (Haskell) build tool 'stack', but with added negative connotations.
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
> The UK is a net payer to the EU This is true in all areas except research funding. That's because researchers can take part in EU-funded projects (e.g. Horizon 2020) where the funding was awarded to a multi-national project team a
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
It wasn't a general election and I didn't vote for either of the sides. If "Leave" (as if that were one organisation) said "it" was going to do something, how could that be guaranteed, unless they were able to
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
> The native working class are subterfuged for the non native working class Subterfuged isn't the right word there but I'm not sure what is -- "passed over"? There has been so much snobbery about Leave voters. I find
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
Yes, and there is an appendix on gdb in the Bartlett book which will get OP started.
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
Sounds like a great idea if you want to visit a war-torn area to make a protest about sexism and Sharia, not to mention risk getting mixed up in an international incident or worse. Not so much if you want to run a hackathon which actually i
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
> sild is herring in Norwegian And in English!
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
Wariness and a generally circumspect attitude to what is revealed predominate in the relationships between workers and bosses in workplaces like that. At least, that's in my limited personal experience of working in factories, big post
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
When it comes to being examined there are also the prerequisites to advancing the state of the art, which include demonstrating you've learned how to do research and have deep critical knowledge of the field you're working in (so
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
> Serve the time and irrespective of the results they give you a degree I don't know what you are basing that on and maybe you've had a bad experience with this but it isn't true in my experience (which is of hav
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by BellsOnSunday 10y ago
Most British people have never heard of those two but Attenborough is about as recognisable as the Queen and with far more positive associations. He has been on the telly since the 1950s and his broadcasting is part of the shared culture, l
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
Why not just use AUCTeX?
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
TIL MIT graduates quite frequently (from the sound of it) go on to work in tech support. Does it pay well enough to make sense as the outcome of what must be the most expensive higher education in the world?
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
It's not a stretch at all, it's true that he invented that particular technology. Nobody said he invented the idea of passing a message from one place/person to another.
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
I don't think frisson is that unusual, or that it means the same thing as "gives me the chills" -- the latter implies that you're frightened, IMO.
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
No accounting for taste but you have got a peculiar sense of humour if that makes you laugh. Give me Professor Stanley Unwin any day.
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
My point was that there are exceptions to the rule. I don't think the exceptions (scientists with, generally speaking, open minds who pass these habits on to students) are as rare as people reading Kuhn might think. I don't think
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
Unless you want to put the word some in there your hypothesis/belief is easy to falsify/repudiate.
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
Because being listened to in a reddit discussion isn't a right that anyone has and not having it doesn't hold anyone back in any way. My views wouldn't go down well on a religious forum. Am I bothered? Do I look bothered?
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
It depends on the topic of the discussion, I'd have thought - it might be Hands up who believes in God .
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
I was brought up amongst and by religious people too, so I don't automatically assume people are stupid for having beliefs. But I'm aware that is really just a rhetorical position on my part, and when faced with someone who claims
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
I don't recognise the prejudice against practical skills in my neck of the woods (CS dept in a UK university) but religious colleagues are quietly looked down upon and sometimes mocked. (Not that there are many of them.) I try as hard
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
> When the victorious Athenian generals returned home, the citizens voted to execute them for failing to rescue these [stranded Athenian] soldiers. Tough crowd.
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
Nobody ever fought over Rockall.
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
It doesn't sound like Sacks had a "life-long enjoyment of this area of mathematics" from the article: > Sacks mentions another algorithm to test numbers for > primeness. But his description only shows that he has no &gt
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
The article is about people who use things like wordpress and maybe write little plugins for them, rather than designing the frameworks in the first place. Those types of work are, undeniably, very different, one common analogy being the di
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by BellsOnSunday 11y ago
I got: > By the way, which country do you inhabit (or which United States state)? > England. > I don't have a good sense of navigation, so I don't know exactly where you live, but it seems to be Where I Li
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by BellsOnSunday 12y ago
> If you're really lucky and you're top of your field you can hit assistant professor by 30-35 in the UK. This role doesn't really exist on the UK, the equivalent is that of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. I think you'
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
> I think if you can't explain what are you doing in general terms in 30 seconds to a layman you probably don't really understand what you are doing. Often repeated and attributed (apocryphally?) to Einstein but has never been
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by BellsOnSunday 13y ago
Comparing > There was only one emotion he showed when I revealed I knew, and it was terror. Deep, deep terror he was struggling to conceal. with > I must admit the "fear" I thought I detected was subtle at best you seem to h

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