IgniteTheSun

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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Also, it seems like modern web designs (templates?) require a picture for every entry. How many bulleted lists of titles/links do you see on web pages anymore? Now each bullet point would be a complete entry with a picture and the tit
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
'''UI:s can usually be made prettier (which usually just means "reflecting current design trends") while still retaining their functionality (even if it requires a complete rewrite behind the scenes).'&#x
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
"The fact you could search for the exact article title in the old version and never find it says a lot." This implies the need for server-level improvements, not changes to the user interface.
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
Given so much discussion over the years and the fact that there were probably a lot of searches for alternatives, one has to think they probably know about it but just don't care. Why wouldn't they care? Their goals must have shi
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
I've also seen many a perfectly functional website redesigned and changed because it was thought to be too reminiscent of the 1990s web. I use PubMed a lot - in the case of this redesign, I don't see any real advantages to the red
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by IgniteTheSun 6y ago
I only discovered the existence of this company from this thread - thank you so much for making these. I wish there was a true clone of the HP 48G calculator. HP stopped making the 48G series years ago, and I now handle mine with kids glov
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
I've seen the current national debt situation compared to the U.S. national debt situation following WW2 a number of times (e.g., national debt to GDP ratios), but there is a key difference between now and the past: past episodes of ra
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
I really like this analogy. The question you were responding to has been asked - in one form or another - so many times on this thread that its clear that those developing software and business tools are completely out of touch with users
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
This has to be my favorite story on this topic today. Triumph and tragedy in the same instance - tragedy that the person mentioned didn't learn how to use Access properly and triumph in that the person overcame, adapted, and innovated
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree - Thunderbird is awesome, one of my favorite programs out of the ones I use daily, and has worked well for me for over a decade. I know of no alternative that is suitable for me. While there is a bit of room for impro
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
Control-u shows the message source - you can see the email address there without opening the mail. (For a little bit of security when opening an email, one can also turn javascript off in Thunderbird. I've never seen why anyone would
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
Why EdX and not OpenCourseWare (OCW)? Before Coursera, a lot was freely available without having to go through the agreements and overhead required to access via a MOOC like EdX. Harvard and UC Berkeley used to have an excellent OCW sites
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
Microsoft Word tried to compete with it in the 1990s with a feature called "reveal formats" that was - in my opinion - a very poor imitation of it.
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
I don't think it was actually that long ago for law offices. WordPerfect was still a player amongst the general population even at the end of the 1990s, law offices held on for much longer. Complex documents were handled much better
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by IgniteTheSun 7y ago
I consider the version of WordPerfect for Dos that I was using in 1993 to be far superior to any other word processing system that I have ever used, bar none - and I have tried a lot of word processors over the years. WordPerfect was not m
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by IgniteTheSun 8y ago
There is also a games version with quite a few games.
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by IgniteTheSun 8y ago
This book has a lot of very interesting applications and seems to cover information not normally found in first books on Linear Algebra (e.g., makes use of calculus, Taylor series, etc) and the authors are EEs, not mathematicians. It doesn
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by IgniteTheSun 8y ago
I went to the site with javascript turned off and had a good experience. Sadly, the web has degraded to the point that I no longer think it a good idea to turn javascript on for any but the most trusted sites.
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by IgniteTheSun 8y ago
For the times that you mention that you currently use Jupyter, how is it better than simply randomly selecting a small subset of data at the beginning and then writing your code in a full featured IDE with debugging functionality (including
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by IgniteTheSun 8y ago
"I was in a bank yesterday, and saw the same thing. They had a person from their mortgage department approaching customers and informing them that they had 0 down loans available." Considering that home sales volume has dropped a
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by IgniteTheSun 8y ago
Relevant xkcd comic: https://www.xkcd.com/356/
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China to crack down on fraud in scientific research(scmp.com)
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by IgniteTheSun 9y ago
With the exception of a couple of sites, I rarely turn on javascript. (There are a few sites where the homepage will have just show something like "turn javascript on to see this site"; I just take that as an invitation to leave t
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by IgniteTheSun 9y ago
This may end up repeating the mistakes of a decade or two ago: after a business leader gets two requests rejected, they are very unlikely to go back with a third request - they will simply outsource every future request. Soon the IT depart
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by IgniteTheSun 9y ago
We do have a good name for it: Six Sigma Green Belt.
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by IgniteTheSun 9y ago
In the old days, grants and scholarships were distinct programs within universities with no overlap: * Grants = need based to enable students who needed financial help. * Scholarship = merit based to attract the best students When did this
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by IgniteTheSun 13y ago
Back in the '80s, TSV was the standard way to work with data for us - and for many years Lotus, Quattro Pro and Excel (when it came out) could easily save directly to TSV and open TSV without problems. Don't know why Excel and Win
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by IgniteTheSun 13y ago
Even more so: http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/
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by IgniteTheSun 14y ago
Edit: reread my post again: just to be clear, I do use a number of plug-ins, but don't think it makes sense to require plug-ins for such basic security related items as turning off scripting or javascript, or for turning off functionality
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by IgniteTheSun 14y ago
This book [1] also goes through a quite a few examples of power law distributions. It also goes through a large number of examples of random walks and the associated concept of Lévy flights [2]. [1] Barabási, Albert-László (2010). Burst

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