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by alexholehouse 13y ago
The weird/upsetting thing is that CTO would go to the producer of a software his or her company use for free and despite having active communication lines open go behind the developer's back to have it removed from the very web
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“Why is such a basic spreadsheet function still not available?”(productforums.google.com)
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
Sounds like you're doing a very similar PhD to me - good to see other computational researchers here (despite the circumstances, so to speak...)! I'm also acutely aware that while staying in academia would be great (despite all th
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Vote seals fate of Russian Academy of Sciences(nature.com)
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
Beat me to it. This is exactly the problem - even people who believe they're helping are making generalizations or unjustified assumptions based on how women are perceived in society. This is so incredibly endemic in so many walks of l
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
So while the Business Insider story was just in tech circles I can image everyone's favourite brogrammer Pax Dickinson may have been able to casually sidestep into another sector. With it hitting NPR, I suspect this has irreversibly da
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
As good an idea as this is, how is this on the frontpage? I don't mean this is a nasty way, but with a single page which basically says, "can I access your data please?" and no explanation I can't understand who would
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
This is fantastic. Both in terms of content, but also in terms of delivery. I've been toying with ideas relating to some kind of text-book killing general publishing platform for a while, but it's not something I'll implement
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
I'm quite stupid/forgetful, so when I write code I try to do it such that some unexpected 3rd party (i.e. me in about 3 weeks time) can read through and figure out what's going on. This generally means I include a sections bo
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
The "full screen mode" is like a parody of poor user interface and false promises. That said, Outlook 365 is also bloody awful in terms of usability. Say I've sent an email to a list of people, there's no way (as far as
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Reddit skinned in MSOutlook(pcottle.github.io)
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
I posted an ASK PG [1] about this last month ago and got an angry email from (presumably) a mod. His point was totally valid - that PG 'aint go time fo' that' which is true, but I was just hoping to draw attention to it, as o
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
It wasn't anything even remotely requiring a lawyer's presence. I want to agree with you, but how do you know that (I'm making the assumption here that you're not a lawyer, which may be incorrect)? This seems like the
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
Related question: I don't have a lawyer, because, you know, not everyone just has one. If the FBI came to my house to ask questions and I said, "Friends, I'd rather not speak with you without a lawyer present - you know how
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Ubuntu forums hacked(news.slashdot.org)
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
A thing that does bother me, and signifies the extent to which what you say is true is that "talking" to the authors of these papers nearly always delivers those good insights within a few minutes that you would not get after spe
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
I am not the lay person, and I am not talking about communicating your findings to the pubic, which obviously requires an entirely different set of skills than communicating your work to fellow scientists (another problem, but one step at a
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
Slightly off topic, but I wish there was a change to how scientific papers were written (and this comment doesn't pertain to this article - it's just a general comment). For some, inexplicable reason, it sometimes feels like aut
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
The idea of getting 80%+ in college would be absurd in the UK. While we don't have a precise GPA (and there are many issues with the British secondary, tertiary and quaternary education systems, so this is definitely not a UK>US pos
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
Great story but "OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City surgery center is offering a new kind of price transparency, posting guaranteed all-inclusive surgery prices online. The move is revolutionizing medical billing in Oklahoma and around
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
I know Charlie from back in the UK - I don't always agree with his writings and ideas, but I can't deny he's one of the finest journalistic authors I've had the pleasure of reading online.
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Gmail's new advertising strategy is smart(holehouse.org)
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
This is so truly, fantastically excellent. This should be a standard system utility!
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Understanding the linux filesystem (/etc, /var, /bin, /opt etc.)(tldp.org)
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
His donation to Oxford funded some of my early postgraduate work back in 2009. I actually had an opportunity to meet with him a couple of weeks after I began the work, but not knowing who he was (or being particularly computer-history savy
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Richard Matheson dies, aged 87(bbc.co.uk)
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Richard Matheson dies, aged 87(denofgeek.com)
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Thunderbirds are gone: BAE systems 1960s project idea(economist.com)
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Ask PG: Resubmission of same article?
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by alexholehouse 13y ago
So here's a related question I've been wondering (IANAL - so hard). A number foreign blogs/companies/people have displayed outrage that, given that they're not protected by the legal framework American citizens ar

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