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by bocklund 8y ago
Materials science?
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by bocklund 8y ago
Usually Masters degrees require Bachelors first. Maybe you mean Associates?
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by bocklund 8y ago
> We decided to adopt “/e/” as a textual representation for the symbol of “my data is MY data” Discussion appears to be here: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/leaving-apple-and-google-e... I apprecia
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Google to Kill Its Inbox App in Favor of Gmail in March 2019(fortune.com)
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by bocklund 8y ago
> I've had people tell me that they would love to write a book, but, well, the existing tools are not sufficient enough. That’s hilarious. Humans were hand writing books on paper and giving them to other humans to hand write copies.
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by bocklund 8y ago
I think “mobile” was supposed to refer to laptops, not phones or tablets.
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by bocklund 8y ago
Specific tags are good to carve out communities as they really are in academia. I work in materials science, which there is a tag for, but I work in a super narrow slice of materials (it’s a broad field) and I imagine many others are the sa
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by bocklund 8y ago
One piece of feedback I have is to be careful with tagging. What is physics to a biologist [1] is probably not physics to a physicist. If you want communities to build around this hub, then you need to be careful about flooding a small comm
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by bocklund 8y ago
> as long as it is a task that involves a lot of "brute facts" of some sort. I want to use Anki so badly. I have bought the app on iOS ($25), but I haven't been able to get it to stick. I think the hardest part is to disti
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by bocklund 8y ago
I have the Das one. I think the key height makes up for the positioning. I didn't even notice this when I started using the keyboard and I have no problem switching between the two. It's a great keyboard. If that's the only t
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by bocklund 8y ago
Really cool. Why did you choose home on the right and end on the left?
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by bocklund 8y ago
> 3. Don't try to accomodate "non-technical" users performing intrinsically technical tasks. There's no point creating a "friendly" DSL over HTML and CSS if the people authoring in the DSL still require an i
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by bocklund 8y ago
In my experience, most people are too afraid to enter the initial `?` in the command line for fear of breaking something. I imagine many would be afraid to do anything with the rench for the same reason. Also, people new to programming and
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by bocklund 8y ago
I heard a good set of definitions. Data science: observing trends in data Machine learning: humans develop models that are fit to data to make predictions AI: Computers make modeling decisions entirely autonomously. No human input. Dump dat
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by bocklund 8y ago
Alternatively `bar[baz] = bar.get(baz, 0) + 1` One line and no error checking. But the OP was probably just illustrating a basic example where you might have some more intense logic
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by bocklund 8y ago
One thing that seems strange to me is that the cost of living is high, but so many things we buy are priced the same. No matter how high cost of living is, a MacBook Pro starts at the same price whether you’re making a measly 100k in the Ba
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by bocklund 8y ago
Possibly related to the Peter Principle[1], where people are promoted until they reach a position where they are incompetent. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by bocklund 8y ago
> When you get stuck on something or don't understand it, make a note of it and move on to another topic. You'll have plenty to look at anyway. What I tell people is that they should try to figure it out themselves. If they get
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by bocklund 8y ago
> It’s very hard to understand an unfamiliar codevase. I agree - the high level design and stuff is hard. But being a user and having the code allows you to document 1. Function level documentation including inputs, outputs. Even if you
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by bocklund 8y ago
One of the keys to learning is making students engage in the material and to fix their mistakes. Computers are uniquely able to give individual, rapid feedback. Even at the advanced level it would be really cool for students to have access
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by bocklund 8y ago
FWIW, this has gotten better. It used to be that you could only use the Xcode simulator when developing iOS apps and had to have the $99 developer account to put apps on real provisioned devices. Now you only need to pay to put the app on t
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by bocklund 9y ago
Yeah. I usually just use vanilla vi/vim on any servers I remote in on and for small couple line edits locally. Everything else in SublimeText or PyCharm. One reason I moved to emacs in the first place is that vim plugins hardly ever wo
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by bocklund 9y ago
I forgot about Magic. I almost want to have emacs open in parallel just to have my projects open in Magit. You never have to tweak it and it’s more effective than anything else.
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by bocklund 9y ago
I did the same thing and stuck with it for a year. In the last couple months I decided that I needed to stop tweaking every last thing and wasting so much time and compromise by using the tools that allow me to be the most productive. I dro
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by bocklund 9y ago
Seems really easy if you have sputtering equipment, which has been around for awhile. Unless by almost everyone you mean garage hobbyists.
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by bocklund 9y ago
In Python, the Jupyter notebook kernels are based on IPython which has some magic commands for pdb debugging hooks. If you want more then that, someone (maybe you) will build an extension at some point.
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by bocklund 9y ago
Apple is forcing devs to support their customers. I wish more companies were like Apple.
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by bocklund 9y ago
I think the point of the quote is that the majority of rapists are men, but the majority of men aren’t rapists. The original quote was from someone who felt like they were in a male hostile situation. Unfortunately, I don’t really have a so
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by bocklund 9y ago
It has been this way even before the current climate. I think it’s more a gender roles thing. Women are seen culturally as caretakers and pre-K and K “education” has a significant babysitting/caretaking role.
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by bocklund 9y ago
People have told me this, but it seems fruitless for me to get free months for a service I am unhappy with. Instead I recently cancelled my subscription.

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