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The 90-second pitch(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
2 points by eykanal 12y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 12y ago
Excellent post. Even more depressing, the author didn't discuss the fact that when this young researcher—who just finished a PhD and postdoc training in a specific research area—applies for her first grant, she is effectively required
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by eykanal 12y ago
So, we recently had a bunch of articles coming out on "the fundamental insecurity of USB" [1]. How does that jive with a USB-based security key? Can't this be "flashed" like any other USB device? [1]: https:/&
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by eykanal 12y ago
The article argues pretty strongly that Uber is a horrible company, which isn't really news to anyone. I'm missing, though, the leap from that argument to the idea that (quoting the article tagline) "Sharing economy companies
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by eykanal 12y ago
While it's very chivalrous of him to not want to lawyer up, what he's describing is libel, pure and simple. This "friend" of his did something completely inappropriate, and is liable to cause significant monetary damage,
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by eykanal 12y ago
I'm guessing I'm simply not considering the target audience, but so far as I know the groups (people who communicate primarily via spreadsheets) and (people who know what an API is) have a fairly small overlap. Maybe I'm just
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by eykanal 12y ago
There is a significant relationship between willingness to invest effort and potential payoff. Spending ten minutes playing with what is essentially an online pivottable to possibly find learn an interesting but ultimately useless factoid
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by eykanal 12y ago
Replace "real" with "informative, easily interpretable, and intuitive". The point still stands.
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by eykanal 12y ago
What a horrible, horrible headline. Mary's analysis is incredibly detailed, extrememly informative, and FREE. This link-bait headline chose to ignore all the content and focus exclusively on the fact that the plots are ugly. Strangely
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by eykanal 12y ago
Am I the only one who saw this and was hoping it was an online remake of Cyan's Cosmic Osmo [1]? [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Osmo_and_the_Worlds_Beyo...
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by eykanal 13y ago
I'm not seeing this as an improvement. I'm familiar with PHP coding, and over the past few years the community has come up with a set of standards in the form of the PSR documents ( http://www.php-fig.org/psr/
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The Inestimable Value of the Posthoc Review(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
1 points by eykanal 13y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 13y ago
This is almost exactly my story as well. One point he doesn't mention is that there are many interesting problems in the "real world". Lots of academics just point to industry in general and say, "no freedom, no thanks
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by eykanal 13y ago
So, I'm a manager, and the last thing I want is to have fifteen different notifications coming to me in real-time asking me to approve one of my team member's gas receipt. I'd much rather get the batch after the trip. Not s
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by eykanal 13y ago
It's a FAKE NAME. If it's disabled, just make a new one. Hell, you could make a new account every time you log on with a random bang-on-the-keyboard password, what's the difference?
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by eykanal 13y ago
One possible reason is that the PhD in some fields can be an "easy" way to get a paying position after graduating. There are a lot of smart people graduating from undergraduate programs, and there is a general paucity of good jobs
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How to make it writing comics(spikedrewthis.tumblr.com)
2 points by eykanal 13y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 13y ago
Promises on important matters are made every day and subsequently broken. Any reason why Ars is bringing this up now?
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by eykanal 13y ago
The sad thing is that the article is correct; that is HIGH for an adjunct salary. When I finished my postdoc I applied to a few adjunct positions. The salary would have been $2100/class, which, after factoring in the time needed for pr
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Best vs. Easiest Tool For The Job, or Why I Dislike Microsoft(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
1 points by eykanal 13y ago|1 comments
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Engage your customers the MLB way(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
2 points by eykanal 13y ago|0 comments
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The Wish List(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
1 points by eykanal 13y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 13y ago
It's association risk. Coke, IBM, Citibank... name any corporation large enough to buy internet ad space at volume, and you can almost guarantee that the company in question doesn't want to be associated with pornography.
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by eykanal 13y ago
The best analogy I've heard is that a good game of Starcraft is very similar to fencing; you have to predict what your opponent will do, and react accordingly, with speed and agility. Another good comparison is chess; see where the pie
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by eykanal 13y ago
While that's something to think about, keep in mind that the level of correlation between those voxels is ridiculously high. Simply adding more voxels isn't necessarily adding useful information. Even more so, fMRI is based on the
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by eykanal 13y ago
The man missed mobile. He screwed up search. And social. And Windows Vista, and Windows 7, and Windows 8. He insulted the OEMs with the Windows Tablet, which was also a failure. He created the Zune. He even managed to screw up with Mac Offi
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by eykanal 13y ago
And for missing search. And for missing social. And for insulting OEMs. And for his failed Windows Vista launch, and Windows 7, and Windows 8. For one man, he sure has a lot of failures on his plate.
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Two years of blogging(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
2 points by eykanal 13y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 13y ago
This is what makes Munroe so awesome. It's one thing to be able to make nerd comics. It's another thing to put in the effort to make accurate time/location maps of various movies [1], or attempt to explain money with all sort
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by eykanal 13y ago
Awesome. On the "stop taking advice" idea: when I was a grad student (and postdoc), I kept notes in a personal wiki. I had a page entitled "Things Other People Have Suggested I Do". I didn't do most of them. Even mo

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