gtuckerkellogg

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by gtuckerkellogg 11y ago
My current system is emacs org-mode for my inbox and all computer-based action lists, and Todoist for anything I need to carry with me. Since much of my work is done in emacs, org-mode makes the most sense for me. But honestly, the GTD eco
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by gtuckerkellogg 11y ago
I was on an America West flight to Phoenix in 1999 when David Allen sat next to me. The passenger compartment was bare bones -- no overhead vents, for example -- and I was in a pissy mood. Allen was not. He immediately struck me as the m
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by gtuckerkellogg 11y ago
It (and the book on which it is based) are amazing. Virtually every older applied mathematician has a copy of the original Abramowitz and Stegun, which was supported by the National Bureau of Standards, prior to NIST. The successor ( http
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by gtuckerkellogg 11y ago
As good as that is, see this: http://dlmf.nist.gov/ , the online companion to the truly epic NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, itself the modern successor to Abramowitz and Stegun.
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by gtuckerkellogg 12y ago
I can see one use case for this family of tools: if the same script could generate either crontab files or launchd agents, so it could generate scheduling files for MacOSX, where crontab is discouraged.
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by gtuckerkellogg 12y ago
From the review, this book seems like a rehash of Taubes' two excellent and well researched books on the same topics. Taubes was the first to make the broad historical connections that also seem central to this book. Even the book ti
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by gtuckerkellogg 13y ago
Obviously, Dover can live where he chooses, and like the places he chooses. I don't begrudge him his preferences. But the shallow armchair-quarterbacking from someone who has clearly made no serious effort to have a substantive exper
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by gtuckerkellogg 13y ago
I've learned to speak Mandarin, but not Malay. I can read and write enough to read the Chinese newspaper and sing karaoke. It's helpful: it breaks down a lot of cultural barriers, and makes chatting with cab drivers more fun. It
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by gtuckerkellogg 13y ago
I'm an American who has lived in Singapore for almost nine years, in two very different jobs, in two very different parts of the city-state. Singapore has a lot of challenges, but the oversimplifications and generalisations in this gl
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by gtuckerkellogg 13y ago
Everything I've read from folks at Mendeley misses the point of the disgust. Most people are not concerned about Mendeley going away, or about development stopping, or about new features not being added. Of course you're continuing to bui
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by gtuckerkellogg 14y ago
Those <$200 USD suits made in Thailand are unlikely to be top shelf. There is a huge business in southeast asia on rapid turnaround custom suits. It's not targeting the same market as real bespoke tailoring. I have a weakness for besp