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by hootener 13y ago
Ben Shneiderman toured my laboratory a couple of months back. He actually took the time to sit down and use and discuss some of the UI stuff I was developing as part of my PhD research. I'm sure he doesn't remember it, but those 1
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by hootener 13y ago
Or there's always the best of both worlds: http://www.duckduckgoog.com/
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by hootener 13y ago
Don Hopkins! I've read the pie menus paper more than once in my academic career, and it took this post for me to make the connection between The Sims (which I played in my youth), pie menus, and you. So, since I have the opportunity to
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by hootener 13y ago
Oh yes, and I feel you made that point. It's just my hope that you (and/or others) keep moving the conversation forward :).
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by hootener 13y ago
Thanks so much for sharing this. Like previous posters have stated, blog posts describing REAL WORLD usage examples of Docker in systems more complex than "here's a LAMP stack in Docker"* are extremely helpful at this point i
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by hootener 13y ago
"The air conditioning knob is a different shape and size from the stereo's volume knob, and located in a different place (ideally)." You've nailed it sir. Shape coding[1]. If it's good enough for F-14 fighter pilots
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by hootener 13y ago
The article doesn't bash the p-value as a statistical test specifically, more its use and interpretation by scientists over the years. You're absolutely correct about using non-parametric tests, and more scientists should be using
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by hootener 13y ago
I sometimes have to pull off tight deadlines that require me to go three or four days with only a couple hours of sleep each time (it's grad school, it sucks). Burnout for me feels like the third day of that all the time. A fatigue so
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by hootener 13y ago
Same here. I've cooked something built around bash scripts and guest-to-host sharing of source code, and I can't help but have a nagging feeling that it isn't as good or correct as it should be...or perhaps it's just tot
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by hootener 13y ago
"- It's less infrastructure-specific...." - "a very common problem with shared folders is "oops the container creates files as root but I don't have root on my mac", or "apache complains that the perm
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by hootener 13y ago
I feel your pain with JS dependency resolution and management, I have yet to get it with grunt, either. I solved that problem with RequireJS. Have you given that a shot? RequireJS is incredible when it comes to managing dependencies and org
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by hootener 13y ago
I do a lot of statistical work, but wouldn't call myself a data scientist. To that end: > I geared the original curriculum toward Python tools and resources, so I've explicitly marked when resources use other tools to teach co
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by hootener 13y ago
Sure. And if Docker was leveraged to create an easily reproduceable build environment, you'd have a fairly good chance of all that source running in that container again at a later date.
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by hootener 13y ago
Here are three instances where Docker made my life way easier: Docker as an educational tool can be pretty powerful. One of the most annoying parts of CS courses is the initial install/configure/dependency wrangling you have to do
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by hootener 13y ago
> The Ph.D. program, in our times at least, is pitched as a quid pro quo: you produce some original research, something worthwhile and of substance, to add to the sum of human knowledge, and in exchange they gain access to an academic ca
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by hootener 13y ago
Don't overthink my comment. I don't know C and have no idea how pure his intention in writing the letter may be. Despite his intent, I believe that I left the letter thinking exactly what it was designed to make me think. Therefor
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by hootener 13y ago
What's brilliant about this letter is how easily I stepped into it. C admitted to possessing the abilities to be a master manipulator and exploiter of weakness; and I still let C manipulate me into thinking exactly the way he/she
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by hootener 13y ago
I think the cards are, at least as presented on the landing page, really elegant and sharp looking. I would present my career related information this way. Constructive Criticism/ Devilishly Advocating: In agreement with root comment,
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by hootener 13y ago
"wishlists that span multiple site APIs " Sure, but not all wedding gifts come from amazon... EDIT - I stand corrected: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/universal/
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by hootener 13y ago
yeah, sorry if I gave the impression that "OMG this site NEEDS THESE FEATURES RIGHT NOW!!!" That wasn't my intent. It's legitimately a great idea and a seemingly well executed MVP (I haven't dug deeply into it yet).
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by hootener 13y ago
Knee jerk reaction: Great work. I had a similar idea floating around in my mind and it's cool to see something like it come to fruition. Incoherent Rambling: How about expanding to more than one item wishlists that span multiple site A
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by hootener 13y ago
I really don't think it's the physical process, but the kind of detailed analysis of your problem and the requisite thinking to form a solution that the described process requires. Good OO programmers do some internal version of t
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by hootener 13y ago
$600.00 is a pretty solid estimate for a DIY, autonomous, man-packable flying wing with relatively robust performance. I've done it for around $1100, excluding the cost of a laptop to run some open source flight control software, but ~