jamesjporter

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by jamesjporter 14y ago
lack of US PhDs? We already produce way more PhDs than the economy can absorb; if anything we should either produce less PhDs or create a better job market for them.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I would be concerned about this as well; they'd better be damn confident that the people they hellban are actually scammers.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Probably the result of someone at the publisher not being willing to pay for good graphic design. My Dad is a graphic designer who typesets a lot of books, they really do go over every page fiddling and optimizing to make it look good.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I like the idea that mistercow proposes above: use an algorithm to sample the space of possible typsettings and find one with less that some minimum amount of rivers or river length.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
FWIW I use Zotero for citation management and have found it nothing but awesome.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I believe license changes can be applied retroactively to all versions with the permission of all the copyright holders; I would assume this is what was done.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
> But producers produce products for consumers to consume. Not necessarily. You can be a producer for yourself. I think the GP is arguing that technologies like 3D printing and practices like home gardening will flourish in the near fut
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I agree with HtDP being not great. I took a majors level intro to CS class last quarter; HtDP was the text and I found it spectacularly unhelpful.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
As I understand it, Swartz believed in open access to publicly funded research, not freedom of information in a more general sense. There is a substantial distinction between the two; I don't think Aaron would have taken issue with Tufte ch
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Hell it was in the impulse buy range for me and I'm a college student! :)
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
He's analogizing DDoS attacks to the lunch counter sit ins that were used as a means of nonviolent protest during the civil right movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
This is why I try not to overtweak my computer. Sure I could rice the whole thing out, but then I'm useless on any other machine. I try to strike a happy medium where I'm reasonably productive but can still use another computer when I have
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Those are both focused exclusively on the web though. It would be cool to have something like those but for a wider community; there's more to programming than HTML/CSS/JS.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
The age limit doesn't apply if your Uni has a contract with Zipcar — many of my under 21 friends are Zipcar members . . . and its great!
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I agree. After playing with one of the $500 Surfaces, I thought, "Man I would buy this in a heartbeat if I could wipe it and install Ubuntu".
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Anyone have other recommendations for HTML5 game tutorials? There's a simple card game I'd like to make so I've been itching to learn.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
The fact that scientists have to be "always on" these days is an interesting development. Its probably largely down to the fact that the academic job market is so terrible that only those who are fanatically dedicated can succeed. In some w
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Really? Quicksilver has always felt like a natural extension of my brain. Then again I've never tried Alfred, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I remember also hearing about a company that was trying to outsource molecular cloning, but with people, not robots. Basically you sent them your DNA and told them what you wanted done and they would bust their ass to do it and send it back
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I think its important that this is coming to the FOSS world though. I agree that Mathematica/MATLAB are brilliant in this regard, but you (or your employer) has to shell out the big bucks for them, so if you want to collaborate with others
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I'm considering moving from Chicago to California for grad school and the lack of real seasons is one of a few things that's making me lean towards going out East (Boston or NYC) instead.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I would be willing to shell out top dollar for a UNIX OS that's as stable as OSX and "just works" the way OSX does but is also as customizable and hacker-friendly as Linux, even if it's closed source. I've been wondering if there's any room
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Yes, to some extent genes are mobile and do get shuffled around, but if this hypothesis were true, it would be obvious. Whole genomes don't just merge on the time scales we're talking here. If this hypothesis were true, there would be clear
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Presumably college education, as you often have a title like "professor", even though your actually day to day job is all about research.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Yes! I hate when people have a figure of some crazy bioinformatics they did that doesn't actually convey any information to me as a reader.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
I go to UChicago; that place is sort of like an eerie mystery box that nobody ever goes to or talks about. I didn't even find out about it's existence until my 3rd year here. My one friend who's been in there described the experience as rea
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
This is extremely silly. Genes that act in larval, pupal, and adult development are all mixed up together in the same chromosomes; there's no plausible way for them to have integrated in the manner suggested. Moreover, the same genes and us
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
Down for me in Chicago . . . its been a hell of a day for big web companies!
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
My chrome and gmail are both fine, U.S. Midwest, so its more complicated than that.
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by jamesjporter 14y ago
This is indeed painful. I was scraping the Pirate Bay last year for a school project, their HTML would occasionally change in subtle ways that would break my scraper for hours or days until I noticed it.

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