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by johnminter 7y ago
How much of that is due to automation? Profit margins are also important, especially in a global economy.
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by johnminter 7y ago
I have a current Office 365 license. I ran into a problem trying to open some old Excel files from a project I did in 1999 and 2000. These workbooks contained some valid VBA modules I had written. Excel's security model would not let m
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by johnminter 7y ago
I find DST to be a major annoyance with no real benefit. The "spring forward" phase is the more difficult adjustment for me.
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by johnminter 7y ago
This is where measurements by multiple groups come in. I would point out that in 2019 the basis for the SI base units were changed because of issues with the standards. The international community - lead primarialy by NIST and their counter
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by johnminter 7y ago
I, too, am a fan of R-markdown for this purpose
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by johnminter 7y ago
1. Github encourages us to specify a license on our repositories. This specifies the expectations a user can have. 2. There is a mechanism for people to participate - a pull request. The owner has the right to decide if this is consistent w
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by johnminter 7y ago
Genre is important here. One's choice of language when playfully communicating with friends will be different than the language used to communicate in a legal brief or a scientific paper. We adapt our language to our audience and the o
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by johnminter 7y ago
Senior scientists in corporate R&D often require local admin access as well. The image analysis and spectum simulation programs I needed to run and keep updated were not on the radar for our corporate IT folks. They were very good at wh
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by johnminter 7y ago
I'm still using mine. I'm seriosly thinking of moving to Linux when it is no longer working or supported by the OS. And that MagSafe adapter has saved my bacon on multiple occasions...
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by johnminter 7y ago
I, too, would like the option of a thicker laptop and my beloved magnetic break-away power connector. That has saved my bacon many times when my foot caught the cord. I assume that wold permit a thicker battery with a longer lifetime...
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by johnminter 8y ago
In addition, there are lead issues in older military housing on bases like Ft. Meade. My youngest granddaughter had a false positive on her test; several other children were not so lucky. The good news is that the top brass at the highest l
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by johnminter 8y ago
The parent article reminded me of a quote from Gordon Fee, a professor of Theology, who had seen many disagreements during his career. Fee put it like this [1]: A student is not bound to reproduce slavishly the interpretations of others, bu
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by johnminter 8y ago
This is an important distinction. CBS reports [1] that a $500 emergency expense would put most Americans in debt. Our consumer-focused economy with easy credit lures people into purchases that they cannot afford. Many spend without careful
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by johnminter 8y ago
I, too, have been a long-time Sublime Text user. I really liked the add-on packages. The basic Package Control installs but does not show up in the menu like before. I have found ways to install a few key packages manually. It has been my
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by johnminter 8y ago
Quantum Leap, here we come (grin)
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by johnminter 8y ago
The content on the Internet ranges from "free" to "paid subscription": 1) We have volunteers that curate content and they have limited time. We need to be gracious, courteous, and thankful for their effort. 2) Businesses
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by johnminter 8y ago
That worked for my wife and me as well :). To be fair, my advisor went on sabbatical for a year and I helped manage the group while he was gone. I learned a lot... My wife was an organic chemist working with some nasty monomers (not good fo
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by johnminter 8y ago
The Software Carpentry team has stressed the usefulness of shell scripting for years [1]. One nice feature is that the scripts are easily tested as they are developed. For example, biologists find this approach helpful for constructing larg
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by johnminter 8y ago
I could understand a coverage rotation, but having to be available 24/7/365 is basically being treated as a slave. He might not win his case - and unless his attorney is working on a percentage of a win - he should get a second op
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by johnminter 8y ago
I'm definitely a Clydesdale. We just called it "old, fat, and slow" :)
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by johnminter 8y ago
In many US companies, severance increases with years of service. In the case of my former employer, as the company's balance sheet got worse, successive downsizings provided fewer benefits. There were legal protections that slowed the
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by johnminter 8y ago
You are correct - the company is not your friend. Senior management has a responsibility to look out for the shareholders' interests. They are also human and look out for their own interests. That said, treating people the way you want
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by johnminter 8y ago
I suspect that the useful lifetime of running shoes depends upon the runner's weight. As a heavier runner/walker trying to control my weight, I found the 500 mi/pair to be reasonable when running. I could walk longer in them
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by johnminter 8y ago
Yes. Technology and business environments change. Students will only succeed if they become self-motivated, life-long learners who can identify the key problems/technology that their employers need solved/developed and rapidly bui
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by johnminter 8y ago
There is a recent development that provides a much smaller subset: TinyTex by Yihui Xie (who has made many contributions to Rmarkdown). See https://yihui.name/tinytex/ One can add just the packages you need and it can
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by johnminter 8y ago
When my wife and I were in grad school, we got 2 kittens. They really entertained each other. Our next door neighbor had a single older cat. The cat had a weight problem so they got a book, "How to exercise your cat". As I recall,
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by johnminter 8y ago
Your comment reminds me of starting work in the Research Laboratories of a once iconic company almost 40 years ago. The lab had a chair with stick-on labels on the back which read, "SARTUN". I was puzzled and after I got to know m
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by johnminter 8y ago
I think the problem is better framed as focusing on consistently making the best choices we can given information we have and the situation we face. Yes, we make these choices in a community and our choices impact one another. We should se
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by johnminter 8y ago
Shifting the clocks is an idea that adds a lot of cost and questionable benefits. We have the daylight hours that our location's geography provides. Why not simply set the time zone boundaries such that the location is closest to havin
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by johnminter 8y ago
RStudio with using Rmarkdown is also popular. Both workflows are language agnostic.

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