mattmight

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   by mattmight 16y ago

   > Yea, well, for their PhDs, Bekenstein's discovered black hole thermodynamics, Feynman came up with the path integral, and Hawking proved the singularity theorem. Yes, you can go on to be successful after a modest thesis. But you can a
2. 152.▲
   by mattmight 16y ago

   Had I been using up research funding from my advisor during those two years, he would have been expecting me to produce research papers and to contribute to the project. He probably would have booted me out and hired someone else willing to
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   by mattmight 16y ago

   This is excellent advice. I should have added this one. Perhaps this belongs under a post called "10 hard ways to fail a Ph.D." An advisor-advisee mismatch can be excruciating.
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   by mattmight 16y ago

   I almost mentioned that. I did start-ups my last year in grad school (and for the year after I graduated). It almost killed my Ph.D. Now that I'm a prof, I'm actually recruiting locals in start-ups to come get a Ph.D. with me. I feel l
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   by mattmight 16y ago

   The differences are more than US versus UK. It's more US versus Europe. I spent a semester in Ph.D. school in Denmark, and I noticed what you describe: 4 years guaranteed funding with a boot at the end. What this means is that at the end o
6. 156.▲
   by mattmight 16y ago

   I really like the term "pragmatic cynicism."
7. 157.▲
   by mattmight 16y ago

   Oh my.
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   by mattmight 16y ago

   I supervise a couple Ph.D. students working full-time jobs. It's definitely a challenge for them, and it requires immense self-discipline. Coincidentally, I just posted this morning about the three qualities of successful Ph.D. students--pe
9. 159.▲
   by mattmight 16y ago

   Or, the code could be released under the CRAPL: http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/
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    by mattmight 16y ago

    My goal with these scripts is really to prevent inappropriate use of the constructs I described. Reading the article over again, I do see how it makes it seems like I'm on a quest to ban these constructs. That's my fault for not being c
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    by mattmight 16y ago

    Under Linux, the best window manager I ever used was ion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29 It was like emacs turned into a window manager. It cut my mousing down by at least an order of magnitude. On OS X, a simple f
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    by mattmight 16y ago

    Selling my own ads seems like a lot of work. Any advice?
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    by mattmight 16y ago

    Blogging. I have lots of posts that rank well for obscure technical terms in programming languages and computer science. I have a comfortable job (I'm a prof in CS), so I don't really need the extra money, but to my surprise, I get about $3