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by nagrom 16y ago
I've found that with shoes, you really get what you pay for in terms of comfort. There's a world of difference between shoes that cost $50 and those that cost $100. There's a big gap again to those that cost $150. The leather is much more s
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by nagrom 16y ago
I guess I'm just confused now. What would you wear that is stylish and professional that is not a suit or a derivative thereof (collared shirt, wool/linen trousers)? You ruled out about 90% of a professional's wardrobe, as I see it. When at
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by nagrom 16y ago
I'm a research scientist who wears a suit and doesn't understand your attitude. I don't wear a suit to cover up any lack of ability, I wear a suit because it's very comfortable, extremely convenient (lots of pockets!) and means that I don't
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by nagrom 16y ago
I asked Charlie about that once on his blog and got grimaced at, textually - I think he gets that question a lot. Later on he published a set of magazine-length articles on his blog on the work that goes into the publication of a book. Star
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by nagrom 16y ago
The inflation in spending is what I was addressing. That second link shows that professorial salaries are one of the slower-increasing expenditures in a university's budget very nicely :-)
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On the other hand, you get a lot of people doing crazy amounts of work for little pay in order to get tenure. If you abolished the tenure system, there is no chance at all that the majority of current scientists would stay in the field - th
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by nagrom 16y ago
"an HTC representative let slip" Do PR people really let things 'slip'? To let something slip is usually indicative of an accidental giveaway. If a PR person tells a tablet-oriented site that HTC are working on a tablet too, surely this is
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by nagrom 16y ago
If this is just a one off job, I would guess that running sort -u $FILE will take less time than writing some specific software for the purpose. Of course, if you want to learn hadoop then go for it. But it's probably more practical just to
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by nagrom 16y ago
That could have multiple causes. Often, if your parents have achieved a lot academically, you will palce more weight on that aspect of your life. You'll get better grades and you'll be more likely to become an academic yourself. Since we're
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by nagrom 16y ago
I'm not sure why you are surprised. Huge parts of the study of Law is the study of oratory, and that's to what Godwin's Lax refers. Given that the internet must be amongst the most interesting places for a lawyer to be involved, I'm actuall
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by nagrom 16y ago
I agree that doing a master's is the best financial investment right now and can be a good way of learning something a bit more detailed and focused than undergrad. But I think that even a master's won't achieve what the OP wants. (S?)He se
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by nagrom 16y ago
I did it because I had a degree aged 20, and my options were a PhD including international travel, freedom and the chance to stay (nominally) at Uni - or take a general management job or jump into a consultancy. I lacked imagination ;-) If
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by nagrom 16y ago
This sounds harsh, but I'd rather be honest and risk that. I have a PhD in physics and work supervising doctoral students and early stage post docs. A PhD will not help you personally unless: a) You want to prove to yourself that you can
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by nagrom 16y ago
I've always wanted somewhere that would serve a decent salad reliably for £5. I've yet to find that place. If they existed, they'd have me as a customer at least 3 times a week.
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by nagrom 16y ago
I just moved from Glasgow to Geneva to work at CERN (a particle physics lab) for 2 months. It's been much more difficult than I expected, and I was apprehensive to begin with! However, when things are uncomfortable I tend to fret for a whil
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by nagrom 16y ago
"(I hear similar complaints from friends who are professors. Professors nowadays seem to have become professional fundraisers who do a little research on the side. It may be time to fix that.)" There are too many words in that second senten
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by nagrom 16y ago
It's terrifying because your position is that one shouldn't do something that is entirely harmless and innocent, for fear that you will be branded for life as something evil. It's even more terrifying because your position appears to be tac
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by nagrom 16y ago
This is absolutely true. I am moving to CERN this weekend and found that securing somewhere to live was extremely stressful, not to mention expensive. I am actually surprised that, given that housing is a basic human need, there is no mass-
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by nagrom 16y ago
Reverse engineering the communication protocol for a Thorlabs stepper motor and writing a Linux driver for it. Planning my road trip to CERN from Scotland next week and getting to know a Monte Carlo simulation for physics reactions for when
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by nagrom 16y ago
Maybe I misunderstand, but surely Kodu is a fantastic advert for your ideas, and you should be welcoming it? Here's a fun thing to do that is learning and on a platform with which your kids' friends will be familiar. I can understand that
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by nagrom 16y ago
You're missing an awful lot of astronomy if you think that orbital mechanics is the sum total of astronomical knowledge. There's no earth-bound laboratory that can create the hundreds of Teslas magnetic fields found in the sun; there's no e
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by nagrom 16y ago
Under your definition, astronomy is not a real science since astronomical experiments are pretty much impossible and the term 'control' has no meaning there. It is perfectly acceptable in science to use observations of natural phenomena tha
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Where to work remotely for three months?
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by nagrom 16y ago
I was in Tenerife earlier this year and I was shocked at the number of properties that were lying around, half completed. It seemed like every cove and beach along the south and west coasts of the island had uncompleted holiday/retirement a
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by nagrom 16y ago
I think that you're misunderstanding his point. He doesn't mean to compare the scales of the problem; he's pointing out that if many people think that there's a problem with your product, you need to take that seriously rather than be dismi
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by nagrom 16y ago
I suspect that it's because 95% and 99% are familiar numbers from a statistics class, corresponding to 2 and 3 standard deviations in a normal pdf respectively. In statistical tests, most answers have something to do with standard deviation
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by nagrom 16y ago
This depends on your situation. I'm doing a post doc right now, while looking for something else. But I was 24 when I got my PhD, and through the post doc position got the chance to go and live in Japan, China, Germany and Switzerland. I se
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by nagrom 16y ago
I'd also be interested in an event like this if it was held in the UK. If it's on Justin.tv, will the stream be made available as a video later?
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by nagrom 16y ago
I can sympathise with it being exam week. Don't worry about it. I think that the problem that you have with academics is that to be good at research you must concentrate on that, and that alone. Teaching gets you nothing, so the good resear
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by nagrom 16y ago
"From this crisis we face today - employers will recognize this fact and stop hiring bullshitters." If you are prepared to put money on that, I think that you may end up poor ;-) Bullshitters are, as a class, the most successful people in

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