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by pseut 14y ago
sure
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by pseut 14y ago
A big part of "ownership" for me is the ability to replace the service with my own machine, whether I actually do that or not. So (for example) I'd have less ownership over the gmail account <whomever@gmail.com> than one with a cus
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by pseut 14y ago
There you go!
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by pseut 14y ago
sent (your providing an email address made it quite easy...)
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by pseut 14y ago
I mean, I was excited to get an invite to google wave. Then I couldn't figure out what to use it for, didn't have any friends using it, etc... which has been my experience with app.net so far as well. I find it a little ironic that you vie
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by pseut 14y ago
Your "..." deleted three paragraphs explaining the "Boyerisms" in detail. As someone who doesn't know the term, I substituted "principles" without (I assume) any loss of understanding. But, since you're upset on my behalf, what did I miss?
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by pseut 14y ago
> Investigators have been known to be unduly influenced by pretty much any kind of evidence imaginable and then all further evidence is construed to support the original assumption/assertion. A different way of phrasing this is that inv
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by pseut 14y ago
For me, the key phrase was > Edwards-Stuart had essentially concluded that the fire had been started by a discarded cigarette, even though this seemed an unlikely event in itself, because the other two explanations were even more implau
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by pseut 14y ago
I have an MS in statistics, teach graduate statistics to econ PhD students (essentially; it's an 'econometrics' class); do research on statistical methods, etc. I'm really sympathetic to your point. I would not want the guilt or innocence
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by pseut 14y ago
That looks awesome. Thanks!
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by pseut 14y ago
Was anyone else disappointed it's 10 and up? I have a 4yo daughter that loves to type in Emacs; we set the colors and thats about it for now. I'd love more ideas for the next 6 years.
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by pseut 14y ago
> Have you considered that >90% of CS graduates are not going to be superstar programmers? At my University, I do not know of any other students doing their own side projects, outside of research projects with professors (this isn't
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by pseut 14y ago
No no no (for music at least). I have absolutely no idea what the mythical CD/ablum case for 95% of the music I've bought in the last 12 years looks like. Now I'm using it to organize all of my songs? Let alone the hundreds of live conce
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by pseut 14y ago
As a rule of thumb, if you feel that the correct answer depends on these details, ask questions to pin it down. Or, even better, just pick what you think is the most relevant for the company that you're interviewing at and (briefly) say wh
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by pseut 14y ago
Having a random applicant "work" a day for free is a pretty crappy proposition in most industries; I suspect tech isn't much different. You gave an example of asking a job applicant for goldman sachs to "trade stocks for a day." Are you k
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by pseut 14y ago
I'm not sure that I have a constructive way of replying to this. Can you spell out your objections, instead of trying to jostle my imagination? You act like no one's been fired after their first day at Starbucks.
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by pseut 14y ago
And...? I'm in academia. I've had job interviews where I've literally gone office to office discussing people's research projects and helping them come up with ideas. It was fun, and it never occurred to me that I was being taken advantag
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by pseut 14y ago
It's possible, but I doubt it's easy. I assume that the "mastery" of thinking deeply about answering interview questions was self-reported, right? I'd be curious to know how many of the interviewers would agree with him about it. This is
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by pseut 14y ago
I guess it depends on the position, but the point still stands. Given that you spend x amount of time interviewing, what does it matter how it's spent? (with the obvious caveats that if they spend, say, 3 hours screaming at you as a stres
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by pseut 14y ago
The discussion's been useful, though.
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by pseut 14y ago
You can interpret the response more broadly, though. In this case, it was probably pretty apparent that the person hadn't worked through the problem before, so it is indicative of problem-solving and attitude. If he'd recited the answer f
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by pseut 14y ago
Yes, but putting it in the parent preempts a lot of similar sibling replies from people who don't read all of the comments.
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by pseut 14y ago
A job interview is going to take at least a day of your time anyway. What does it matter if that time is spent programming, talking over coffee, sketching on a whiteboard, or whatever?
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by pseut 14y ago
Check out pandoc (a markdown variant).
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by pseut 14y ago
When I used LyX (years ago) typing in equations was slow and buggy (slow means anything longer than typing in text). Plus it doesn't/didn't export very clean source code and, for people who have used latex in a text editor even for only 3 o
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by pseut 14y ago
The advice to "upgrade" for LaTeX is pretty disappointing given the heavy, heavy emphasis on long-term compatibility for TeX itself.
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by pseut 14y ago
I've used plain TeX for my christmas letters for years because it looks so much better than word. LaTeX feels like overkill if I don't need to number equations and floats.
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by pseut 14y ago
Probably my biggest "eureka" moment was when I realized that I don't publish enough papers a year for bibtex file management to really be something that I needed to optimize... unfortunately I realized that long after I'd optimized the hell
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by pseut 14y ago
> I bet they understand a lot more about life than you do. Dude, WTF? I know this isn't a reply to me directly but here's an example of the sort of thing I had in mind. I have premature twins that were born last January three months ea
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by pseut 14y ago
Thanks for sharing that. RefTeX is about that easy: "Ctrl-[" then choose a citation style, then regexp search of the bibtex database with the option to choose multiple papers. If you update a paper's citation details (say someone's working

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