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by pseut 14y ago
Just a nitpick: I had to look at the source for "professional table" and was surprised to see the booktabs package used because, to quote their documentation > You will not go far wrong if you remember two simple guidelines at all times
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by pseut 14y ago
Quick comment on bibtex: if you use emacs, reftex mode is essential. My current setup is: * A directory and git repo for each paper (use your own VCS as desired) * A separate git repo for my global bibtex file and a few heavily used .tex f
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by pseut 14y ago
Construction comes to mind immediately, but yeah, I'm a sucker for those videos.
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"iPhone"
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by pseut 14y ago
> Don't lie to your parents. They're your safe harbour, they will understand and help you. Tell them what's going on. I understand what you mean by this, but just wanted to comment that this is not unambiguously good advice. Some par
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by pseut 14y ago
Ok. I'm pretty sure (and as mentioned in other comments), you also need to have a connection to the machine with the repo to do this with SVN. My work desktop is Red Hat, so I'm (unfortunately) used to downloading old versions of software.
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by pseut 14y ago
> You don't have to worry about offending me. I'm the biggest asshole the universe has ever seen. I assure you that I can take more than what I regularly dish out. On the off chance you don't realize it, this probably affects your emplo
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by pseut 14y ago
Not aimed at you specifically, but in no particular order... * Fill out your profile * List your interesting projects * Have interesting projects * Expect to be asked in a job interview, "so, what's your username on hacker news/stack overfl
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by pseut 14y ago
I think that most universities will probably be totally fucked by the upcoming changes in education. :) If it leads to better and/or cheaper education overall, I'm fine with that, even if it could be slightly inconvenient for me personall
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by pseut 14y ago
I like rebase for this rather than merging the changes. But it's kind of strange to think of it as a problem that you'd need to acknowledge the other developers' work before committing...
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by pseut 14y ago
> Perhaps because you can do the same thing in SVN? And, until (apparently) recently, if you make a mistake SVN will "trash your local copy rather badly" which isn't quite the same thing.
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by pseut 14y ago
This quote is priceless: > Git allows the topic-branch development style, where you maintain one short-lived branch for every task you work on. Like many people, I learned about this style from distributed version control. I love it.
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by pseut 14y ago
Definitely; I used bzr for years before using git and always thought, "how much faster can git really be?" Startlingly faster. preemptive disclaimer: I haven't used bzr for years and understand that it's faster now than it was. I liked bz
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by pseut 14y ago
I'm disappointed no one's mentioned digraphs yet. I've used emacs for years, but I'm starting to use vim now because ctrl-k G* etc is just so easy (I type a lot of math).
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by pseut 14y ago
I prefer swapping the right control and alt keys on my keyboard to switching caps lock and control; that way I can use my left thumb for meta/alt and right thumb for control. But navigation by search and backwards-kill-word are fantastic t
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Effective emacs (2006)(sites.google.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
Maybe this page: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs
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by pseut 14y ago
We're talking past each other; a few points, though :). The content dissemination part of these MOOCs isn't new. You can get short lectures by VHS tape. Most classroom lectures are watered down versions of the textbooks/research monograp
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by pseut 14y ago
It takes about 2s to pull up their profile... If they want the recognition/credibility. Some comments I'll look, most I don't.
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by pseut 14y ago
I won't quote the belly aching, but it's relevant. Would reddit's AMAs work without "vigorous" downvoting?
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As in [show hn]?
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by pseut 14y ago
I think the down votes mean (some) people really hate Quora. E.g. Recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5217052
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by pseut 14y ago
Getting back to the clean slate is pretty trivial whatever you do, which is one of the nice things about git. I'd probably prefer to have a main (sub) branch that I add to incrementally, apply various sledgehammers to the "clean slate" and
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QA & UX(nngroup.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
Maybe I'm slow. Please point out the part of that article at odds with the opinion in the editorial? The only area of overlap I could see was this passage: > Some students are also ill prepared for the university-level work. And few st
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by pseut 14y ago
Many of the comments here seem to be variations of, "I don't like editorials." I don't either, but their main point and recommendation seems pretty uncontroversial: > Colleges need to improve online courses before they deploy them wid
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by pseut 14y ago
It's not an article, it's an editorial. Which means it's both opinion and severely space constrained. I think it's fair to assume the opinion is based on more information than is presented, and they link to studies. I'm not claiming they're
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by pseut 14y ago
I'm still confused about the 2/3 of people who opened the link to vote "no."
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by pseut 14y ago
> don't do what I do and train in only 5 weeks This part needs to be first because it heavily discounts your first paragraph.
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by pseut 14y ago
SF marathon in 2003 -- for just finishing in a decent time, the long runs are key. I think I used the online run "diary" at coolrunnings.com, printed out a random training schedule, counted backwards from the marathon date, and started at

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