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by pseut 13y ago
Less aggressive dogs are usually deterred by a squirt from a water bottle (if it's clearly someone's pet rather than a stray). I've heard that heavy bike chains are also effective and it might be easier to swing one than to
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by pseut 13y ago
Think of it as "how to get a group across a potentially tricky/flooded stream." The strongest swimmer crosses first, tied to the rope. Everyone else crosses the rope (hand over hand under the rope with your legs crossed ove
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by pseut 13y ago
It's a fine option, but over, say, 30 years (well within the lifespan of a good textbook if it's getting updates) there are likely to be copies of the book that aren't accompanied with the source code. Especially for books w
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by pseut 13y ago
Here's a different perspective. For context, I don't write much general-purpose software, but I am writing one or two free/open textbooks[1,2] (for statistics/econometrics) and I've thought a lot about how they sho
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by pseut 13y ago
I like Mint a lot, but I liked it more before going through the upgrade process.
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by pseut 13y ago
Why Cygwin instead of MinGW? (I can't remember why I prefer MinGW, but at some point I had a reason).
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by pseut 13y ago
Well-written English is remarkably well structured[1]: the first or second paragraph is usually it's main point and the rest fills in details; the first paragraph or two in a section provides an overview and the rest of the section pro
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by pseut 13y ago
Probably true. I'd bet it's also unlikely that someone so new to free software will attract many collaborators. So they'll be likely to own the copyright anyway (for at least the vast majority of the project) and can relice
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by pseut 13y ago
>That's fine. They're happy for me to not share any changes I make with them. They explicitly told me this when they released it under MIT/BSD. That's their choice, and they are free to make it. Thank you for putting
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by pseut 13y ago
It would be useful to have documentation licenses as well.
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by pseut 13y ago
IIRC mailbox was a pivot from "orchestra todo," an iphone collaborative todo app that won awards on its own. You might want to check that your other "big bang launch" examples really fit that description.
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by pseut 13y ago
It's not just that, but more about why the applicant thinks that "married with kids" is important information on his or her resume. Why does he or she want to broadcast that fact (especially given that, in the US at least, i
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by pseut 13y ago
There could be conscious discrimination against the resume once the "married with kids" line is added; I wouldn't be so quick to assume that surely nobody is doing it. Honestly (and this is embarrassing to admit), I'd
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by pseut 13y ago
I'd find this advice a lot more credible if it were accompanied by examples of it actually working. If someone spent a long time on some irrelevant GPS drawing of a logo it would creep me out.
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by pseut 13y ago
I think the emphasis was on "reasonable"
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by pseut 13y ago
Thanks for the push; done!
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by pseut 13y ago
On the off chance that the authors read this: please, since you have no current plans to finish the project, make the document source code available (I'd guess it's LaTeX, but there's more effort put into layout than usual) a
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by pseut 13y ago
Pretty sure that if you link to the best carousel you can find, you'll find plenty of people willing to go off on it.
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by pseut 13y ago
The great thing about the open web is that I don't have to fucking care what browser, OS, or phone Marco uses to access it.
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by pseut 13y ago
>>(and where this person was going) he apparently wasn't making the claim about the entire company
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by pseut 13y ago
You're asking whether it would be as problematic if it were a different book? I guess it depends. It's not like fiction/nonfiction is a switch that you can toggle without making other substantive changes.
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by pseut 13y ago
I have a sense of humor and high tolerance for sarcasm, and didn't downvote. But look at the long thread of sibling & niece/nephew comments to yours. Do you really think that the parent's comment led to any further usef
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by pseut 13y ago
"Obviously" and "clearly" are huge red flags that the writer is trying to bluff (esp. in student work). Just write: "Then"
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by pseut 13y ago
"It's not for nothing that we often say, 'a picture is worth a thousand words'." This sentence can support either side of the argument. I love it. Draw that sentence.
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by pseut 13y ago
So, obviously I don't want to sound ungrateful and I'm impressed that they put this together and made it freely available. I'm not sure that creative commons is the right license though, since it doesn't require the LaT
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How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly(businessinsider.com)
17 points by pseut 13y ago|0 comments
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The Crisis of Big Science(nybooks.com)
2 points by pseut 13y ago|0 comments
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by pseut 13y ago
How are you measuring "attention"? Points? Comments? It seems entirely possible that more people have read the correction but feel less compelled to comment on this (less "exciting") story.
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by pseut 13y ago
I'm curious how many people browse github from their smartphones. Right now I'm on my desktop and see a pretty column of unlabeled icons, right next to three inches of unused whitespace between the icons and the edge of the fra
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by pseut 13y ago
Totally agree; it's been great with ~ 100 feeds.

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