schm00

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   by schm00 16y ago

   I don't recall precisely. I suspect I asked myself something along the lines of "What is the smallest, simplest concrete step that I can take that will move me toward my goal?" If the answer is typing "emacs", that's so easy that it's har
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   by schm00 16y ago

   I learned a long time ago that I could cure the pain of procrastination by opening an editor and typing int main(int argc, char **argv) { I still do this... just opening the appropriate program -- emacs, MS Word, whatever -- and typi
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   by schm00 16y ago

   "When Galileo suggested the world was round.." Eh? Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe was complete nearly 50 years before Galileo was born. Ctrl-w.
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   by schm00 16y ago

   I started a wikibook on this stuff a few years back. Includes material on inline perl, gnuplot and has lots of examples. Check out: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ad_Hoc_Data_Analysis_From_The_U...