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by stevenbedrick 6y ago
It's a really interesting story, actually! The question of whether and when to capitalize has been an active one since at least the early 20th century. Here's a (very) recent Columbia Journalism Review article that discusses it fr
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by stevenbedrick 6y ago
Upvoted and agreed 100%, from an AAC researcher. Your best bet is definitely going to be to reach out to an SLP with AAC expertise.
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by stevenbedrick 6y ago
Congress wrote the bill, yes, but in this case did so in very close coordination with the Treasury, specifically the Secretary, who presumably had a lot of input on the specifics. So it’s definitely not just on Congress, here... plenty of b
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by stevenbedrick 6y ago
Melanie Mitchell’s “Complexity: A Guided Tour” is a superb introduction to this area. And while I’m plugging her books, her latest one is one of the best-written lay-audience books about machine learning and AI that I’ve seen. I strongly re
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by stevenbedrick 7y ago
In his excellent book, “The Truthful Art”, Alberto Cairo presents a great analysis and discussion of those graphs. The short version is that the way they are designed masks a lot of details of the analysis such that they are fundamentally m
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by stevenbedrick 7y ago
Alternatively, please _do_ take these comments seriously, since some of the people reading this post and following this discussion are the ones who help their organizations make purchasing decisions about on-prem VCS solutions. I'll ce
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by stevenbedrick 7y ago
Seconding the Langlitz recommendation- their stuff is fabulous.
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by stevenbedrick 9y ago
I loved my AlphaSmart 2000! It was a really great piece of hardware, and a real pleasure to use. I remember the feel of the keyboard very fondly... Thanks for making such an excellent product! And I agree- there would certainly be a place f
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by stevenbedrick 9y ago
It definitely happened in Portland when they ran the Orange line. We were house-hunting a year or two before the new light rail opened, and realtors showing houses along its route were already starting to make a point of mentioning it. As s
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by stevenbedrick 9y ago
Agreed that it was an oversimplification, and thanks for the additional clarity and info. In the box-lifting example, doesn't that sort of thing usually have to be made very explicit in the requirements job posting?
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by stevenbedrick 9y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification- that's a really important point.
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by stevenbedrick 9y ago
That sounds like a really great realization to have had! For the record, what your old manager was doing (directly asking you about your mental health status in a quasi-interview setting) was probably illegal, at least in the US (IANAL). Th
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by stevenbedrick 9y ago
That is an excellent analogy.
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by stevenbedrick 10y ago
It is! And our current Librarian, Carla Hayden, is really incredible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian_of_Congress If I may go into fanboy mode for a moment, I'd like to say that in my opinion the Library i
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by stevenbedrick 10y ago
No, similar things happened at multiple agencies. The EPA was one of them. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/24/us/politics/ap-us... > WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has institu
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by stevenbedrick 10y ago
It actually does do something along those lines, with the "canonical" and "compatible" equivalence rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence As mentioned by others on this thread, the
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by stevenbedrick 10y ago
And that's _exactly_ why Google didn't go that route! I'm all in favor of sticking it to Comcast/Time Warner/whomever, but I very much do _not_ want my neighbors taking it upon themselves to try and run homebrew fib
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by stevenbedrick 10y ago
Very well-put. Furthermore, Github's "Education" site doesn't actually say _what_ the acadmic pricing plans are like, just that you can "ask for a discount".
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by stevenbedrick 10y ago
A useful commentary from a linguist who studies ASL: http://katies.online/katiesblog/index.php/2016/04/27/yes-ive...
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by stevenbedrick 10y ago
Software like Palantir's is a classic example of a dual-use technology.
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by stevenbedrick 11y ago
I don't know precisely, but if FERPA works the way HIPAA does, there's a carve-out for arrangements like this provided that the vendor has an agreement in place (a BAA in HIPAA-speak) and agrees to abide by certain security standa
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by stevenbedrick 11y ago
There's a third really important insight here: "Know thy product area." The author of the article may not have known anything about software, but he definitely knew a lot about call centers, as did the coders who were working
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by stevenbedrick 11y ago
In many countries, certain kinds of engineering are licensed and regulated professions. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en... It's officially a Big Deal in some branches of e
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by stevenbedrick 11y ago
Yup. A long time ago, while working on a project with some particularly gnarly Unicode issues, I got in the habit of thinking in terms of grapheme clusters instead of code points (or "characters", for whatever definition of "
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
Is it necessarily an "either/or" situation here? This seems to me like an example of a "both/and".
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
Couldn't agree more. My memories of that period are razor-sharp- you're not the only old fogie around here who remembers the aftermath of the last bubble...
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
When you count in the cost of benefits, retirement, overhead, etc., I can easily imagine a full-time janitorial position costing the university 70k.
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
It depends on the program. One thing to consider is that your funding support could be (and almost certainly will be) tied to your advisor, so changing to a better advisor will probably have financial implications. This sort of thing is exa
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
In "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", there's an essay entitled "You Just Ask Them?" in which Feynman relates some truly hair-raising (in a bad way) stories about his interactions with and attitudes towards
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
Rather than thinking about it as a "counterpoint," I think it's an excellent illustration of the fact that people are complicated, and are capable of simultaneously being sexist pigs in some ways and progressive and gifted ed

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