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by tjl 9y ago
My UX teacher at university consulted with our province on the design of new highway signs (I think it was for the icons that tell you what's at the next off-ramp/service centre). So, it certainly is possible to consider the use c
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by tjl 9y ago
With Fluid, you don't do anything from the web developer's prospective. The Fluid app just packages a Web site as a separate application. So, what this means that any user can take a Web site and make that a separate app if they w
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by tjl 10y ago
That really depends. Sometimes, things can be pretty generic or the main site can be badly organized. In that case, I find that a folder in my bookmarks bar with links can be a lot faster. Even without using the bookmark, autocomplete in th
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by tjl 10y ago
One of the professors in my former department was an astronomer from the US Naval Observatory. He's applying techniques he developed (along with other techniques astronomers use) to get better resolution MRI images.
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by tjl 10y ago
I had tons of notes related to Trade Wars and planning my moves. I played some MUDs during university in the early 90s, but once I realized how much time I was spending on them, I decided I needed to stop for the sake of my grades. Of cours
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by tjl 10y ago
FF7 is an excellent JRPG, but for a different (and more modern) take on JRPGs, I recommend the Persona series, especially 4 (Golden if possible) and the latest 5. Persona 3 is excellent as well and similar in style to 4 and 5, but not quite
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by tjl 10y ago
My only problem with doing everything in Matlab (which I used to do) and exporting the PDF is that you can't really match the fonts easily to the main document. I picked a set of fonts (math and normal) for my Ph.D. thesis and I wanted
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by tjl 10y ago
I love matlab2tikz. I used it for all my plots in my Ph.D. thesis (and I had a lot). I also really like latexmk. For non-plots I love Sketch ( http://sketch4latex.sourceforge.net ) which is pretty great for doing diagrams with 3D
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by tjl 10y ago
I know many profs who decided to switch from industry to academia because they had enough money and wanted a less hectic lifestyle. A very large number of professors actually do contract work for companies. Even a former Master's super
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by tjl 10y ago
I know that at least one former Amazon CTO was an excellent coder, although he didn't really do much (if any) while as CTO. I don't know of many companies that have a "Chief Data Scientist" that reports directly to the C
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by tjl 10y ago
You're assuming that you are the one doing the posting. If my parents and my sister are on Facebook (they are), I'm in their address book and if that got uploaded to Facebook (quite likely), I'm there now despite the fact I d
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by tjl 10y ago
Another thing with services like Facebook is that even if you're not on it officially, you're likely in the database as people will tag you in photos and have you in their address book. Then, there's other things like their c
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by tjl 10y ago
The thing is that if you're actually teaching C++ (which I have done), there's still the C parts that you actually have to teach as well that are common between both. So, if you know C, you don't need to learn those over agai
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by tjl 10y ago
A few other data flow programming languages, LabView (which has been around for a very long time) and is extremely popular for data acquisition (it's basically the goto choice most of the time) and the Houdini computer graphics softwar
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by tjl 10y ago
The C++ template system alone makes it very difficult. Plus, many people have a habit of writing a mess of interconnected classes that become very difficult to pull apart to understand what's happening. During my Master's (and my
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by tjl 10y ago
What I love about Python is that it's so similar to how I've written pseudocode over the years. So, I often do quick prototypes of ideas in it, even if the final product isn't in Python. Like you, I'm basically a C progr
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by tjl 10y ago
Apple shut down iAd. That article isn't about Apple's ad business, although certainly some developers have in-app ads, but now they're moving away from iAd. They're looking at search ads for apps in the app store, but th
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by tjl 10y ago
In the original show there wasn't a currency but in order to have aliens who exhibit avarice and the worst part of capitalism they had to include a currency (latinum, I think it was called).
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by tjl 10y ago
My big problem with OneDrive is that it complains about some of my filenames and won't sync them until I change them to meet their requirements. So, I'm only using their free plan until that changes. I only have a few things there
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by tjl 10y ago
I order from Amazon about once a month, possibly more. UPS is usually okay, but it really depends on the driver. One of the drivers is actually stellar, others are average, and I've had drivers who just put up the couldn't deliver
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by tjl 10y ago
I was co-supervised by a professor in CS for my Master's degree and during my Ph.D. I did most of the CS numerical programming courses (and I did most of the computer graphics courses during my Master's). There won't be many
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by tjl 10y ago
The design pattern book came out 22 years ago so they were certainly named as such. My first Unix programming job had me first learn RCS and then we later switched to CVS. I used CVS personally for years after that until I switched to Subve
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by tjl 10y ago
Back in 1996 I was using CVS at work. Before that it was RCS or SCCS (RCS was the first version control system I used). This was at Bell-Northern Research and Nortel, which was not a bastion of cutting edge techniques. ClearCase was pretty
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by tjl 10y ago
In my mind, it's one thing if a Web site that I go to learnt about me based on my interactions and a whole another thing when people start correlating data across sites. That's what Facebook is doing with its stupid buttons on nea
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by tjl 10y ago
So you didn't get the MMR vaccine? If you didn't, it's not just measles that you didn't get vaccinated for.
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by tjl 10y ago
I had none of those required courses in high school aside from one PE course. In grades 7 and 8 we had combined shop and home economics courses (in each year) which I thought was a good idea since everybody learnt to cook, sew, and do some
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by tjl 10y ago
The problem with what you're asking is that it's one more course you're trying to fit into a curriculum. My engineering department already gutted their first year calculus course by making most of it (about 3/4) pre-calc
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by tjl 10y ago
During my Ph.D. I tried tracking down the reasoning behind a couple sets of assumptions made in non-uniform torsion of beams (e.g., twisting a beam with one end fixed). It turns out that they just kept the same assumptions from uniform tors
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by tjl 10y ago
One problem is that they collect "shadow" profiles of people who aren't even on the service. If someone who has your contact info is on the service, they'll start a profile of you based on that. Plus, there's many w
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by tjl 10y ago
Thanks for the info. It's a bit expensive for me. I've been wondering about a good long term project and this might be it. I'll have to think about it.

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