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by ylem 16y ago
I think it varies drastically by subfield. I'm a physicist, and while there are some subcommunties that are cutthroat, there are many that are small and where people are pretty helpful to each other. I think a lot of it may also depend on
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by ylem 16y ago
Just a small comment--Princeton used to not require coursework--only quals. but it is rare to see this in current universities.
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by ylem 16y ago
What about using git and s3? Any thoughts on this? I've seen it done for both java and python (dulwich I believe) implementations of git (as well as hg)--but not cgit. Would one have to do this using webdav or fuse?
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by ylem 16y ago
There's an excellent book that I'm reading called "The innovator's dilemma" which seems relevant to your case. The difficulty with established competitors is that their middle management gets in the way--that is, if you're charging less an
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by ylem 16y ago
I don't want to start a flame war, but I think static typing is overrated.
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by ylem 16y ago
It's an incentive question: Researchers are often evaluated based on the papers they produce (impact and numbers)--not based on how maintainable our code base is. If I can keep a cobbled together code base going and still produce code, th
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by ylem 16y ago
The problem with Matlab is that while it is fast for prototyping, it's difficult to write maintainable code in it (which is why I switched to python). Furthermore, you run into the issue of sharing code with people at institutions that don
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by ylem 16y ago
That was one of the main reasons I bought my iPad--it let's me read/annotate PDFs. This is great for when I travel!
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by ylem 16y ago
I doubt that removing tenure would result in the hiring of new professors. One recent trend has been to hire adjuncts as much as possible and to only slowly hire tenured faculty. Let's suppose that you have a professor (say a theorist) wh
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by ylem 16y ago
It's not clear what this means: a) Amazon has to provide a way of purchasing content via the apple store (and presumably can do so at 30% markup). Meanwhile, books that you purchased to read on your computer, kindle, android phone, etc. i
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by ylem 16y ago
I'm actually rather sad about this--but I remember when Borders was the small bookstore back home....When they started, they were technically savvy. Also, I really liked how they really seemed to love books. I'd tell them that I planned t
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by ylem 16y ago
The following article may be of some interest: http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/nov2010/ca20101...
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by ylem 16y ago
can one do a chroot?
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by ylem 16y ago
I'll echo that that depends very much on funding source. For some university postdocs, it is around $35K, for NIH postdocs, it's less than $50K. Given that the typical postdoc has done a PhD for 5-7 years and many people do two postdocs,
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Sleep deprivation will kill us all?(pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com)
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by ylem 16y ago
"A Random Walk Down WallStreet" is still an excellent read.
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by ylem 16y ago
I think there is a contrast. If I need an answer and I need it now, then yes, transcripts are quicker. But, suppose I want to learn say, javascript, then a video lecture might be more useful. I wonder if they will do ads within the video
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by ylem 16y ago
A few reasons: 1) I work at an international user facility for my day job and I really only want to do this once ;> With IDNs, I'm worried about dealing with Unicode IDNs. The email regex has been updated in recent versions of djang
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by ylem 16y ago
I've been looking at this recently. I'm still not sure about using bcrypt (SHA512 for example is part of the python standard library), but we should at least be using SHA2 instead of SHA1. One possibility is to use google's KeyGen to encr
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by ylem 16y ago
I'm very curious how this will effect QT...
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by ylem 16y ago
Her degree is in special education.
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by ylem 16y ago
I think it's cool. I played with it for Android (not the voice input, but the text based input and the voice output). I was with a Russian and Turkish colleague (I speak American English). We found that the translation was pretty good--bu
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by ylem 16y ago
The nice thing about page numbers would be the ability to discuss things with people reading the same book in paper format (think of using it in a class for example. "On pg 3, John said...")
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by ylem 16y ago
I think one thing that we have in the US is that unemployment centers were set up in a different age and are designed to serve unskilled labor--but there are not so many unskilled jobs. Some of the training programs that are paid for are
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by ylem 16y ago
This would seem to be especially true of "for profit" colleges. There was a pretty depressing tv special (frontline?) on it...They sell hopes and dreams.
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by ylem 16y ago
I think that you see this in places like Spain as well--you have a large educated, unemployed fraction of the population...
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by ylem 16y ago
I think it's a question of what comes out of making these connections. For example, there are formal "networking" events. However, what are the statistics of job offers that come from these?
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by ylem 16y ago
1) I think if you're unemployed, I think the OP is correct in saying that it's better to have something on your resume, than a large gap where you were applying for jobs 2) Some people are able to transition. I had a cousin who used to wor
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by ylem 16y ago
Actually, one difference between poor and rich is in the reach of their social networks... For some people (see my other post about my sister), they spend part of the time crafting resumes for companies either in their field, or trying to g
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by ylem 16y ago
I have a sister who is unemployed in California (Pasadena), so I will make a few anecdotal observations. She was an honors student in college and taught special ed for some years before moving on to manage some group homes for the mentally

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