johnminter

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by johnminter 5y ago
I suspect that here in the US it will require a vote by the Congress.
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by johnminter 5y ago
I am a thankful user of Gnuplot. As some before me mentioned, the naming history was complex. What is more important is that the developers provided - and still support - an excellent program that we may freely use under a very reasonable l
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by johnminter 6y ago
That is why many prefer viridis.
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by johnminter 6y ago
Yes, RStudio uses it and I find it lives up to the title "The Swiss Army Knife of document conversion."
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by johnminter 6y ago
One nice feature on many social media platforms is that one can unfollow or block people who seem to generate more heat than light in their posts. I am willing to read and interact with someone with whom I disagree as long as the discussion
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by johnminter 6y ago
We live in western New York. My wife teaches in a private school and my daughter teaches in a charter school. The New York State Department of Education provides standards and direct support for high functioning special needs students and t
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by johnminter 6y ago
In the 1970s when my wife and I were in High School there were some gender biases. My wife (from Syracuse NY) had been cooking, cleaning, sewing, etc. because both her parents worked. She wanted to take shop instead because she was studying
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by johnminter 6y ago
That would not surprise me. One might be able to recover the cost of the education at a state university. I suspect the return on investment would significantly lower at a private school with higher tuition. My daughter teaches at a high sc
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by johnminter 6y ago
The academic route has always been a crapshoot. Most of my professors from the Chemistry Department at Florida State were still there and active when my daughter went there for a Meteorology masters decades later. The cartoonist, Jorge Cham
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by johnminter 6y ago
Manufacturers need to distinguish between critical updates that fix a significant error in the results or fix a security hole that could make the users system vulnerable. By contrast, feature updates should be labeled as such. This makes it
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by johnminter 6y ago
Kodak Alaris still sells professional film
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by johnminter 6y ago
In my opinion one should be paid a rate commensurate with what you produce for your employer. If you choose to live in a remote location where your salary goes further, you should be able to enjoy that outcome. It should be no surprise any
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by johnminter 6y ago
Not to my knowlege.
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by johnminter 6y ago
In the company where I worked that was expected of professional level staff. We could not afford to lose clients. We typically checked email daily and were available by phone in an emergency. People did not abuse this.
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by johnminter 6y ago
I think the key to a good exerience obtaining a Ph.D. is the choice of a good advisor. My advisor explained that the process of getting the degree was to teach us to find important problems and learn what we needed to solve them. Typically,
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by johnminter 6y ago
One needs to find a note-taking tool that fits one's workflow. I do a lot of analysis using R and compose many documents in Rmarkdown using R-Studio. I keep a git repository with "tips" - one Rmarkdown document per subject ar
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by johnminter 6y ago
Use what works for you and we will use what works for us. Markdown is a great tool for documentation, especially using tools like RStudio and Rmarkdown. These tools typically use pandoc under the hood to let an author generate whatever they
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by johnminter 7y ago
Here in the US the vendors are not doing this.
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by johnminter 7y ago
My take from the article is that one needs sufficient confidence and persistence to set a goal, a plan to achieve it, and the self-discipline to do the work to achieve it. Self directed learners have a better possibility to do this, especia
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by johnminter 7y ago
Should that not have been explicit in the purchase agreement?
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by johnminter 7y ago
This article is irresponsible. The federal government has been forthcoming about the problem with one component in the test kit they released. They provided a work-around quickly and have updated the test protocol and are releasing updated
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by johnminter 7y ago
I remember Usenet and the science newsgroups. The author of the parent article mentioned the problem with trolls. There was one who was especially infuriating and unforgettable. He was from Dartmouth and used the screen name "Archimede
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by johnminter 7y ago
That is a great solution. I love markdown. Have you considered putting the directory under version control (git)? That way you can track changes and easily recover sections you remove and regret later. I have an entire github repository for
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by johnminter 7y ago
IMHO the optimum financial plan depends upon your age and life situation. All require your family to work together and each member to grow in self-discipline. Here are tactics that worked well for my my family. 1. Learn to live below your m
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by johnminter 7y ago
I had a cubicle before they were popular - at Florida State U as an undergraduate from 1973-1977. They were great for studying and I could monitor my experiments in the lab just outside my cubicle. I had a small office in grad school and in
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by johnminter 7y ago
Try SublimeText3 [1] instead. It is a cross platform editor. You can try it out and use it for free. The expectation is that if you like it and continue to use it, you will purchase a license. I really like it for programming any task I wan
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by johnminter 7y ago
I had a 37 year career at a company that used to be a well recognized brand. I was in the Research Laboratories in an Analytical Sciences division. During that time we had many layoffs as the company's financial position eroded. The ke
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by johnminter 7y ago
You might took into Yihui Xie's TinyTex. It is a stripped-down install of critical packages from TexLive. One can install whatever you really need. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/
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by johnminter 7y ago
Have you started or worked in a small business? Margin makes the difference between making payrolll and continued operation or failure/closing. Large corporations also prosper or fail based on margin.
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by johnminter 7y ago
This article sounds much like the view of W. Edwards Deming, who called for the elimination of the annual performance appraisal. His rationale was, "The fact is that the system that people work in and the interaction with people may ac

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