kaarlo_n

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   by kaarlo_n 14y ago

   Already have http://www.librarything.com
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   by kaarlo_n 14y ago

   > Why? > > Because they want another Bob, of course! This happened to me at my previous job. My manager asked me to write the skills section for the advertisement of my replacement. It ended up being a mish-mash of the old job a
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   by kaarlo_n 14y ago

   Example of Spector360 use in Australia: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/public-serv...
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   by kaarlo_n 14y ago

   To this day my dad still runs a stock control program on MS-DOS 6.22. It does the job and never crashes. For a while he had a lovely orange display with a Hercules video card. At least for him, 640K turned out to be enough :)
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   by kaarlo_n 15y ago

   > There are many scientific groups where even today, no form of version control is used, even for internal work ... Where I work (government research lab) people think of Subversion as a sporadic backup target, typically doing a commit
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   by kaarlo_n 15y ago

   > Some mathematical software that's not impenetrable (a la MatLab/Mathematica). The Sage project is what you're after: http://www.sagemath.org/
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   by kaarlo_n 15y ago

   This exact issue is addressed in _The Secret Life of Pronouns_ (Pennebaker). http://secretlifeofpronouns.com/