liedra

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by liedra 11y ago
You might get a tax free stipend... :) Depends on whether you get a scholarship! (I have a PhD student of mine who has a "fees only" scholarship - she is employed doing other things at the university but that's separate fro
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by liedra 11y ago
I hope there will be an independent ethics review committee or similar. The modern concept and frameworks of Responsible Research and Innovation might be a helpful starting point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsib
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by liedra 11y ago
Ha, my long distance relationship survived with a good old fashioned "3, 2, 1, go!" :)
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by liedra 11y ago
This is creepy as hell. Video saved to the cloud, owned/processed by Google? Yeah nope.
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by liedra 12y ago
I remember having to go home and tell my mum I now worked for freshmeat.net, looking at her face, then realising ... "NO! It's not a porn site!!!"
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by liedra 12y ago
Yes, I'm an ethicist, but I also am a realist. In the current HE environment in the UK having a "permanent job" means very little these days. I'm all for bucking the system, but I have to be able to be in the system to e
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by liedra 12y ago
Given I'm here on a work visa, I'd rather not have much cause for authorities to look closely at me until I've gone for citizenship :-)
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by liedra 12y ago
I was an editor for freshmeat back in the early 2000s and it was a lot of fun. I was there when fm acquired themes.org and was one of the main people tasked with ensuring the HUGE db of themes was sanely migrated into the fm backend. We had
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by liedra 12y ago
Men can (and should be!) feminists too.
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by liedra 13y ago
The more people who come out saying it's unacceptable the more likely there is to be a paradigm shift, at least, that's how I hope it will go. Another voice to add to those decrying the brogrammer culture is always welcome.
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by liedra 13y ago
Not at all - I think a qualitative approach may be able to illustrate the problem better because you can get more complexity from deeper questioning.
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by liedra 13y ago
And perhaps over on the "nursing news" website they are actually doing this. We're in tech. Let's sort our own back yards out before pointing fingers at others'.
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by liedra 13y ago
"Applications of statistics in this area fail to illuminate but at all any useful causal link." - if you're relying on statistics to show things in this area you're missing the complexity of the situation which a more in
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by liedra 13y ago
As a woman in tech, I'd like to thank the men in this thread who obviously get what the problem is here. This sort of stuff can only change with a concerted effort from both men and women to change the culture. And it's small step
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by liedra 13y ago
Except they weren't originally developed to be used by literal eyes of evil. They were the skype of the time, pretty much.
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by liedra 13y ago
Sounds like someone's bitter. Or trying to stave off competition. :)
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by liedra 14y ago
I don't see what's so radical here. It sounds like any other branded clothing/etc. sales-based job, really.
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by liedra 14y ago
This is a failing of your supervisor and university if you have this experience in a UK university. I'm currently supervising PhD students at De Montfort University and we are required by the university to have AT LEAST monthly meetings wit
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by liedra 14y ago
What's your point? I have several friends (and myself as well) that deleted their accounts and they were actual active users.
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by liedra 14y ago
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by this too! I had the birthday, an address, and something about one of my standing orders that I had to pick from. It was nice to not have to explain yourself to a real person either. You just had to confir
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by liedra 14y ago
Really cute! It'd be nice to be able to share a mockup with friends somehow.
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by liedra 14y ago
What alternative OS can I run on the device?
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by liedra 14y ago
I'm in the UK. It's also useless for finding things - it has petrol stations in places they don't exist near my house, and restaurants that closed down years ago. It also sucks for anything but driving - I don't have a car so I walk everywh
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by liedra 14y ago
Yeah, me too! I am very impressed. :D (Hope you're getting some affiliation cash, OP, I'd be happy to throw that your way given the usefulness of this!)
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by liedra 14y ago
Apparently you can cut and shave them down, but it seems like a bit of a scary thing to try! There's also cutters popping up on ebay which claim to do it. Who knows, though.
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by liedra 14y ago
I also have large mail accounts with Mail and haven't had any problems either. iPhoto is the big one I have a beef with, but Mail was always good to me (except with Exchange integration, but DavMail fixed that up).
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by liedra 14y ago
Having tried to use Open/Libre Office as a MS Office replacement I can say it's definitely not on par with MS Office (sadly). So many little things that you take for granted on MS Office either aren't implemented or are incompatible with ot
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by liedra 14y ago
Yeah, I think you were on multivaders too, right? Heh, small world.
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by liedra 14y ago
I was also probably addicted to FFXI (played from the release of CoP til 2009ish), so hey fellow ex-FFXIer. I pulled myself out of it when I realised I wasn't getting any of my PhD done and then went and managed to pull that off with the re
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by liedra 14y ago
You can to a certain degree, yeah. There was a project in the UK that looked at using NLP to determine what age/gender child groomers are (to see if they were adults impersonating children in order to befriend children online). It was prett

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