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by thirdstation 9y ago
Some interesting work regarding citations has been put forth by the Semantic Publishing and Referencing ontologies, specifically the CiTO ontology[1]. It allows an author to state the reason for the citation (supports, refutes, etc.). Havin
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by thirdstation 10y ago
From the article: "Our compensation philosophy helped a lot. Most of its principles stem from ideals described earlier: Be honest, and treat people like adults. For instance, during my tenure Netflix didn’t pay performance bonuses, bec
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by thirdstation 10y ago
How tall are you?
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by thirdstation 12y ago
Instead of charging tuition, I wonder if employers would be willing to pay Flatiron $15K per hire as a finder/training fee. That might be a good test of demand for junior Ruby/Rails/Javascript developers, in addition to how g
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by thirdstation 12y ago
Option 2 physically walls off the Late Mergers in addition to mentally (in the minds of the Free Laners), making them easier to ignore. I like option 1 because it forces everyone to move.
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by thirdstation 12y ago
malandrew types faster than me. And has better ASCII art.
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by thirdstation 12y ago
Perhaps instead of merging one lane into another, the animosity toward late mergers can be alleviated by making all lanes move. If no one feels like they are in the free lane, they'll be forced to cooperate. So, on a two-lane highway,
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What happens when life doesn’t go exactly as planned(medium.com)
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by thirdstation 13y ago
Nice minimal design. I like the ability to read a summary before deciding to click through. I was confused at first when the main content frame was empty (like another commenter pointed out - maybe put something there on page load). One bug
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by thirdstation 13y ago
I am trying to reconcile these two statements made by the author: 1) "[Scrum] provides a framework that prioritizes delivering real, working, business-quality software sprint after sprint." 2) "Scrum is engineering centric. Great companies
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by thirdstation 13y ago
The post, and the one it comments on [1], bothers me for a few of reasons. One: As an MS in CS holder I certainly worry that my degree is perceived as worth less, if not outright worthless. I worked very hard for it and am proud of my accom
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by thirdstation 13y ago
I have a MS in CS but, before enrolling in a graduate program I took 30 credits of undergraduate CS courses at a local university as part of a certificate program. My BA in Journalism did not really prepare me for graduate-level CS work. If
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by thirdstation 13y ago
Say I wanted to know your salary. I could start a secret and enter the minimum minus one before I send you the link. Is there a way to prevent this sort of scenario while letting the service remain anonymous?
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by thirdstation 13y ago
This is a neat idea. I like that you didn't choose to implement another todo list in order to experiment with a new framework. I think the wording of "continue a secret" is a little confusing. I appreciate the brevity but maybe "participate
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by thirdstation 13y ago
What is ethical software? Is netcat bad because you can do bad things with it?
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by thirdstation 13y ago
> I don't think they mean to suggest that all users "enjoy" advertising, I don't think so either :-) I was merely poking fun at the way they co-opted the entire Internet in an attempt to make Mozilla seem like they are on the wrong side
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by thirdstation 13y ago
They did include you: > and the millions of consumers who enjoy the diversity of content and services the internet provides (Ignore the small-i internet typo). Do they mean to suggest that millions of consumers enjoy advertising? Than
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by thirdstation 14y ago
> We’ve heard people say that RSS is a thing of the past, and perhaps in its current incarnation it is, Does the author mean RSS as a format or aggregated feeds being "a thing of the past"? I don't think feeds have achieved their potent
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by thirdstation 14y ago
The non-beta-site version of the article is here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/the-gene-machine...
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by thirdstation 14y ago
I'd like to see all of the nutrition information encoded in a bar code so I can scan it with my smart phone. That would make tracking my nutrition easier (provided there was also an app that could make use of that info). You could then prin
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by thirdstation 14y ago
"If nothing else happens in the next little while, I will eventually buy something else and enter my credit card information again, but I simply do not like this way of not addressing perfectly valid concerns about identity theft and Apple
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by thirdstation 14y ago
spam. it's just a fake article to sell their product.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
tl;dr: "you’re going to have to figure out for yourself"
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by thirdstation 14y ago
> Can a systems administrator really go back into programming? Of course. You could start by availing yourself of the many opportunities to program as part of your sysadmin job. That will give you plenty of practice and a portfolio of u
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by thirdstation 14y ago
I have no idea why but, that thought just stuck with me. I rode a bike through there a few months ago. The outer Philly burbs are indeed a nice place to live.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
Someone I used to work with called Conshohocken, "Workpants, PA" because it seemed everyone walked around in blue overalls.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
Ahh. Then you are mistaken Mr. McGreal. I give no credit at all to the production of academic sausage :-) Yes, it's cheaper to produce an archive-ready article and I think it should have moved into the category of solved problems long ago.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
> I think you give to much credit to the manufacture of academic sausage. I don't understand what you mean by that. I merely point out it needs to be done and most discussions about open access publishing neglect to mention it.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
I read that article when it came out. It's a little hand-wavy on the details. It's good idea to use arxiv because they enforce submission standards. For-profit journals can't do that and society presses try but are not always successful. Wh
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by thirdstation 14y ago
> True, just like Wikipedia lacks prestige and "credibility" now. Note, I mentioned nothing about credibility or it's sarcastic variant "credibility". Though, saying you appeared in Wikipedia is hardly prestigious, and I like Wikipedi

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