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How's this: https://asmeurer.github.io/python3-presentation/slides.html

There's a great talk on this [1] by Raymond Hettinger where he argues that style guides (e.g. PEP8) are no alternative to thinking hard about the code. Blindly following rules (lik…

"Jesse" not "Jeese"

Tried pandoc with markdown?

Exactly, and it's not like papers are collections of 'facts' that can be extracted anyway. Papers are long arguments based on some data choices, some analysis choices, and followed…

Having submitted to that journal before, I suspect the authors just ticked a check box that said something like "Relevant ethics approval was obtained for this paper".

Or flip it around - what if the next time Facebook sees you post 5 negative things in a row, it decides to positively skew what it shows you? i.e. trying to cheer up depressed peop…

Seconding the pandoc approach. I've written articles in markdown (+citeproc) and then used pandoc to convert to LaTeX or MS Word. Easy, clean and elegant. I think it provides all t…

Yes, words change meaning, especially when they're imported across language boundaries. Originally mana DID mean something like spiritual power, and is heavily linked to terms for …

Absolutely. After messing around with various combinations of rsync/ssh/unison/s3/glacier/etc for a few years, I bit the bullet and paid for Crashplan. It's cheap - the family plan…

Awesome. I'll keep an eye on this, thanks.

I think this is an artefact of how science is taught: In 1953 Watson and Crick published a paper on the structure of DNA. Everyone smiled and nodded. In my experience it's more lik…

Absolutely. I see peer review as a way of - hopefully - filtering out the most egregious crap, and fixing the worst errors in papers while rounding them off. I feel all these debat…

I agree. Compare what happened in New Zealand when John Key and the National party ousted the long-term Labor government. Despite some major missteps from Key/National, Labor's spe…

Don't go to Australia. We're mostly locking up asylum-seekers on small off-shore island detention centers. This is not a good thing.

Don't forget Bokeh[1] - a replacement for ggplot2 [1] https://github.com/ContinuumIO/Bokeh

The way things are is not necessarily the way things ought to be.

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano

I've been doing all my editing in plain text (vim if you must know) for about 6 months. Then I use the wonderful PanDoc [1] to convert it to anything I need (usually PDF, sometimes…

From their website: "Fancy Hands can purchase things for you. Yep, if you ask us to buy toner cartridges, lunch, or tickets, we can handle it. First off, security is our number one…

I wasn't aware that Sean Parker was a noted expert on privacy and the implications thereof.

The line graphs are ggplot2 in R ( http://ggplot2.org/ )

Yes, but calling it all "trolling" lumps it together. In the replies to your comment you can see people equating trolling to everything from slight teasing to serious harassment. T…