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I briefly looked into this myself ( earlier in my life ) and decided that the "make a boatload and distribute it yourself" method really wouldn't help that much in scientific fundi…

There's a small but growing amount of "research software engineers", people who attempt to bring professional-level software development to scientific research, and help scientists…

Absolutely, yes. The other comments here have some fantastic reasons for doing this, and several do a good job of weighing the pros vs cons. The paper alone is, almost always, neve…

I recommend using isync (aka mbsync) https://isync.sourceforge.io/ to download an offline, IMAP-style copy of your email; it seems to be faster than offlineimap http://www.offlinei…

Do you mind posting a link to your dissertation? That chapter sounds interesting!

I've read probably every HN thread the past 10 years about this, and the current consensus seems to be either Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition or Lenovo X1 Carbon.

Many of those jobs are done by the same academics as authors and reviewers who also work pro bono or for very little money as well.

Why does working a Bullshit Job have to be about ritual or tribal identity or anything else, when the most important thing in that person's life is putting food on the table? Even …

There's a free (legal!!!) HTML version at the "UC Press E-books Collection" http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4t1nb... Generally speaking, I find that the more…

Have you tried Pandoc[0]? It's the best, simplest solution I've been able to find for writing content in Markdown, and then almost trivially exporting that same content into PDF ma…

That ComputerLanguages repo, wow! This is really awesome! And far, far superior to my own store/collection of helpful links by language by far :(. I may just stop altogether collec…

Will def check it out, thanks!

More people have independently recommended this book to me than any other. Now I HAVE to read it!

The last time I was at a crowded museum I spent roughly 20% of the time just trying to avoid getting in the way of people taking pictures. Everyone was taking pictures everywhere o…

I think it's at least very helpful in building emergent knowledge, knowledge of connections between things that, only after experience / long-term processing, you realize are instr…

The primary author is the central driver behind his own Rippe Lifestyle Institute [ http://www.rippehealth.com/ ] who, turns out, partners directly with Coca-Cola [ http://www.ripp…

Do they have the mathematical power to say it's unidentifying information? Is it just that that information, on its own, isn't identifying, or is the test that, with all the other …

Another PhD student, in computational neuroscience (modeling of thalamocortical circuits). The difference between the level of code-sharing and code community between general purpo…