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pentadactyl add-on for firefox. Allows you to browse like you were using vim and allows you to script anything you do on the web. Vimperator isn't nearly as powerful and all the ch…

recent improvements in all solid state dye-sensitized solar cells show more potential for lowering the cost of solar energy.

That is the question. All of the materials are expensive themselves (gallium, indium) or expensive to process ( silicon) - which means these cells will never scale and replace oil.…

especially when you throw in citations for scientific articles. Which often require compilation of the citation database, citation order, and citation insertion. Adding 3 more step…

I use a similar setup with vim+latex+git for chemistry articles. It works amazing for me. I feel like it is the most powerful presentation setup and most efficient editing setup cu…

Scientific writers do need branches. When there are 10 authors on one paper all suggesting different paragraphs/figures/equations at different times.

How many of these options penflip, draft, etc are actually open source? I'm looking for very specific features on the level of Latex libraries that would never make it into a for p…

I'm using latex+vim+git for this purpose currently. I put two spaces after a period to signal the end of a sentence in Latex. Which helps me break the document up by sentences with…

Latex has line comments and since it is compiled into a document you can place line breaks anywhere. It does break the flow of the sentence though. I've used Latex+vim+git to write…

Scientific writers do write like programmers code. There are as many as ~15 authors on a paper. The scientific paper has intensive markup, often in Latex. And collaborative writing…

I'm an American born graduate student in Chemistry lab at an R1 school and the funding landscape has been a very hot topic throughout the department. No tenured professors have sai…