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My current system is emacs org-mode for my inbox and all computer-based action lists, and Todoist for anything I need to carry with me. Since much of my work is done in emacs, org-…

I was on an America West flight to Phoenix in 1999 when David Allen sat next to me. The passenger compartment was bare bones -- no overhead vents, for example -- and I was in a pis…

It (and the book on which it is based) are amazing. Virtually every older applied mathematician has a copy of the original Abramowitz and Stegun, which was supported by the Nationa…

As good as that is, see this: http://dlmf.nist.gov/ , the online companion to the truly epic NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, itself the modern successor to Abramowitz and …

I can see one use case for this family of tools: if the same script could generate either crontab files or launchd agents, so it could generate scheduling files for MacOSX, where c…

From the review, this book seems like a rehash of Taubes' two excellent and well researched books on the same topics. Taubes was the first to make the broad historical connections …

Obviously, Dover can live where he chooses, and like the places he chooses. I don't begrudge him his preferences. But the shallow armchair-quarterbacking from someone who has clear…

I've learned to speak Mandarin, but not Malay. I can read and write enough to read the Chinese newspaper and sing karaoke. It's helpful: it breaks down a lot of cultural barriers, …

I'm an American who has lived in Singapore for almost nine years, in two very different jobs, in two very different parts of the city-state. Singapore has a lot of challenges, but …

Everything I've read from folks at Mendeley misses the point of the disgust. Most people are not concerned about Mendeley going away, or about development stopping, or about new fe…

Those I have a weakness for bespoke suits. I live in Singapore, and have gone to the same tailor for seven years. He's superb, but you can tell from working with a great tailor why…