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Pedant alert: "it's" -> "its" :)

I don't have a huge issue with the ACM or even so much with IEEE. But have you ever submitted to or reviewed for Springer or Elsevier? It's an emasculating and thankless experience…

Although reviewership is a useful thing that gets put on CVs, I can't think of a position I've ever seen where "review X papers" a year is part of the job requirement. A more salie…

I've been the organization administrator for a library that participates in Google Summer of Code for many years now. Of the questions that we typically see and the requests we typ…

I agree about the futility of trying to answer this question---that is what the entire article is about after all. But I am a practicing statistician so I feel the need to "well ac…

> And if we go by the assumptions that every possible state in this set of possible states is equally likely (a common assumption in classical probability theory) I know I am being…

> Demanding for a feature without making a case for it. Not using any polite or nice phrasing in a thread. In virtually every case where I have seen impolite issues filed or even a…

Thanks for writing this. It takes a hard head to be an open-source project maintainer and taking a step back and evaluating how to contribute to open source software while keeping …

It really irks me, when a sentence has an unnecessary comma in it, it probably should have been a semicolon instead. Bugs, the crap out of me and I can't keep reading anymore!

I recently finished my PhD and had a terrible relationship with my "advisor"---who left part of the way through to start a startup doing the exact same thing he had brought me on t…