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This is exactly the reason. Academia is a business just like any other. Academics do what they are incentivized to do. I guarantee that if NSF, DOE, NIH and the other US government…

Yes. I currently work in academic CS and my group regularly writes papers in LaTeX, Word, and Google Docs.

#1 is the reason I abandoned Fedora too. Things change so quickly and break so often that it was too much effort to maintain the machines I was using it on. I replaced it with Cent…

I agree with your sentiments about Java. I wish I could just have my GOPATH contain 1) the source directory for my project, and 2) one or more directories with versioned Go source …

If the goal is to fix Go package management, then I seriously doubt that using anything from Python as inspiration is going to be helpful

This captures exactly the reason I am thinking about leaving academia. I got into research because I like doing research, but you can't have a career in research anymore. After com…

I wonder if we will need to have a license to operate a self-driving car. Certainly we will need a driver's license in the short-term, but after some time when people trust that se…

I was thinking the same thing. When is something just a library, and when is it something more? Think about concurrency in Go. Goroutines are cool, but what makes them more than ju…

That's cool, but I wish they had spent the time making Google Maps usable again.

This is a good site to visit if you have these kinds of data transfer issues: http://fasterdata.es.net

"Defense attorney Joshua Insley still believes that police used a stingray to find Taylor. He cited a letter in which prosecutors said they were prohibited by the Department of Jus…

ESNet has a good website for high-performance data transfers: http://fasterdata.es.net In addition to host and network tuning guides they also have a list of data transfer tools, i…

The head of HP Labs explained this in his talk. He said it is called "the machine" because 1) they are researchers, not marketing people, and 2) they started thinking of it as not …

I think HP has a bigger vision here. They aren't looking to build a new car, only this car has electric batteries, they want to build a plane. They announced two OS projects: a mod…

Memristors are new technology considering that you can't buy a computer that uses memristors yet.

I think it is more of a dig on academic operating systems research, which some say hasn't made any major breakthroughs since the 1980's, possibly because we have been stuck on the …

Memristor's aren't the only interesting thing--they also said it would use new optical interconnect techology, which would contribute much of the speed and energy efficiency improv…

I saw something like this the other day at a stop sign. Normally there is a lot of traffic going through this stop sign at rush hour, but it doesn't get backed up. The other day th…

When I worked at AT&T some years ago they had an entire team of about 50 developers and testers working on identifying problems in AT&T's myriad billing and provisioning systems. T…