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I think the answer re tables is the meta-answer for linux generally: copy somebody else who has solved the problem. The Apple IOS-OSX dichotomy comes to mind as something to ape.

I fall into a similar misdirected-focus trap, but mine is simpler: I waste an embarrassing amount of time in editing the wrong damned file. After a sequence of small tweaks that yi…

The journal owns the copyright, not the author.

Re "deprivation ... from everybody"... I was told once that the typical paper in my field gets only two serious readers, beyond the reviewers. (The joke is that it gets only two, i…

I downloaded the new version, and tried it on a docx file that a colleague had sent me. In MSword, the file has 24 pages. In LibreOffice, it seems to have a bit over 5 pages. No er…

Security of data is a moral concern in some circles (e.g. academics outside the USA are quite wary of the Patriot Act) and a legal one in others (e.g. privacy of medical and financ…

Mathematica provides symbolic computation, R does not.

In case it's of any interest, below is code in the R language that produces time-series graphs for two provinces in Canada. fluPlot

Me too. And I didn't realize that made me old, until scanning this thread. I guess time flies.

Not only is this a great thing (well, everything about github is pretty great) but now I know that the funny icon can be called "breadcrumb".

Fifteen years ago, people would have found this interesting.

It might be my eyes, but the video is too blurry to be of much use. A couple of paragraphs would have been preferable.

I've not used mathematica in a long time, and I forgot how crazy-ugly the graphs are. The cartoonish legend in the Out[18] graph is a case in point, almost a lesson in what not to …

They worked in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Countries rely on ethical breaches by the military, so these 'moral' robots are a non-starter.

A better title: "How paperbacks transformed the way people read". Americans were late in the game. The protagonist in the essay was a copycat. Apart from the title, though, the ess…

If the existence of both GNOME and KDE has held back developers who are reluctant to halve their user community or double their coding efforts, then the collapse of GNOME may be a …

I wonder if others have scaled back on the "meaningfulness" of file names. I name a lot of my files (and directories) 01, 02, 03, etc (with suffixes according to meaning) and then …

The keynote talk ( http://cdn-smooth.ms-studiosmedia.com/news/mp4_mq/06182012_S... ) is informative. At about minute 14, the demonstrator tries to show how IExplorer works on the t…

One more thing: there are multiple definitions of "gallon". A lot of Canadians live near the USA border, and many cross the border to buy low-tax gasoline. The volume of a "gallon"…

I forgot how many adverts there were.

FFTs are used in lots of ways. The R function convolve(), for example, uses FFTs for efficiency.

You are right. It's very annoying. It's even worse than having links that are behind a paywall, because at least a paywall usually indicates that funds are flowing to the person (r…

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Science is normally taken to be the study of nature. By that definition, "Computing Science" is a misnomer. Sure, it's a misnomer with a long history, but isn't the point of all th…