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This is exactly my experience, recently I have sometimes worked 9-5 got nothing done and gone home feeling like shit for being so unproductive. Then, to make up for it, I would fin…

As in every number in that set is a subset of the larger set of x < y < z. Poor language choice it's not true, yes I was wrong. I am just curious as to how much laziness and not ne…

Does laziness have anything to do with the responses? You get a rule that seems to work and so you seek the reward early. It takes effort to prove yourself wrong. I was trapped by …

Great article. I am a instructor for Software Carpentry[1] , the goal of these workshops from my experience is to try and help mostly scientists get started on the journey to becom…

These slides are great, I was thinking of presenting something similar to a bioinformatics lab group I am a part of. Could I adapt some of these slides?

I think that a smile should never be forced, for two reasons. 1. I want to find people who are genuinely passionate about what they do. 2. If people are truly unhappy not being o.k…

>Growing up 'smart' made me stupid. I agree and also have faced this problem as I was in the gifted programs all through school, then into university. However, in my third year of …

Thanks for the useful list. The only problem with these things is that they require some time, effort and expertise to set up, which the average citizen may not have. I understand …

I guessed some of the next steps, and considering I have the automobilic knowledge of the ancient greeks, that was pretty impressive. An education in how to present to a lay audien…

This is seriously an awesome and well executed concept. I am working in genetics lab that studies complex disease. Many of these diseases have many environmental component and ther…

https://www.dropbox.com/jobs . They hire for a wide variety of roles with some quite specialised knowlededge. I would expect they do not want anything different from the big tech c…