I do not know if it is the norm but I have also worked at an organization where one employee committed suicide. Leadership said nothing and everything was toned down. Some people spoke up and complained though. My interpretation is that the response was a combination of culture (although suicide is not "taboo" here it is not a preferred topic) and not wanting to bring undue attention to the organization.
Valid reasons for me are: particular interest in a project, desire to learn a language/technique/framework, genuine and intrinsic interest in a community and the open source movement.
Excellent read. I agree with a lot (after only a cursory read). One thing the author seemingly forgives R by not mentioning is how harsh and discouraging of beginners the community was at some early stage. That was my experience around 2002-2006.
Memorization alone and in itself is nothing but just a curiosity. But coupled together with good analytic and connection skills it is an incredibly powerful asset.
This is a very simplistic article. Having a region with competing states is a recognized dimension in the development of Europe and China, but there are others as well which are presumably more important. As F.Fukuyama writes: rule of law, accountability, a state. And as Acemoglu and Robinson write: clear and stable laws that encourage people to invest and develop businesses. Conquering and pillaging colonies, and selling and buying slaves, must be accounted for as well.
It is amusing and sobering to get a glimpse of some of the compexities going on inside a processor and how design philosophies may affect them. Those are things the user or even your normal programmer seldom thinks about.
Exactly. Also there is no mention of how temperatures are distributed and how extremes occur. A +3°C increase does not merely mean a linear shift of the temperature records but also an increase in the spread of the values, often meaning making tails fat, i.e. increasing the likelihood of high temperature extremes.
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My picture is that it's the same. Maybe even worse. Too many academicians for too few tenure positions. Breeds all kinds of metric to sort out candidates for positions. Quantity is king.
I can attest from own experience and that of others around me that rule 8, 'spend time outside' is a key factor for improving well being. Leave the screen and go outside. Now!
I just keep a simple collection of tags, which I apply as I see fit to every bookmark I make. Everynow and then I have to flush a few. No big deal. Main browser is Firefox.
This is interesting and a positive move. It is by no means a new development though. Academia and established publishers are traditional and conservative actors, paradoxical as it sounds.
No, rather the contrary. I delete everything I do not need and can be likely be retrieved easily if the need arises. I only keep important documents, files that are nowhere to be found in the internet, archives of older work that I deem important as examples and record of how a problem was solved. The rest ... rm -r . Same with physical things. Moving and backuping is very easy. Only a handful of times did I delete things I later regreted doing so. And no, I am no follower of Marie Condo.
Very interesting article. It shows the cultural disruption brought upon tradition and a religious canon by a new product. After a long time when the many theological discussions did not solve anything the supreme argument of business interests solved the matter swiftly. Not different from today!
I have seen this too but I doubt it means that they do not have control of spy satellites anymore. Spy satellites are not normally under the control of a space agency, but some branch of the armed forces that can operate relatively insulated from the internet.
IMO the question is more about which standards are used, rather than specifying an specific format. In particular, using open and free standards and formats increases the chance to retrieve and use data after long time storage. Different formats suit different data types.