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They are really annoying on non US keyboards.

The common user don't really uses them, therefore they aren't even mapped in eu keyboards. Clearly the solution is to change the mapping, but as you can imagine, many people still need to look at the keyboard when typing... So how do you fix that?

I can teach my wife to code python, but if she has to type alt-gr 123 for every curly brace in JS, she will be tired quite soon.

I'm not saying is a bad idea. I think a doctor has to be smart. But that said, I'm not convinced that my doctor need to know all the nuances of Diels-Alder, and pass OrgChem with top grades.

But, thinking further, I do not really understand how the evaluation is done.

What does that A grade really means? It means he has a grasp of what benzene is, or that I can hire him for doing my syntheses?

The system is very broken. I hope one day we'll have some serious D&D-like rules in our instruction:

   MD: 
       Org Chem >8
       Surgery >14
       Int >16
       Char >14

   OrgChemist: 
       Org Chem >18
       Surgery >4
       Int >15
       Char > 3

amen

I'm not sure I agree with this:

     "First and foremost, an idea is never world-changing. It's the execution of the idea that changes things. Until it has been executed successfully and actually changed the world, all it is is an idea. The impact can only be assessed later."

Frankly, I believe ideas can be quite impactful. Think of any math concept. Weren't they ideas? Where's the execution? Or more philosophical terms, such as panta rei, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.", "communism" etc, aren't those ideas?

My point is that I think boundaries are not as defined. Unless we spend some time defining "idea".

but on the general "stop whining, start doing" underlying message I do agree 100%.

I'm surprised I've not read "they were tricking young teenagers in sending pornographic materials in 4chan/b/ rate-my-penis threads".

In both cases cheating is a sympthom of a larger issue: in case 1, requiring your doctor has an A grade to in organic chemistry is BS.

That's why they are called breakthroughs! :)

Zynga chef, if they do have one, has probably been feeding pubic hairs to the authors of this bs. Since 2011.

the applications for cap limited H1B are in april, and you'll have it in october if you are one of the 60,000 lucky ones. If you get it in any other time of the year, is because you work for an university or no-profit. Here, H1b is broken refers to the cap-limit one. H1 from the university/no-profit is a joke, since the visas are not counted towards the cap, and I feel they damage the game for everyone else.

Btw I do envy your good luck.

removable house:

    come back from holidays
    someone has stolen your house

If polish is going to be his 13th language and he has already strong bases in russian and eu languages, I don't see why it should be impossible. Keep in mind that is not true that is one hour. Is all his life learning other languages that is applied here. (there's a famous quote among artists about this that i cannot remember right now...)

Anyway my point is, that you are able to pick up CoffeeScript in one hour if you are fluent in javascript and python, aren't you?

I believe few of the points he made were remarkable: the intonation/accent is definitely true. Walk like an egyptian, is really true, full immersion too. I also believe 3 months are a reasonable time for a B2 when those points are granted.

Then I admire, and envy, that he has time enough to go around the world and learn new languages for the sake of it.

The feature he's saying is that mac os preview allows you to take a picture of a piece of paper with your signature on, and then places that in the pdf. You should implement this - or at least try it. There's no dragging mouse that will be ever be close to how natural this feels.

And bridges!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/bridge-stolen-in-cz...

>Learning for learning's sake is actually pointless

I can't disagree more.

Learning latin, ancient greek, french,italian, portuguese and spanish, C C++ JAVA Javascript, ruby python coffescript and groovy, lisp clojure...

Studying the patterns help being better user of each language. Consider it a "classic" coding education. Is totally worth the time. Especially because after a while, you see the ideas, the broader picture, not the words or the code.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

spherical harmonics! Cool to know that aren't only used in quantum mechanics :)

Please. Stop.

Can you imagine your hammer writing you a mail every day "you know you can use me hammer to ..."?

those are awful ideas. Especially since nowadays every app require registration and mail authentication, and is it impossible to test it without. And that often you have to try 3/4 before finding some satisfying. So, please, I'm using your product, eventually paying, but If you think we are friends now you are wrong.

You are providing me a tool, and I'll be happy to share my productivity increases if any with my friends etc. And that's where it should end. Focus on a decent documentation instead.

lol. They also tried to convince stockholm to give one to Berlusconi few years ago

http://silvioperilnobel.blogspot.com/

The best part is that those nominations are useless. Nobel prizes have no transparency on this, or as the article says "nominations are kept secret for 50 years".

I've been in the community 5yrs now. And I've seen a little bit of everything.

This is my favorite one so far:

    A, B, C write paper, submit to his pal D.
    D appoints E,F,G as reviewers.
    C, and E were in school together.
    F was a C student.
    G sends the paper back to C to auto-review it. 
    C cannot be bothered, so delegates the review back to A.
    A reviews his first name paper.

    (poor phd student B doesn't even know)

yay peer review!

Let's not forget about self-sustaining communities:

15 erasmus friends cite each other, and peer review each other.

In few years, one/two/ten of them will be also editors of more or less decent journals (Impact factor usually between 4 and 12). Most of them will publish 10/15 papers per year, on their companion journal. Which is a good throughput for having founds.

And if one is caught saying bullshit, 14 "experts" will protect him.

As an example see Stellacci story here http://raphazlab.wordpress.com/

Seems very easy to steal. and 200$?

I'll buy mine second-hand at the black-market ;)

careful: there's a difference to point out here - Visas are for entering/exiting the country and are the stamps on the passport. Then you can stay as long as you have your residence permit.

Example:

    #when you enter the country you get 
    DS2019: 1yr #residence permit
    Visa: 1yr   # from when you enter the country
    until you leave the country:
      if your contract get renewed (DS2019++)
      else illegal

the visa in your passport is worth nothing when inside the US. the fact that the two are confused might be very misleading.

A good compromise is to use something like Grok. https://github.com/jordansissel/grok

A valid Taxes specialist, Doctor and Attorney, are the first thing to find when you move to a new town. It should be the same for startups, as is even more important. I cannot believe this common sense get overlooked.

nowadays, most of the front end development relies on grunt. After you configure livereload(grunt-watch), you will never hit refresh again. So if you integrate sweet.js in grunt, it is a breeze to use. Same holds for sass, compass, uglify, rev, etc, etc...

I recommend this read on the topic.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stam...

to me seems a very niche protocol written for physicist from physicist. Usually this means that there's an equal probability for it to be an awesome or horrifying experience. I've been offered a job which has to deal with that, and I'd like to make my mind wether is something worth working on, or is better to stay away.

But for what i remember, neither illustrator or photoshop cs5 alone did fit in that.

EDIT: http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilt... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362428,00.asp

25 bucks a month for students is not that bad. And 50 month is totally reasonable. I find it much more accessible than before. And honestly I think that's less than the money the average person here spends monthly at coffee-shops. Or in one night out!

Here's how you can afford it: avoid eating 5 sandwiches in a posh bar per month, and cook sometimes by yourself.

Which is why, every time I travel, I end up with all the cards blocked. I hate you visa.