Interesting and relevant links I found.
16th October 2010
Find out more about the depicted office. That would be a nice setup for flight and/or space simulators, I guess.
TinEye Firefox extension helped finding more nice workplaces.
And Stefan in his office description provided some more links to multi-display workplaces – Mitch Haile’s and Kevin Connollie’s among others.
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16th October 2010
In my previous post on CUE sheet support in Linux music players I mentioned DeaDBeeF. Unfortunately, DeaDBeeF is not yet available as a Debian package.
Fortunately, Alexey Smirnov (the author of DeaDBeeF) maintains a github repository deadbeef-debian which has simple instructions on installing DeaDBeeF in Debian (citing with minor edits): Read the rest of this entry »
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14th October 2010
Nature published the said survey based on responses of over 10000 employees in science. It has lots of multi-axis data to explore, and some major trends are discussed in the special report. Highly recommended for anyone considering science career changes.
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3rd October 2010
Recently I finally managed to configure remote (aka off-site) backup for my Debian server. As always, I started with a comparison of existing solutions.
Debian has a number of packages enabling remote (over the network) backup: backupPC, backupninja, backup-manager, dirvish, duplicity, luckybackup, rdiff-backup, and some others.
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23rd August 2010
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
— Bertrand Russell
Only marginally related: Dunning-Kruger effect
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11th August 2010
DreamPie: the Python shell you’ve always dreamt about!
• Type your code in the lower pane of the window. To execute, press Ctrl+Enter. One-liners can be executed by simply pressing Enter; If you don’t want them executed, press Space and then Enter.
• Use Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down to navigate between code segments you’ve already executed. You can write a few letters before pressing Ctrl+Up, and DreamPie will only search through code segments starting with those letters.
• Press Tab or Ctrl+Space to show a list of completions to the current expression. It will also complete file names!
• Your results are stored in variables named _0, _1, and so on.
• Type a function name and press the space key and DreamPie will automatically add parentheses for you!
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10th August 2010
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