So, next May I'm starting as an assistant professor split between the Computer Science and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics departments at Michigan State U., and I'm interested in attracting as many good CS grad applicants as I can from the open source and bioinformatics communities. (I would also like to …
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So, I've been wanting to write a bit about why grad school and academia in general isn't necessarily a waste of time. Unfortunately I'm now a white male in a power position that depends on me sucking good people into grad school and then exploiting them, so this may end …
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Here's a small collection of links to take the edge off my general grumpiness at how much software really does suck. Presumably more will follow.
Firefox will be released with many known bugs.
I switched away from Firefox months ago, because it was so unstable and broken. I'm now using …
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Calling all Pythonistas,
What is your personal list of "modules you love and hate" -- stdlib modules that you use all the time, but that have weak documentation, poor examples, or are otherwise difficult to use the first time?
Here are five modules that I think could use some documentation help …
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Hi all,
I need to find some useful projects for new, young contributors, especially in the area of 3rd party packages; we've been thinking about things like porting 3rd party packages to Py3K, adding tests to existing projects, and providing Windows binary eggs for various packages. Everything would be open …
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So I'm having a little caption contest for this picture of our daughter, Amarie Rose Brown, who is now nearly 6 weeks old (but only four weeks old in this picture).
Captions so far:
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charter.net, my home ISP, is intercepting name-not-found errors and replacing them with a host that answers with a Web search page. This leads to some "entertaining" problems when trying to ssh to a host that doesn't exist.
Is this actually wrong or just sleazy?
In fact, it actually breaks …
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