klancaster

I am a backer, after having discovered logseq as a viable alternative to Roam. Great project, and a great and responsive team building the system.

I just moved to a new university that uses Canvas, and while it is not perfect, it actually does not cause physical pain when entering data.

I worked with a non-technical manager (banking background, somehow wormed his way into managing development) who never asked devs what they thought a task would take. I finally convinced him that this could not possibly work. I sat with him the first time he asked a dev how long the current task would take. The dev said "4 weeks". This guy said "I think it should take 2, so that is what I am putting in the schedule". Mind you, this guy had never written a line of code and had NO basis for his "thought" on the task length.

Scrivener is fantastic - used it throughout my doctoral studies

Headspace has been great for me as well. It has helped me in quite a few ways, including helping to reduce anxiety.

Except for searches on Google Scholar, ddg is my primary search engine. Very few times have I found that I get better results in Google.

Which extension do you use in Emacs to get the symbols?

Google did not come up with this - JetBrains developed the language and use it to develop their tools.

It has instant messaging as well, so I think that is the difference.

We are expanding it to a number of skin and ocular diseases.

It is a bit of concern, but we are not out in the wild yet so we have time to look at ways to protect the IP.

At this point, it is university research. The work has been published, and we are in clinical trials in prep for commercialization.

We analyze images of skin lesions and give a probability whether they are malignant melanoma. The analysis is performed on-board on mobile phones.

I first felt this when I was asked by a sales rep if I would be interested in coming to work for his company since I had exactly the credentials and experience they were looking for. He said he would talk with the head of development and get back to me. Time passed, and when he did get back to me, he said that the dev manager was looking for someone under 35 and that my resume - which did not have my age - told him that I must be older (I was around 45 at the time). In retrospect, I should have sued, but instead just let it drop.

If you are on a Mac, try https://freron.com/. I moved to it from Mutt. It uses Markdown to write emails, has fantastic search capabilities, etc.

No, dead mathematicians

I would caution others to be careful about school policies before taking this approach. I teach in a university undergrad program and storing grades off campus is considered a violation of university regulations as well as FERPA. Putting projects on Github or Bitbucket is fine ( I do this as well ) - its the posting of grades that is problematic.

Some did use SourceTree, although I emphasized the command line more. Perhaps I should move toward having them use the GUI versions.

The windows support was one of the issues that I was considering. I think you are right that it is a bit better than Git from that standpoint.

My gut has been Git as well, since I have always used it in commercial development. My guess is that the companies the students are going to use Perforce or a commercial tool since most end up in energy / oil related companies that tend not to use open source at all. That said, I'll see if I can get more info on what they are using. I don't have control over the first class they take (yet) but I do agree with getting them started early. Most of the programs (CS,EE, etc.) don't even teach version control at all at the undergrad level, so I am doing what I can to remedy that issue.

You are definitely right that they are not comfortable in the command line. They do get exposed to it quite a bit in the curriculum, but not prior to the Java class. I have been using Vagrant in the senior class, and quite a few of the students end up installing Linux for RoR dev. It might be too much for the sophomores however.

Sorry - should have been clearer. These are undergrads in a 4 year bachelor of science technology program. They are not CS majors, so they have limited programming background in general.

I use markdown (in Scrivener) for my academic writing, and include raw LaTeX as needed for equations. I used Word in my masters' thesis many years ago and will never go that route again - too many issues with Word being "smart" with bullets, etc.

Probably good advice, but the first thing that came to mind in reading the article was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIETlxquzY.

I use OO/Libre Office in part just because they did not follow MS' lead on the ribbon. I have never found the ribbon intuitive personally.

I used darcs years ago before switching to git. I liked it a lot, but git had more support/momentum so we switched. Camp looks interesting but also seems dead based on the mailing list archives.

Old or not, I really don't get the whole "flat design" trend. Its ugly, at least to me, and reduces usability overall.

One of the classes I teach is at the senior undergrad level, and they have been thrilled that I have them use version control. Many have commented that they wish that they had known about git in earlier classes, as it would have saved them when they screwed up their programs.

Ok - nice functionality, but why is it called Omellete exactly? Am I the only one that is getting tired of projects whose names mean nothing? Cucumber anyone?

I was a 3+ pack/day smoker for many years. Quit cold-turkey 27 years ago. I had tried Shick (electric shock aversion therapy), some sort of injection, you name it. Just quitting finally worked. Many days of being non-functional, but I've never gone back.