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As I was reading the complaint about net 90 I was thinking about GE and the unheard of 120 day terms. I'm glad it isn't just me.

I was thinking the same thing. I really enjoyed reading a candid perspective of the process, but think there's more that can be done.

You almost need a second page 'GumroadTunes' where I can browse all the products. I strongly suspect there is a lot I'd be interested in, but it isn't in one place. The website justifiably focusses on the product for creators, but since there are a lot of thinm, it also feels like you could be driving more traffic/sales to them, and by extension yourself.

Again though, thanks for the interesting read (and the comments too - also interesting to read).

I just googled for the thread I remember reading, and it is namebright that is apparently linked to them: https://www.scottphillips.com/post/2010/buying_a_domain_from...

This is the thread where someone mentions they /had/ their domain with namecheap, which is why I confused them: https://www.namepros.com/threads/held-hostage-by-huge-domain...

Personally I've never used either - I'm in the UK so it is different companies (oneandone are who I've used, who have been fine)

hugedomains, as mentioned above for being one of the worst, do this. They own their own registrar/are part of the same company / some convoluted ownership structure (namecheap LLC I think)?

They really are the worst. I got in touch with them to buy one, as unfortunately they had one that I needed for business (speculatively registered on their part). When I asked how much they wanted for it, they then doubled the price to $10000 (9 characters, not commonly used words).

In the end I went with an alternative TLD. it isn't as good, and I'd have been willing to pay a decent amount for the one I wanted (even their original price, reluctantly), but I refused on principle when they got silly.

They are just parasites.

There are a lot of reasons I like running, but the one that hasn't been entionet yet is that races have a defned beginning, end, and outcome.

I work doing analysis, which is never truely independent of the last one. Projects go on for a long time, and at the end of a week you're never truely sure you've moved forward - just like in code you occasionally have to trash it and start again. Or your paper gets rejected - back to the drawing board.

On top of that, so much of my work is so ephemeral - will anything really change as a result of the analyses I do? How much of a decision is driven by them? I love my work and take pride in it, but I'm also realistic that there are a lot of other factors in play.

When I run however, I know what I have to do, and at the end, I've done it. Training session of 6x3 minutes? After 3 reps, I'm half way there. That certainty is gratifying, and not like the rest of my working life.

After that we can talk about the health, the movement which feels good rather than sitting in a chair absolutely all the time, and so on.

I fully agree with you. I always take my running kit when travelling, and when a meeting finishes will tend to leave my bag, and go an do an hour in the local park in the light. Trying to arrange to meet one friend is hard enough, many? Near imposible. Even making it to running club once a week is <50% as it requires negotiating with wife work dealines, work travel, an so much more.

Cycling is similar - I know doctors who are avid cyclists as it works so well. When they are on call they have to be available and can't go anywhere... perfect for the turbo trainer.

I'm doing Boston this year, it's a flight from the UK. In total It'll be $2000.

... my race to qualify was £40 entry, petrol (£25?) and £3 parking (I only put 4 hours on the meter from when I arrived to give myself even more incentive).

So as is so often the case, a range in an article is uninformative - it tells us nothing about the normal experience and leaves us all extrapolating from our own experiences!

Yeah the $3k figure I can believe, but then again Chicago is one of the World Marathon Majors. There will be another marathon aroudn Chicago that'll be <$300 all in.

Phones, Tablets, Mac computers, Cars, iTunes Music, App sales, Headquarter building, Share price, tax strategy. There are a lot of things that take up bandwidth of senior management. We've all seen many companies where something doesn't get the focus it could were it not for other priorities.

Is this absolutely the reason the laptops are a bit crap? No, but it is plausible that the lacklustre offering in hardware comes from the lack of it being a priority for the company. It certainly doesn't feel like a priority for them, and the offering doesn't feel like a lot of strategy has gone in to how it has evolved over the last few years - contrast that with the iphone.

Fully agree. This is exactly what I've been trying to do :-)

Was there not also a point where a new MBP with USB-C only, and a new iphone wouldn't even be able to be connected out of the box?

Looking at it, yes Box works that way, but G Drive does not without some kind of third party integration, and even then for limited storage: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/webdav_services

My system does seem to work pretty well, I just prefer it when things are very much plug & play. It stops you screwing anythign up, and makes it easy for non power-users to get things done.

I've yet to meet anyone who has had magsafe that didn't think it was brilliant. I'm also assuming it's now patentented so nobody else can make something similar.

I did find it annoying however (in a precursor to Apple becoming a company who make dongles) how I had to buy a tiny magnetic block to use my v1 charger with my next laptop.

It will still take up senior management and board time. THis is something recognised accross corporate governnce - see recently GSK spinning off it's over consumer health and the counter portfolio of drugs, to focus on what it's core business is; novel pharmaceuticals.

Yes you don't want to be a total one trick pony, but if you do everything, you do nothing well.

Genuine question - why make zotfile and not adding things to Zotero directly? After all it is open source. Zotfile adds a lot of useful things that feel like they should be in the main program, not optional extras.

I'm not a programmer however, so this may be very naive question!

I think you meant to say "when my paper is rejected, I can trivially change the format of references to whatever the publisher of my second choice journal wants without any effort" ;-)

My library is about 4gb, and will probably hit 6 or 7gb in the next year as I make sure I have a copy of all papers in it. I'm already paying for G Drive however (previously I had One Drive), and would rather have one bill, and everything in one place (control over my own data, and all that).

Easy to leave? They are good about that.

Respect the filesystem? Erm, again we're in the world of the murky where it probably is possible with Zotfile, but out of the box, it wants to rearrange them in to folders like 'MN8YD'. I've made my peace with that, but if you are very touchy about it, try it with a copy first and see how you get on.

So I work over a home PC, work PC, and a laptop. I'm already paying for limitless Google Drive, so want to use that. It kind of works, but is not a simple option - you have to set certain directories to sync, and not others (otherwise: corruption). I'm guessing box is similar?

I didn't realise there was a full time team as well. As I said I am grateful it exists, and advocate for Zotero to be the preferred option for nearly all opportunities.

It is fair to say though that it isn’t as well resourced as others, and is also starting from behind. As long as that momentum continues it should eventually be the de facto solution (iff Mendeley are going to make user unfriendly choices), but as yet I don't think it is comparable to the behemoths like R that have maturity and continuous development and thus are superior in every possible way to the paid alternatives (Stata, SPSS).

Zotero has improved a lot, though sadly it still has a way to go on the user experience of Mendeley. My main gripes are

- The way that it still doesn't play nice with cloud services (syncing the directory and its just a matter of time until you get database corruption. It takes a lot of wonky setting up to get it to kind of work, which just shouldn't be the case

- The lack of developers and thus slow pace of improvement. I'm a researcher not a programmer - which I think describes most people using it. That means unfortunately we are reliant on one or two volunteers to improve the product. The pace of improvement is slow, and theres also no way to meaningfully advance it - be that through offering bounties for someone to implement certain features, just inputing lists of bugs/feature requests (the list is already v long, and doesn't move much), or anything else.

It's a really good bit of software (and I don't want to sound ungrateful), I just know it still has a lot of quirks. This means it can't always do what you want, and it isn't an easy obvious choice for new researchers - Mendeley is certainly more familiar and easier to use.

So it was not developed originally as an Elsevier product, they bought it around 2013 I believe. By all accounts until this, they've also been fairly faithful with the way it's been managed and updated. It is certainly more shiny than Zotero, but I was too nervous about the potential for them doing something like this that I chose zotero (I was moving away from EndNote at the time, which is just too quirky).

I hate being right about such things. This is exactly what the fear was when they bought what was a fantastic piece of software, and doing really interesting things for researchers.

I gave this a try, but sadly it came up short. For writing a single paper of MSc Thesis, it might work. However it just doesn't seem suited for handling a large number of references for a variety of projects, which get called on frequently as standard references in papers, reference material, and much more.

If it helps I have just under 2000 papers in my Zotero. It isn't massive by research standards, but it is substantial.

I use Windows. Most of my work is in R, with reports written in Word. Everything is basically cloud based (Slack, invoicing, GMail, etc).

This generation was the one that made me finally give up on MBPs, and now I'm even more glad. The lack of 8th gen intel, removal of magsafe (an innovation they were previous, rightly, proud of), lack of actual touchscreen, and ever increasing prices. Other friends who do a lot of photography (a key market for apple!?) were miffed at the removal of the SD card slot.

I went for a HP Spectre and have been very impressed. touchscreen changes things entirely - reading papers is a joy. Giving a demo is easy with a 360 degre hinge so i can prop it on the table... oh and it was half the price, for better specs (the resolution is crazy).

I'm still open to MBPs in the future, as I loved my 2010, 2012, and 2014 versions, but they need to look at what made them great for the 'pro' market, and think about how to servie that, not just turn them in to a more expensive version for the image conscious.

I switchd to a HP touchscreen. Sounds like a gimmick, but it gives you a much faster way of working for big buttons (new mail, etc)

Check out the Spectres for quality and value. I've been impressed.

That was my take also - when eating 5000 calories that a lot of it is pure carb 'fuel', yes it's a low protein %, but probably a similar protein amount (in grams) to a standard diet.

Regisered just to respond to this one :-)

Working as a junior analyst at a large pharmaceutical company we had a tender document arrive due in 2 weeks for a massive amount of money. Being generally super keen I was given the brief 'can we do anything in this time period? If so, do it!' - usually our models take 4 months to build, and cost ~$100k.

I used meta-analysis our our trials vs the main competitors for each age group (children, adults, elderly), cross referenced to the age structure of the population i.e. number at risk in each group. This showed because of the numbers at risk our drug looked better.

I then included data on the harms and connsequences in each group, using past data, and added in monte carlo analysis around the uncertainty, which gave a massive chance of of ours being the optimum strategy.

It was only a part of the case we made, but was delivered in 10 days at a cost of $600 (software licenses), and really helped show what I could do. People still mention it now (it was 10 years ago). My boss at the time was also amazing in giving me freedom, but then helping communicate it all.

I've worked on some really cool projects in my career, but that's probably the one I'm proudest of.