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I don't know much about copyright law but presumably these were technically public domain already, even if they weren't generally available. I wonder whether they are still of use to scientists.

I agree entirely about the colours but I copied them from the Wikipedia version and they seem more or less standard so I didn't want to buck the trend. Maybe I'll add a high-contrast option.

Thanks for your suggestion - added to the list!

I'll try to make it mobile friendly but it might be difficult. There is a huge amount of information crammed in to the table but I will try to think of something.

I'll put that on my todo list. This is very much the first version and I have many enhancements planned.

I thought it might be something like that. Thanks for the explanation.

I included a tilde in the title and it and the text after it disappeared. Strange.

Thanks, I'll look out for those.

I've seen that, first of a trilogy I think. I'll give it a go, thanks.

You'd be very unpopular using it on a train or in a coffee shop! It's great - maybe make desktop and mobile versions?

Even the Tardis was silent?

They were made for use in TV and radio programmes so need to be of the highest quality and well indexed. I assume the BBC employs people to go out and record them. I also assume they licence them to film companies and other TV companies.

My dad did the sound effects for the local amateur dramatics group and he had a few of these records. He would record them onto reel to reel tape and edit them with a small guillotine, sticking them together with special tape. Incredibly primitive and time consuming by today's standards.

I would certainly install Ubuntu or Mint as a dual boot. It comes with plenty of software such as LibreOffice, Firefox and Gimp which I use all the time.

I currently use Atom for coding but I'm not sure how good that is with RoR.

5 to 10 years is a lifetime in this business. That's like asking what cars or aircraft will look like in 50 or 100 years.

Writing software isn't really "bootcampable" if there is such a word. You need a significant amount of time to gradually absorb knowledge and skills.

I renewed my certificate a few days ago. I think it took about 2 hours.

A while ago I started playing with the geolocation API and tying it in with Google Maps. I might try to use it with Bing maps which I think is better, at least aesthetically. It looks more like a real map.

Depends what area you work in but as you are on this site I assume it's something nerdy :) I would like to be better at graphic design, nothing to complex, just the ability to design better icons, favicons, button graphics, blog post banners etc.

Working on it! I've just renewed the certificate and my hosting company seem to have screwed up :(

I am in the UK so I apologise if this is not relevant to the US, but here banks provide payroll services and many small/medium businesses use their own bank.

I failed to reject the null hypothesis that this article is not uninteresting.

This is just a part of an increasingly serious problem in all areas of human endeavour. Our projects are becoming so big, complex and lengthy that they are effectively unmanageable with the methodologies and expertise we currently have. In one way being highly ambitious is a good think: if we were always thinking "we'll stick with doing what we know how to do" we would never progress but we need to control our ambition so they don't get completely out of hand.

Isn't teaching or mentoring others a requirement for a PhD? It has traditionally been seen as a route into university employment at the lecturer/researcher/professor level. It is a lot more than just the next qualification up from a bachelors or masters degree.

Anybody interested in astronomy will be familiar with Arabic science and mathematics during what in Europe was the Dark Ages, for example many star names are Arabic, but for most people in the west it is completely unknown.

Strangely, I don't know! Everyone I know might be regular Twitter users but I don't think I have ever discussed it with anyone. I have never told anyone I know that I use Twitter, and vice versa. I hadn't thought about it before but it seems strange now.

I agree with gus_massa about Python as it is probably the simplest mainstream language but in recent years has moved way beyond being a toy/educational language to major commercial use. Try building something "real" like a simple program to store details of your DVD collection, a calendar/diary or whatever. Most importantly forget about being 60. It's irrelevant.

I've got a book called Building Django 2.0 We Applications published by Packt. It consists of several different complete solutions, the first and main one being a simple IMDB type site.

I think the controversy and confusion about functional programming stems from the difference between procedural and OOP programming. The switch from procedural to OOP which occurred in the 1990s was basically all or nothing - with the languages of the time, mostly C++, it was a full paradigm shift.

People probably assume it's the same with FP, ie you have to do EVERYTHING as FP whereas in fact with current mainstream languages (eg JS, C#) you can just drop in bits of FP whenever you feel it is appropriate. It's a tool in the toolbox, not the entire toolbox.

That is a very clear and concise description, with obvious applications to algorithms. It might also be worth adding logarithmic plots, for example plotting data on an equally spaced scale of 1, 10, 100, 1000 etc. Also some units are logarithmic, for example bels (more familiar in their tenths as decibels) and the Richter scale used for earthquakes.