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Another minor quibble I have with these kind of services is that they often only support [pdf]latex, I'd like to be able to use [xe|lua]tex (after having a taste of fontspec/unimath I simply can't go back).
Other than that, great project!
In case epistemology and history are your kind of thing, I most highly recommend reading [2], one of the best book I read on the subject.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_science
[2] L. C. Freeman, The development of social network analysis. Booksurge Llc, 2004.
So I guess it might not be an interesting problem to you, but I actually had quite some fun thinking about it. Which is the most important for a side project, right? ;)
For example, when I was investigating backends services for Tehula, I initially thought I'd run with StackMob, but their HTML5 app model was a huge setback: they are geared towards single page apps, which means I couldn't do any routing on the server side. The only solution would have been to host an app somewhere else and use their REST api to talk to StackMob, which in the end I decided was far more complex than coding my own API.
Needless to say that it is highly impractical… Why not bind the arrow keys?
First, about the cost. I chose to charge 99 cents basically to ensure that the services keeps running: I wouldn't want to shut it down just because it becomes too popular. Next, after doing some market research, it turns out that one of the major uses of cell phones is exactly to ask people where they are, which can be inconvenient when the recipient does not really no.
Sure, some cases do not require exact geolocation, but where you are meeting someone in a large/crowded area it is useful. Another feature we will be implementing in a next version is to provide directions to go where your friend is.
Finally, yes I agree that trust is important. But I believe that this issue is not as drastic as you say since the text originates from the sender — his phone number.
I'm giving out a few promo codes, send me an email at adrien@tehula.com, the first 5 will get the app for free.
My PhD is originally in computer science but turned out to shift to quantitative sociology and social network analysis — with some heavy amounts of compsci.
I'm just completing my PhD, I have already written my dissertation and am waiting to defend (end of August). These past 3 years have been awesome, I was lucky enough to have two advisors who basically let me choose what I wanted to work on and were supportive from day 1. The research I have done, and the results I have found have landed me an awesome job 9 months before graduating. And I've travelled to three continents to present my work.
I admit, this is just one data point, but doing a PhD can also be a great time.
In a conference spanning several days, know before the conference on which day and at what time you are speaking, and know when the social events are. If you are speaking on the last day, or after a social event, market your talk beforehand or you'll have a smaller audience.
Have a bottle of water on stage with you, not soda or coffee. If your talk lasts more than 20 minutes, believe me, you'll need a sip now and then. Taking a short break to drink is OK, you can use the silence to highlight the point you just made.
Speaking of silence, don't feel the need to talk all the time, use silences and pauses, it adds rhythm to your presentation. Don't forget you are the expert, the audience is not, they might need some time to digest the information you are giving.
As an expert, you might want to shove everything you know in your talk. Don't do that, ignore the smaller details and focus on the story. No one care about the small optimization you have spent a month tweaking (unless this is the topic of your talk). Focus on the broader picture.
Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells us there's a "shift" from an analog
world in which our identities are generated from within, to a digital world in
which our sense of self is intimately tied to our social media presence.
My point is, the nature of the influence of others on ourselves has not changed, only the medium this influence goes through is different. And needless to say that this new medium is nothing more than a complement to all others through which we already achieve social presence.
how he increased his twitter followers by 173%
Hue is one of my latest hobby projects that didn’t die after a week.
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer (sudo[ifconfig["-a"]] | grep["-i", "loop"]) & FG
sudo ifconfig -a | grep -i loop &