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- What makes a good engineering culture? (quora.com)
- Google paper comparing performance of C++, Java, Scala, and Go [PDF] (days2011.scala-lang.org)
- An academic study of anonymity and ephemerality in 4chan /b/ [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)
- DataWrangler: an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation (vis.stanford.edu)
- Wikipedia security policies (en.wikipedia.org)
- Socially acceptable underemployment (short post about students & start-ups) (ridddlr.posterous.com)
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A friend of mine just asked me: There are many popular non-fiction books addressing the harmony/beauty/philosophy of physics that really stir up the curiosity and imagination of readers. What's the best example of such…
- Write, execute, and share Python data analysis scripts within your browser (ridddlr.posterous.com)
- If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It (calnewport.com)
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We often see headlines in print/online articles proclaiming "numerous scientific studies have shown that X causes Y". My naive question is: What are incentives for researchers to perform replication studies? It seems…