Brian Danielak @capbri@social.cleverlibre.org
@gvwilson I think I once saw Patrick McKenzie advise if they want an expectation and force you to put a number, put 1. If you get to the negotiation phase, you can talk more about whether your/their expectation is reasonable without pinning yourself to a number.
@ben any chance you could send me a pre-print of this?
Are there any #rstats academics (or recovering academics) out there who are using Rmarkdown/Quarto to generate their curricula vitae? I'm having some trouble with Nick Strayer's data-driven cv package and I'm wondering if there's an easier way. @kellybodwin @kjhealy @travisgerke
Brian Danielak
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Struggling a lot to find maker time these days and it's really having an impact. To be a researcher you need to be a reader, and you need to iterate, and you need to design....we're not vending machines of insight that people can just line up to put quarters into. But it does feel like research gets treated that way sometimes!
Brian Danielak
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This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.
@shriramk that sounds like an interesting paper! I've been trying to find examples of professional programmers solving problems outside of contrived laboratory settings. Could you share the citation info?
@gruber which Markdown editor is that in your screenshot?
@isabelizimm Which method do you use to publish? The "check the generated site files into version control" method or the "use CI to build the site on commit pushes" method?
@amyjko "Eduroam: Instead of fast internet somewhere, how about slow internet everywhere!"
Brian Danielak
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music; Semisonic
@gvwilson I teach a lab-based introduction to engineering design, and during the last ten minutes of class we blast this song to remind students it's time to clean up. I never get tired of it.
@gruber if the original Yankee Stadium is the second-finest ballpark ever built, what's number one?
@gvwilson I get that ArduinoC is low-level and possibly needs to be to be able to handle directly reading and writing to pin, but come on. My students shouldn't need to learn pointers just to de-complexity their repeated instructions.
@gvwilson For many students in my class, this is their introduction to programming. I hate to think they'd walk away feeling like programming is about repeating a bunch of instructions over and over, instead of, to paraphrase Abelson and Susman, the act of managing complexity.
I teach an Introduction to Engineering Design course where students program Arduino-powered robots to autonomously navigate an obstacle course. I keep wishing I could have a conversation with @gvwilson because I think ArduinoC actively encourages *bad* software engineering practices. Yesterday I had to tell a student that it would be more trouble than it was worth to try to extract repeated behavior into something like a function, and my heart sank.
@kjhealy @jennybryan Thanks for the insightful blog post! I was curious, though: which function takes that argument?
