OldGuyInTheClub

Wow. I was actually trying to get pricing on a MATLAB Home license and couldn't get signed in or initiate the webform to Sales.

I sent an email to their info@ account and heard they were having some problems with their online systems. Didn't occur to me that it could be or is a cyberattack.

Very interesting collection and I learned a lot of history and norms that I didn't know. Thank you for this! Bookmarked.

I could have made contributions in line with the support and advantages I have been given.

Matlab fan here. I've been very impressed with how the product has grown over the years. Its documentation is especially superb. I've been able to get great overviews of signal processing, physical simulation, and many other topics just by going over the examples.

Putting that spade in the ground will trip the mines, though. Didn't Elon threaten to primary anyone who doesn't salute?

Agreed. They followed this cohort for decades and this was the conclusion? It reads like an update from the pitch drop experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

Well then, we are in for a very deterministic, not-at-all-chaotic future.

"Ve vill haff order!"

Were they friends or his downline?

Of course, "Further research is required." ;-)

More telling, "This study utilized a unique longitudinal dataset drawn from a sample of 235 men who were originally recruited as Harvard University students between 1939 and 1942."

Pretty bad, overall. I got diddlysquat out of LinkedIn when I was job hunting 10+ years ago but then I got nothing out of my other leads, either. I was old back then and older now so I am staying at my employer until I'm fired, retired, or expired. LI may be required these days to get anywhere, I just adjusted my travel plans so I didn't need to deal with its BS or the general Talent Acq/HR gauntlet required to get past square one. Probably not helpful to you but there it is...

Well said. I tried and bailed on LinkedIn about ten years ago because so much was forced happy-talk like this article. I think this author is writing earnestly but there is a load of pressure on everyone to think and speak this way even though it makes zero sense for their specific cases. I think it may be called "toxic positivism" in that context.

> And I think it might even be against the guidelines to imply it ever does

I was not aware of this. Thanks.

I read the tips and thought, "Well, good for him I guess?" It is easy for very successful people to write homilies like this but what worked for them may not/will not work for most. This guy clearly has a few more brain cells than the average person and was in good environments. To his credit, he made the most of them and contributed greatly to his field. When I hear people mumblefrotz about "passion" my skepticism ramps to 11. This is the stuff of management consultants and motivational speakers. A very few can write their own ticket, the rest of us have to make do with what we can get.

In my case, I wish I had worked much harder and with more focus in my youth and early to mid career. Whatever time I did take off I should have spent differently. Hell, I should be doing something more worthwhile right now. Can't go back of course but I expect to think that way even in my last moments.

Yes, that's my point. The objective is to overwhelm the society and its institutions - a disease that stresses the host's immune response until it breaks. The lower courts will stand by since the ultimate court is in the bag for this guy.

The tech owners seem to have gone the other way with their votes (few) and money (big).

You're right... I can't find it by scrolling. I thought this site was all algorithmically ranked? Are there people throttling material critical of SV and/or other topics?

By the by, is it possible to see where a post is (or isn't) in the numbered list from within the post?

Good luck with that.

Not seeing it happening. The base thrives on this. e.g. disabled reporter got mocked, no consequences.

I think that's generally true but I've noticed that there are a couple of people in every cohort who have the right stuff. They're good and everyone knows it, including themselves.

Glad this post was revived after being dead for some reason.

I couldn't read the whole article due to the paywall. I wonder (now that my knee has stopped jerking) whether they consider non-tenure-ladder professorial positions at universities as 'academia'. e.g. adjuncts, lecturers, staff or contract researchers, lab administrators, ...

Sample of one: No regrets. It was a tough regimen and I got filtered out of academia. But, I grew immensely throughout the path and got to be around some exceptional minds. I shoulda/coulda have worked harder and been more daring.

I would have expected a higher percentage. Few openings and a high bar for whatever there is. It was tough to get an assistant professor job 30 years ago and I can't imagine what it must be like now.

Good on him. Won't be a drop compared to what's coming.

It got installed on a recent OS update and I don't see any use for it. I'd much rather have the calculator do scientific notation properly than any of this frippery.

Good overview before the Higgs discovery.

Often?

I used to wear HP t-shirts in the era of this article; "ENTER > =" and would earnestly argue about the wonders of RPN over algebraic notation. This is a wonderful glimpse at the algorithm that made that magical "Solve" button work. A couple of years ago I saw but neglected to save an article about how HP implemented all this in the chips of the day.

40+ years later I note that my day-to-day work either never uses the capabilities of an HP-34C or requires crunching more tabular data than a calculator can handle. While I still like RPN, I would not like to enter RPN expressions into the programming languages I do use. As great as it is in calculators, it is damn hard to revisit and figure out what I had intended let alone what someone else's code may have intended.

Damn shame what happened to the HP company and reputation in the intervening years.

n+1 to the Category comments.

Feature request: Allow planning by days following Authorization to Proceed or similar undefined start date. I realize this runs into its own problems but 99% of the time I don't know when that date might be yet I need to lay out a schedule to support a proposal to get the funding to do the job being planned. Weekends, holidays, and other specifics are less important than a view of task relationships and milestones over weeks and months.

Even the huge MS Project cannot or will not do that.