This month, I’m teaching biostatistics for National University, and so far I am really enjoying it. There is just a really minor problem, though. While I received a copy of the textbook, I did not receive a copy of the instructor’s manual with answers to the homework problems. Since I am going to grade 20…
After a fine, productive evening of coding PHP and javascript respectively, The Invisible Developer and I were discussing how to find a developer. We’re making good progress on 7 Generation Games and we’re pretty happy coding our own stunts. We did have someone come in to pinch hit last year when we were running behind…
I was wrong. Somewhere along the line, I got the idea that women did CSS and HTML and men did “real” coding like PHP, SQL, Python, Perl, javascript etc. Since life had taught me that predominantly male fields always paid better than female ones (construction workers get paid more than licensed practical nurses, for example),…
I am old. I remember punched cards, COBOL, dumb terminals and having to walk over to the computer center and load tapes on to the drive if I wanted to use large data sets – large back then meaning 100,000 records or more with a few hundred variables. We thought that was pretty big data….
What the hell is WUSS? Why would *I* ever go to anything with the name WUSS? It’s not just so you can get the cool hats which double as lunch bags, although that’s one possible incentive. It’s also not just so you can get your own original, signed illustration of the difference between ordinary least…
If you have a problem here are the 3 most likely suspects 1. You’re a professor and uploading a file. Connect using FTP. It seems like every program I have on my computer is set at SFTP. Change that. 2. Trying to log into the web editor with your email address. You have a user…
if you read yesterday’s post (and how could you not!) You were treated to my scintillating tale of my experience with Microsoft customer support where I called five people and got five different answers to the question about upgrading to Windows 8.1 Pro. Although two people did give me the same answer, one person gave…
We’re out at the USDA Small Business Innovation Research commercialization training workshop and one of the presenters said, “You as a small business owner, have a great advantage over the larger companies. You think they have an advantage but you’re wrong. Customer service in this country is TERRIBLE. You only need to not suck to…
Well, this morning started out annoying, and not just because I had to be at LAX at 8 a.m. I am sitting here trying to analyze an SPSS file someone sent me last night and I get this … Command: CORRELATIONS Incomplete (truncated) SPSS Statistics data file: /Users/annmaria/blahblah.sav Execution of this command stops. I tried…
In some ways, this has been an extremely productive week and it’s only Monday, although when you work every day, it’s hard to say when your week starts. Sort of a zen-like question of where the circle begins, isn’t it? I’m not complaining. I love my work so much it is hard for some people…