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12:05 AM
@percusse What about miracles?
 
Top voter of all times, yay! :D
 
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@PauloCereda Congrats! On TeX you mean?
 
@JasperLoy Yes. Of course lockstep still can get the first place again. :)
 
@JasperLoy Miracles are miscalculated probabilities.
@PauloCereda Wow!
 
12:21 AM
@percusse :)
 
You finally did it. That is some accomplishment by itself and catching lockstep is another story
 
@percusse You are close to Joseph now too. :) Since I don't know too much TeX to help people by answering questions, I can upvote questions and answers and encourage the interaction. :)
 
12:36 AM
@PauloCereda Looks like the top row voted for the second row.
 
12:46 AM
:6391165: @PauloCereda: Congrat on being the top voter. But, lockstep ain't that far behind, so you'd better keep this up.. Guess who is one of the lowest voters??? And no wonder @DavidCarlisle is catching up to me... :-)
 
12:57 AM
@PeterGrill I think you have broken the answering speed record. (with a minor typo :P)
 
@percusse Yeah that David Carlise character is keeping me busy. What typo?
Hey, I thought you were about to pass out?
 
@PeterGrill I am actually. Reading the same question for the 50th time :)
Typo : Cdde
 
@percusse huh? How much did you drink?
 
@PeterGrill Enough to withstand a modern dance show + a posh concert without a mental breakdown :)
 
You mean something like Lord of the Dance
 
1:02 AM
Our neighbors are local famous dancers in the Rotterdam something Ballet so usually my girlfriend goes to their shows. This time I couldn't find an excuse in a timely fashion
 
@percusse Oh, Balley!! Yeah that can be a lot of fun. :-) Never understood why strong toes is a big deal. :-)
 
All I know is that you suddenly fall down and then slowly rise up as if your armpits are on fire
Put it in a foreach loop run 50 times and it becomes modern dance
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@PeterGrill Heheh, I'm gonna pass this to them.
 
Just don't quote me. Wow, the use the pgffor package too!!
 
@PeterGrill The Perfect Element of Pain of Salvation is actually quite good if you skip the first piece (in this mood at least :p ).
 
I think if you had a few drinks that really helps.
 
1:28 AM
Warning Strong Language :P
What does Yogi Bear think?
 
2:26 AM
@PeterGrill You can use ([shift={(x,y)}]coord name) to avoid the calc library. For some psychological reason, I think a coordinate is better for a \tikzmark.
 
@percusse Good point, gotta add that to a solution and then I can use it future solutions.
And yes it is a coordinate, not a node, but I had a problem when I attempted to convert to a coordinate -- oh I think it wasin an example like the latest arrow drawing where I need tikzmark to know how wide the text is for which the mark is being applied to.
 
@PeterGrill Ah I see.
 
3:03 AM
Woah, someone has just rapidly upvoted and de-upvoted an answer of mine, again and again … weird.
 
@Qrrbrbirlbel Might be a colorblind like me :) Cannot decide which is which
 
@percusse Oh, is this really so hard to distinguish? Huh …
 
@Qrrbrbirlbel It was now it's better. Somebody might also be experimenting with the system.
 
@percusse Yeah, that's what I figured.
 
Oh wait... you meant upvoting, I was thinking about accept/unaccpet.. I want my brain back.
 
3:11 AM
Ah, still, lightgreen/white and yellow-ish/white may not be the best pair of pairs …
And I want my sleep back.
\bye
 
\end{document}
 
3:35 AM
@Qrrbrbirlbel Probably a new user.
 
3:47 AM
hey @PeterGrill
 
4:20 AM
hey @egreg
Good evening (?)
 
@Gnintendo hello
 
@PeterGrill How has your week been?
 
@Gnintendo busy. Have to stay ahead of David Carlisle -- isn't easy to compete with someone with 25 years LaTeX experience!! Plus have other non-fun stuff to deal with.
how have you been?
 
OK, drove home for the weekend (fall break)
 
where is home?
Hey, its Thanksgiving weekend (the real Thanksgiving).
 
4:31 AM
Oklahoma
 
is that far from school?
 
@PeterGrill (sorry, moved rooms) No, only a couple hours drive
I've been working on that art history study guide some more: github.com/Gnintendo/Art-History-Study-Guide
The main big hurdle left before I start doing a bunch of work on the actual content is figuring out a new way to automatically place all the images
The current method works good, but you have a lot of wasted space if you have long skinny images
That's the main problem I want to address
For long images like the Peplos Kore, there should really be a better way to typeset that (like alongside the image, for instance?)
 
Time to start making MWE and posting questions here, but try to makethe questions generic so that it might be helpful to others as well.
 
4:47 AM
yeah...
 
 
3 hours later…
7:25 AM
More registrations welcome :-)
 
7:43 AM
@DavidCarlisle: I have noticed that you have answers on 21 tikz questions!!!! So, I can only conclude that you are cheating and reading the manual. Well, guess what? Two can play that game!! I just got my first accept for a picture environment!! :-)
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8:10 AM
@ガベージコレクタ: Regarding your question if tipa is able to note down the sound of rain etc.: No. tipa uses the International Phonetic Alphabet, which only has symbols for sounds produceable by your vocal tract.
 
8:25 AM
I just got a first bug report for my only package. Which means two things: one bad and one good. The bad one is: there's a bug in my package. The good one is: Somobody's really using that package! :)
 
@PeterGrill does tikz have a manual??
 
@tohecz Cool
 
@DavidCarlisle Yep, the Tikz/PGf manual is 726 pages, and the associated pgfplots is another 263 pages. So I am hoping that those those 1000 pages will keep you too busy to post more useful answers here. :-)
 
@tohecz Is there a public issue database?
@DavidCarlisle It looks like Robin will come to the UK-TUG meeting, so we will have three LaTeX3 people in one room. Something of a record for me, at least :-)
 
@JosephWright nono there's not
 
8:31 AM
@PeterGrill no M going to wait for Joseph to write it all in L3 so l can do both at same time
 
@DavidCarlisle :-) Ok, good night (or good morning to you the Europenas I guess).... I gotta get up early tomorrow!!
 
@JosephWright one thing he points out is that I'm using e-TeX without actually checking for its presence. But I think that this is a nonsense, almost every package uses e-TeX, right?
 
@PeterGrill It's already tomorrow here! Have a nice sleep. Leaving for a tour: David can run unleashed.
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@egreg Oh no!! I won't be here much of the day tomorrow either.. Luckily I am already rep capped so I know that there is not ahything else I could do to stay ahead..
 
@tohecz \RequirePackage{ifetex}\ifetex\else\PackageError{tohecz}{eTeX required}{We need eTeX, sorry}\expandafter\@@end\fi
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8:40 AM
@Qrrbrbirlbel You mean the special ß for example?
 
@tohecz Always check: for example the ACS (who I work with for some chemistry stuff) have no e-TeX on their servers
@tohecz I have no problem with requiring e-TeX: it's been stable since 1999, for goodness sake
After all, LaTeX3 requires e-TeX + \pdfstrcmp (or equivalent)
@DavidCarlisle On the list :-)
Serious point: I think we want an L3 base layer for drawing, akin to pgf, which deals with the driver layer and therefore makes it possible to do complex drawing. Something like TikZ or pgfplots is 'higher-level' so probably a package to build on that base.
 
9:17 AM
Matlab is evil =(
 
9:52 AM
Yay, Saturday! :)
 
10:09 AM
Wait a minute, so Mitt Romney talked about Sesame Street and Big Bird in the debate?!
Oh my.
 
 
1 hour later…
11:12 AM
@percusse LOL "do not try this at home"
 
@PauloCereda Congratulations -- it was bound to happen at some point. ;-)
 
@lockstep Thanks. :) You are the real inspiration for us voters. Top voter, high rep user, biblatex evangelist, tag specialist. :)
 
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Q: I want to use the apa bibliography style

ZuzeI am trying to use the APA style using apacite bibliography style. The bibliography is generated very well but my problem are the citation themselves in the actual document. They just show author names but not the year when I use the \cite command in the text. How can I solve this. I want to get ...

TL?
@hendrikvogt You seem to be keen on fixing beamer bugs: do you fancy joining the maintenance team?
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11:35 AM
@JosephWright I think so.
 
@lockstep OK, closed
 
12:09 PM
A Chelsea game later today. :) I think @DavidCarlisle will watch. :)
 
 
2 hours later…
2:08 PM
@PauloCereda : Moar emailz
@PauloCereda : What's this scary stuff?: boingboing.net/2012/10/06/brazil-to-roll-out-national-ra.html
 
2:27 PM
@Brent.Longborough Yayz! :)
@Brent.Longborough Wow, this is news to me!
 
Please, what is the name of the package that hides unused equation numbers?
 
@tohecz mathtools.
Or at least, it has the showonlyrefs option that does this.
 
@PauloCereda I'll order one from the reptilian humanoids. :)
 
2:42 PM
@percusse haha
 
@PauloCereda No more evening trips to São Paulo to kill zombies!
 
@Brent.Longborough LOL
 
@percusse : Yarın, I'm flying to İstanbul. Yay!
 
@tohecz Just remembered that showonlyrefs doesn't work with cleveref, which led me to this question, where another package for just this purpose, autonum, is mentioned.
 
2:54 PM
@TorbjørnT. thanks!
@TorbjørnT. no cleveref here
 
3:05 PM
@Brent.Longborough Oh yea? Cool
@Brent.Longborough Business or pleasure?
I don't know what that means anyway :)
Let me know if you need anything. I have underground connections :)
@PauloCereda ow man, I'm rickroll'd again.
 
@percusse Not this time. :) Sadly, Marco is rickroll-proof, he has GEMA which blocks Rick Astley in Germany, thus saving the good people from being trolled. :)
@percusse: this one is better: youtube.com/watch?v=IqJXxHi6RwQ There are ducks in it! :)
 
@PauloCereda :-)
Fez is a puzzle/platform game developed by independent software developers Polytron. The game was initially announced by its creator, Phil Fish, on TIGSource.com on July 17, 2007. It was later announced that the game would come to the Xbox Live Arcade in early 2010, but it was pushed back. The game was released on April 13, 2012 for Xbox Live Arcade. Plot In Fez, you play as Gomez, a 2D creature who lives in a 2D world. That is until one day when Gomez encounters a strange and mysterious artifact; a Hexahedron. The Hexahedron gives Gomez a magical fez hat that allows him to perceive a thi...
Reminds of this
 
@percusse Wow! :)
 
There is a movie called Indie Game or something like that. The author of this is featured in it.
 
@percusse Business - I have a contract with Turkish Airlines. Thanks for the offer of connections; I'm good for a few myself, with the İstanbul Brazilian Mafia
 
3:21 PM
@Brent.Longborough Oh, I hope they keep their promises. Ask for payment in advance :) Lately these conservatives broke many legal laws and the whole thing is a mess.
 
@percusse They're very good clients :) Anyway, I'm going in through a services company, and my contract with them says stuff like "independently of accounts receivable"
@percusse Glad u liked the book!
 
@Brent.Longborough I still don't know any project which would require that much of detailed work though :) I think after some point guys at Github were just showing off.
 
@percusse The two classic git project examples are the Linux kernel, and git itself
 
I'll migrate to Gitorious some day.
 
@Brent.Longborough I feel that most of the precautions are for selfish nerds who think their way is the best and overwrite every fix heheh.
@PauloCereda His voice still kicks butt
can't say the same about his songs though.
 
3:36 PM
@percusse Sounds like a boss. :)
 
4:26 PM
Is the titlepage environment defined differently inscrartcl than in the article class?
@percusse Wait, fez was released?
I thought fez died
 
Back from the tour and all geared up for tonight's session. Garda lake and some mountains; too damp, unfortunately. :(
 
@egreg Welcome back! :)
The landscape looks so beautiful. :)
 
@JosephWright Hmm, it does pique my interest, but I'm afraid I have to decline, at least for now. I already spend way too much time on this. (By the way, my answer from yesterday isn't really a fix for beamer, as I wrote, but I seriously propose my most recent answer for inclusion in beamerbaseoverlay.sty.
 
4:42 PM
@egreg hmm you did lake Garda we did Somerton deep lock, almost the same thing:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Just a little difference in scale.
 
My one frustration with TeX.SX: I've got a question that I'm sure has been asked before, but I now have to red 400 questions to find the answer
 
@Canageek We can help you search. :)
 
@egreg it probably seemed big enough to the men who dug it out (one of the deepest locks in England on the traditional canal network:-)
 
I want my header to be:
<Name> <Title> <Page number>
<Student Number>
 
4:46 PM
Here is Malcesine. The mountains in the background are over Riva del Garda
 
So a two line lhead. But if you put in a \\ you get the chead and rhead on the second line, not at the top
 
It's the narrowest part of the lake, at the northern end
 
@Canageek hmm can fancyhdr help?
 
@PauloCereda That is what I'm using, looking through questions on it. Think I found it
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Q: Right align inside header

StewieI have a header, prepared using fancyhdr. I would like the first row of the left header to be right-aligned with the second row of the left header. In the following MWE I would like "My City" to be right aligned with "University of somewhere" (so that "City" is just above "somewhere"). How do I a...

Now I just have to figure out what is going on in the answer
 
@Canageek I see a big stairs in the background. Looks cool. :)
 
4:49 PM
@egreg see. Just the same really.
@Canageek \begin{tabular}[t] is a two lined thing aligned on the top (or \parbox[t])
 
How do I check if a document is two-sided in scrartcl?
 
@DavidCarlisle A table seems....clunky. Is that the only way to do this?
 
I thought it was \if@twoside
and that compiles, but it doesn't seem to work
Do I have to use it inside \makeatother...?
 
@egreg: Tomorrow is a big day! Juve in the morning, right after I vote, then the derbi in the afternoon. :)
 
@Canageek as I say you can use a parbox actually I only saw the last of your comments so I'm not sure what it is we're doing but if you want two lines separated by \\ aligned on the first then a partbox[t] or tabular[t]is what you want (the first if you can specify the width, the second if you want the width to be as wide as the text)
@Gnintendo @ needs to be a letter else \if@twoside is comparing @ to t so will be false, so needs to be in package or class file or after \makeatletter
 
4:56 PM
Ok, I've read every question tagged fancyhdr and don't see an answer, though it could be buried under a bad title. I'm calling it a reasonable search and writing up a MWE and making a question.
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Q: How do I have a second line in my header?

CanageekI would like to have a header that looks like <my name> <Class> <page number> <Student number> However, I can't figure out how to insert the second line. What I've attempted is: %Page layout here \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{l...

@DavidCarlisle Does that make more sense? Also, now I've got a MNWE to test people's solutions with, instead of messing around in my essay.
 
@Canageek looks like Gonzalo got there first:-)
 
Today I learned that asking in chat gets you multiple answers so fast that I have to wait 8 minutes to accept one.
@DavidCarlisle His also avoids me having to set up a table and load tabluar.
 
@DavidCarlisle I don't like Gonzalo's answer: it adds things that don't belong there.
 
@egreg You've got 7 minutes to write a better one
@egreg But then I don't have to load an extra package.
 
@Canageek A tabular is the right way, you don't need to guess.
 
5:10 PM
@egreg HTML has taught me that using tables for layout is a bad thing
Tables are for data
 
@Canageek What package? Can you think you need a package for tabular? /scratching head
 
@Canageek i was just about to suggest a tabular as well
 
@egreg Don't you need the tabular package?
 
@Canageek Not at all; they are for aligning things. You need NO package.
 
@Canageek no such thing:-)
 
5:12 PM
Oh, ok then. So why is tabluar better? They seem to get identical results
 
@DavidCarlisle I'm having trouble setting up a titlepage
when I set it to twoside, it leftaligns the titlepage
hereuh
let me commit what I have so I can show you
 
Also why did all the other answers disappear?
 
@Canageek they were the same as egregs
 
@Canageek It's the awsomeness of @egreg 's power. (My answer was a duplicate of his, and Gonzalo's answer was more of a quick hack.)
 
oops, meant egreg's
 
5:15 PM
@DavidCarlisle The way I did the titlepage feels weird: github.com/Gnintendo/Art-History-Study-Guide/blob/master/…
 
@AlanMunn Hi Alan! Long time no see here!
 
Would Gonzalo's answer be more correct if I wanted something in multiple places?
 
I'm trying to make it so it's "twoside-friendly" so if I compile it with the twoside option on it will automatically insert the blank page and stuff
 
@Canageek You are not comparing HTML to TeX, are you? :)
@AlanMunn: Yay Alan is here! :)
 
right now this seems to work OK but is it supposed to be moving the titlepage slightly left like it's doing if I do twoside?
 
5:16 PM
@Canageek No, you'd use tabulars as well.
 
@PauloCereda They are both markup, and people get grumpy if you mix up content with formatting in both
 
@egreg Hi. Yes I've been quite busy of late. I've had time to dip in and answer a question or two, but not too much time for chatting, I'm afraid.
 
@AlanMunn Any news about P. Glass? :)
 
@PauloCereda Hi Paulo.
@egreg He's still as repetitive as ever.
 
@AlanMunn Nice to see you here, Alan.
 
5:18 PM
@Gnintendo I don't know the know classes so they may have more structured commands for that but the idea (in the standard classes) would not to put all hat formatting in the document inline but rather just define \titlepage to do something.
 
@AlanMunn What did you do for the 100th anniversary of John Cage?
 
@egreg I listened to 4'33. :)
 
@AlanMunn Undoubtedly his best composition. ;-)
Even I could listen to it.
 
@Canageek A markup language does not necessarily mean separation of content and display, but a syntactic structure that holds information.
 
@GonzaloMedina Hi Gonzalo. I think you were in my pattern for a while too, answering some questions but not chatting too much.
 
5:22 PM
@Canageek \lhead is a formatting instruction. If you are preparing a package for homeworks you'd probably supply higher level commands for filling in the fields. But somewhere you must tell TeX what to do.
 
@egreg That solution breaks easily however: I'll update my question to show the problem
 
@egreg Nice area. I've actually been on vacation, with my family, in Torbole sul Garda three times. All in the last millennium though, so it's been a while since I was there.
 
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Q: Move QED symbol to the left, i.e. at the end of the sentence

john w.I want to make the qed symbol at the end of a proof appear at the end of the last sentence, not at the far right of the same line. Would like to do this the simplest way possible. All I can find online is people using \qedhere to fix the symbol being on the wrong line.

\qed proven, theorem is. - Yoda. :)
 
@TorbjørnT. Very nice town. It's spectacular when you come down to Torbole from Rovereto in a sunny day.
 
@egreg Updated my question.
 
5:29 PM
@Canageek What do you mean with "unaligned"? I don't understand
 
@egreg Canageek and history are on a line below 1 of 1.
 
You wanted the page number aligned to the top, or not?
 
@egreg (looks on map to remind myself where Rovereto is) I should think so. We probably drove that way on our way there, but I cannot remember it.
 
@Canageek I don't think so.
 
@egreg I compiled the MWE I posted and am looking at it.
 
5:31 PM
@Canageek You probably didn't comply with fancyhdr recommendation to set the \headeight to 24pt, as I did in my code.
But I see it perfectly aligned anyway.
 
@egreg Recomplied with that, no change.
This was before I changed it to 24 point, but everything else is the same.
Looks kinda funky as I've got duel desktops
 
@Canageek Oh! You left \\ in the \rhead field. Tsk, tsk. :) Remove it: it doesn't belong there.
 
@egreg Oh! :)
 
@egreg OPPS. That would do it. I'll remove that from my question.
Also, if using my full name, like say, John A. Smith, the correct formatting is John A.\@ Smith right?
Why on earth is my spellcheck trying to spell it artefacts?
 
@Canageek A. won't leave an end of sentence space. Only lowercase letters need the \@ trick.
 
5:42 PM
@egreg Really? Dammit, I don't want to think of how much time I've spent fixing that.
What the? It must be American English, as it uses author, not authour.
 
Knuth's trick is clever; upper case letter set the space factor code to 999 instead of 1000; the space factor code of the period is 3000 (so you'd have the extended space) but the current space factor never goes from below 1000 to over 1000 in one step; so the final space factor code set by the period is 1000. :)
 
Oh, no, I just suck at spelling, authour is wrong.
@egreg .........huh
 
@Canageek "Auteur" for our Québecois friends?
 
@egreg I'm not a fan of Quebec
 
@Canageek That's how TeX works when it has to decide whether to "extend" spaces.
 
5:47 PM
@egreg Clever indeed! :)
 
@PauloCereda The really impressive part is that he was that clever, while still being able to debug his own code.
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
 
@Gnintendo Only on Xbox
 
@Canageek :) My favorite quote from DEK is "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
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@Canageek Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire?
 
@AlanMunn Always good to see you around !
 
6:01 PM
I love my preamble organization: %Page layout here .... %Font stuff here ... %Graphics stuff here ... %Science stuff here ... %Goddamn tables. ... %Citation stuff ... %Other stuff ... %Load last stuff.
 
@percusse Hi. Thanks. I've been busier than usual lately it seems, so not much time for chatting.
 
@Canageek My code is not that different from yours. :)
 
@AlanMunn Are you familiar with Canadian politics? Specifically Quebec's use of the Notwithstanding clause of our constitution?
 
@Canageek Maybe you should use \usepackage{stuff}?
 
@percusse ....I'm trying to decide if I should check ctan and see what that is or if you are joking
 
6:03 PM
@Canageek How many times did you see me talking sensibly ?
 
@Canageek Being Canadian, yes. And I lived in Montréal for 6 years.
 
Persona non sense
@AlanMunn Well, let us know if you need some free typesetting labor ;)
 
@AlanMunn Ah, I forgot that. I dislike the fact they use it, and ignored a supreme court ruling on the issue. Also, 2 months in Kirkland was enough to make me dislike Montreal, due to the blatant bias against anglophones.
 
@percusse I like the "science stuff here". Isn't that supposed to be the part between \begin{document} and \end{document}?
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%Science stuff here
%\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath} %Needed for \text, adds extra math support.
%\usepackage{fixltx2e} %Makes \(\) robust.
%\usepackage[mode=text,per-mode = symbol,parse-numbers = true,parse-units = true,number-unit-product = \text{~},separate-uncertainty = true,multi-part-units = single]{siunitx} %Adds si units and others by name- See the manual.
%\usepackage{xfrac}
%\usepackage{chemmacros}
 
6:06 PM
@Canageek I know, I was just kidding.
 
Science is a serious matter! (what a load of .... by the way)
@AlanMunn I've a quick question for you by the way: Has it always been a standard to make a journal article title as bold as you want in neuroscience?
Let me give you some examples
Trajectory adaptation to a nonlinear visuomotor transformation: evidence of motion planning in visually perceived space
The motor system does not learn the dynamics of the arm by rote memorization of past experience
 
@AlanMunn Hope I didn't offend.
 
CNS Learns Stable, Accurate, and Efficient Movements Using a Simple Algorithm
All of these articles are not conclusive by the way and in strong disaggreement. But judging by their titles I would expect that they have nailed to issues of interest. I have many more but I'm really getting more and more frusturated.
 
@percusse (I started to reply about italics being more usual...) I think this is quite common in all the really trendy areas, and neuroscience is definitely one of those. I guess people just tend to tune out the titles. We don't do it in linguistics.
@Canageek No, but I'm always suspicious of blanket statements about entire provinces or groups of people...
 
@AlanMunn Let me rephrase: I don't like the Quebec goverment. I have no problem with the people who live there for the most part.
@AlanMunn Except those who work on the transit system.
 
6:16 PM
@AlanMunn Well, I feel very sorry for those fresh PhD students about to start on these subjects
 
@Canageek Except for the ones with the "blatant Anglophone bias" apparently. Are those the transit workers?
 
@AlanMunn Yep. There was one nice one, but all the rules are slanted to make it as hard as possible for out of provice students to get student passes, and some of the employees lied about it being possible at all.
 
For those interested in what I do other than (La)TeX, I have a new work webpage :-) uea.ac.uk/che/people/faculty/jaw
No ducks, sorry @PauloCereda :-(
 
@JosephWright How nice, Joseph! Congrats! :)
 
@PauloCereda The back-end is a PITA, I'm afraid, so updates are tricky
 
6:26 PM
I vote for a BibTeX export feature of the publications. :)
@JosephWright looks like some sort of CMS backend going on. :)
 
@PauloCereda I think ResearcherID does that. The university has it's own database (ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/view/creators/c227.html), but I can't edit it directly and it's a shame to have to re-input everything
@PauloCereda Currently Polopoly, but we are moving to a new system soon
 
@percusse A recent article by some psychologists has gotten us annoyed (of course it wasn't published in a linguistics journal, so no real peer review.) Here's my PhD advisor's take on it: facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2012/10/…
 
@JosephWright I've been offered a position with this group: sfu.ca/leznoffgroup
 
@JosephWright Indeed. :( Our "official" academic curriculum - "Lattes" - is a mess.
 
@Canageek Don't know them, but BC is a good department and the research looks varied
@PauloCereda We are moving to Liferay 'real soon now'
 
6:32 PM
@JosephWright It looks quite interesting. Not UBC though, Simon Fraser. Smaller university. I'd probably be working on one of the actinide projects.
 
@JosephWright Cool.
 
@Canageek Ah, right
@Canageek Funding?
 
@AlanMunn I hope the pictures of Broca’s area are in purple, as red, blue and green are so last year Ahahahah
 
@JosephWright In Canada that is provided by the professor. I've applied for a scholarship though, and he'd help me with some more. He thinks my marks are high enough to get one or more entrance scholarships.
 
@AlanMunn: I went to São Paulo last week and was shocked to discover that the government wants to reshape all subjects of basic education an merge all of them into 4 or 5 groups. :(
 
6:35 PM
@Canageek Here in the UK, same deal in that the funding is found by the boss in almost all cases. However, I'd expect (as an academic) to have funding in place before advertising a position.
 
@JosephWright Ah, I assume he does. He's gotten some good papers out recently, and several other professors have mentioned that he does very good work.
@AlanMunn Aren't there languages that use other constructs then order though? I thought that was why Latin and English are so different; English uses order, while Latin changes the ending?
 
6:50 PM
@Canageek At the right level of abstration, all languages are the same. And the main thing is that every language provides evidence for hierarchical structure, and no language that we've ever discovered has syntactic rules that aren't structure dependent.
@PauloCereda What would this mean, effectively?
 
@AlanMunn Terrible things for our educational system. :)
 
@percusse Yes, he has quite a good sense of humour.
 

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