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| bio | website | users.digitalkingdom.org/… |
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| location | San Francisco | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 2 months |
| seen | Sep 6 '12 at 8:29 | |
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Working on an Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) at San Jose State University (CA, US); hoping to become a data curator for earth science datasets. Current data interest: Arctic sea ice, especially historical data gleaned from old whaling logs. Also have a great fondness for maps and information science history. Currently working as a software tester for a biotech startup (www.cytobank.org). Auntie to two adorable girls.
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Apr 20 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Dec 11 |
awarded | Student |
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Jun 24 |
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What is a good synonym for “interesting”? "Compelling" is perfect; I want to talk about a concept being interesting to me in relation to an interest I have, and I loathe using the same word twice unless it is poetically appropriate. This Stack Exchange answer came up on a Google search for "synonym: interesting" and has helped me in the nick of time. Thanks! |
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May 5 |
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Is this correct sentence? "Least bit" could, of course, be appropriate if this was a sentence from a mathematical or computer science-oriented document and the "least bit" being referenced was in a number or a byte. |
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May 5 |
answered | What are correct words to use in order to name a user that updates something? |
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May 5 |
answered | What's another word to mean “a way of thought”? |
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Apr 27 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Apr 27 |
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“I have received” vs. “I received” Nitpicky: you need a semicolon where the comma is, or you need an "and" after the comma. Otherwise it's a run-on sentence. (You didn't ask about that, but as long as we are trying to be excrutiatingly correct, I thought I'd point it out.) |
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Apr 25 |
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What is the term for a string that is made up of fixed-length components? Fantastic; thank you! |
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Apr 25 |
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What is the term for a string that is made up of fixed-length components? I agree that this is a pretty outdated concept. However, the format I am working with--International Marine Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format--is a string with fixed-length portions with the attendant danger of a missed character meaning all following portions will be incorrect. I am creating an XML schema to ease data input with the hopes that someone will write a parser to take an XML file and turn it into this unwieldy string. In the documentation I'm writing, it is this rigid format that I am trying to emphasize, so to me it is the most important attribute. |
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Apr 25 |
answered | Which definition of commitment is correct in this sentence? |
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Apr 25 |
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What is the difference between “something else” and “something extra”? I'm curious about the vehemence with which you ask this question. Were you marked down for using "extra" instead of "else" in an assignment? |
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Apr 25 |
answered | What is the difference between “something else” and “something extra”? |
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Apr 25 |
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What is the term for a string that is made up of fixed-length components? Apologies if this belongs in a computer-science-oriented community instead. |
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Apr 25 |
asked | What is the term for a string that is made up of fixed-length components? |
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Apr 25 |
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“How about” and politeness "Going hungry"...so extreme! (And very funny.) |
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Apr 23 |
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“How about” and politeness I agree with all of that. |
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Apr 23 |
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has changed and is changed Thank you; you are right. However, I'm right in spirit; present perfect is used to "say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now" (from englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html, a site I cannot vouch for but which validated my gut feeling). |
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Apr 23 |
answered | “How about” and politeness |
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Apr 23 |
answered | has changed and is changed |
