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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:24:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F04625.8050601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4en4pt1.fsf@nyu.edu>

On 24/07/2013 23:21, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 
>> You mathematician chaps could probably resolve this one nicely for
>> yourselves by treating it as just another mangle by Applied
>> Mathematicians      <====== joke   :-)
> 
> Careful what you joke about.  The New York University comp sci dept (my
> home) is part the Courant Institute that also contains the very highly
> regarded NYU math department, one that *emphasizes* applied math. :-)
> 
> allan
> 


Oops :-)

If I told you my closest colleague at work (who designs the algorithms
for most of the code I maintain) has a masters in pure Mathematics -
would we then at least be even?



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-24 10:00 [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2 Pavel Volkov
2013-07-24 10:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 10:13 ` Yohan Pereira
2013-07-24 10:52   ` Pavel Volkov
2013-07-24 10:53     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 10:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-24 10:46   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 13:20     ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-24 13:27       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 15:26         ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-07-24 20:06     ` Willie WY Wong
2013-07-24 20:15       ` gottlieb
2013-07-24 21:13         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-24 21:21           ` gottlieb
2013-07-24 21:24             ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-07-24 12:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras

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