Instead of Research

Here’s to the list things you are doing instead of research. I wasted some time by organizing the categories into logical clusters of endless misery. I wasted some more time finding people who agree with my complains.

• Back up.
• Hard drive space is not enough.
• Free space in local or personal network is not enough.
• University sponsored sync program does not sync.
• New computer, sync between your own files.
• Re-install life, yes you are going to use custom preferences.

• Deciding whether OS A or OS B is better.

• Deciding you should use a double boot.
• Being delusional and wishing to have just one copy per file between multiple OS.
• Compatibility between different OS running on different people’s devices.
• Compatibility between people.

• Proprietary software.
• Excel.
• Track changes didn’t work.
• Likely that co-worker didn’t track changes.
• Filenames are not useful.
• n copies of the same file. Everywhere.
• MYfile_Version_3.044_final_seriously_I_promise_OKFINE.something

• Reference managers

• WYSIWYG vs LATEX

• LATEX fonts and templates.

• Special characters (as in anything outside the English Language).

• PDF does not compile for X reason.

• University mail is not compatible with gmail.

• R working directory.

• MATLAB PATH.

• Working directories, paths and beyond.

• Packages, libraries, modules, snippets of codes that updated and are thus incompatible.

• Making meaningless lists like this one.
• Making meaningful lists of things you will never do.

• People writing dates in notoriously diverging formats.

Reuse

Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{andina2018,
  author = {Andina, Matias},
  title = {Instead of {Research}},
  date = {2018-01-07},
  url = {https://matiasandina.com/posts/2018-01-07-instead-of-research},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Andina, Matias. 2018. “Instead of Research.” January 7, 2018. https://matiasandina.com/posts/2018-01-07-instead-of-research.