From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kevin Buchs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.orgmode Subject: Re: General advice beyond Org Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 08:50:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7dc580d0ea76c21328dc586ffadb5499@openmail.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526652240 6685 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2018 14:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 14:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org To: edgar@openmail.cc Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 16:03:56 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJfz8-0001bh-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 16:03:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJg1F-0005eP-G2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 10:06:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37733) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJfmK-00008t-Oj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 09:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJfmJ-0007QH-DC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 09:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qt0-x244.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::244]:45362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJfmE-0007My-82; Fri, 18 May 2018 09:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-qt0-x244.google.com with SMTP id j42-v6so10278547qtj.12; Fri, 18 May 2018 06:50:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=qeh6Mx+kkrRrqG5SFsEK/nsleW4OhzjAsfEPG8nIfY8=; b=ZNGb7NcjRI/TbjvDwZqxHwE78HZh8RpWT8dy6uz4WJC4nh6/rwmiHCHjbX7UzNj6Hj a7p8dZs3wmvkAnquNCe1GLOe3wE94YV2hQ6GjK800PS9+NaiRd8lcR0gv8TJEevjgiCw ykt8YNSdame6XA1vfBdYrtJHWwtcbunLW6uLP5YuccUoc5afS84K9XWVVnGpZgtCnsnv K59lWp4NIAVx344vYkc2aY4pFmYClhHelKO2O/qCwPErpW2bzO7sRSvpcdnBeXbkGkT+ Kh4ljqchhzlwQjrIq6qO7Z5XFIHVYKop44s2LDkpcgAtWLM1GoTxS5MKCK/FUTcnHFr+ Xtug== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=qeh6Mx+kkrRrqG5SFsEK/nsleW4OhzjAsfEPG8nIfY8=; b=L1h1d2WUR3/WVH59RcOD9XQkgIH1K+Mr47HdnK6QVD05KfGMKeOLCtjZqV90QPs4FX 1vu42plszoE8xOioomKmpmpaHs1NE5k7gjodyRLIQpKlKRkjXhOK3Cma/lrjk7doXCEt DqdNBjxIsUmt1XpDtjNRApVQFkvUXRv0c3bnN4I4ooN7pqTa7nGmD2WrTidapc7RtAzO 0qyoBLUGl/aNx4nNvG+IfRel78RuGQgG3xwB5W+nht87PeUIMY0BXNDSE77r3DNKx98e BQHQGAPPuLsBxU9mAzbt3czepie3XX2rzPxYix3yXbgqMesb/E9P2rTaZwJgWWjTKVZi tqMw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwfv72HjkOlHwmQUwhxYjDyR/zPN7oixHUHqHvYmIKNO+wP1zUZg hheP7QGoiH2YUNeZWl8oA7wnm9egAJD8JazXr5E= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZp0GOeIBZI47EjmWWbIfGTMl0pUHbFHgbKfS0sqTZpjiHEMW8NG0pd9HrjqCpk5wB21DeAk31G6Grv+XE6+40k= X-Received: by 2002:a0c:e449:: with SMTP id d9-v6mr8743099qvm.64.1526651433291; Fri, 18 May 2018 06:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.12.141.131 with HTTP; Fri, 18 May 2018 06:50:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7dc580d0ea76c21328dc586ffadb5499@openmail.cc> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::244 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116764 gmane.emacs.orgmode:120450 Archived-At: As a student, you simply need to go along with your supervisor's recommendations. You are not in a position to dictate the terms. Using the proprietary tools will not hurt you, unless you need to buy your own. If it were the case that you needed to buy your own, then I would ask your supervisor for another solution. Even as a Junior faculty member, you may be in close collaboration with other faculty and should follow the consensus. That is how you work with other people effectively. You don't keep asserting that your solution is better. When you are calling the shots, you can use the tools you wish. So, you need to adjust your attitude. It may be that you are presenting the issue of principles - I prefer free, you prefer proprietary, but that is not really the true issue. Maybe you don't know the proprietary tools and don't want to learn them or feel you can't learn them. Choice of tools you use is no reason to switch graduate programs. This is entirely a matter of getting along with other people, not being selfish, etc. These are life skills we are talking about. Kevin Buchs On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 7:28 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > _I_ need help. I am in graduate school, and I keep having issues with my > advisor for my strong inclination to use free software. I am obviously not > in position to refuse, but she dislikes to have discussions about it. She > pays a stipend to me every month, and my tuition is waved. > > Is anyone here aware of a place where they do computational human > biomechanics, mechanics, materials or finite elements where I could > interact with free software? (having github, LaTeX, Python, etc.; avoid > Micro$oft products, Matlab, Mathematica, etc.). Is there no place where one > can simply use free software on a daily basis? > > It seems from her comments that I am, otherwise, a good researcher. She is > a nice person, but I fear that this may become an issue in the future for > me (whether with her or other people). > > As a student or junior faculty, how do you go about this? Do you just nod > and wave your freedom good bye? > > Thank you! 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