dougmccune

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by dougmccune 9y ago
Everyone is pointing out various news articles that show that people do indeed call CPS when you let your kids play by themselves at a playground. I won't dispute that it happens, but to me this is similar to how we view other low-prob
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by dougmccune 9y ago
Just a minor point but I know actual psychologists (PhDs in clinical psychology) employed by Facebook, so it's definitely not just data scientists running a/b tests.
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by dougmccune 9y ago
This sounds entirely reasonable, and honestly I'd say puts you ahead of many applicants out of the gate. The rest of the discussion on this thread turned into a debate about whether it's reasonable to expect a level of background
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by dougmccune 9y ago
Part of it is showing that you know how to be effective, in this case how to effectively get yourself hired. A huge part of any tech job is about how you approach problems, creative thinking, and figuring out the best way to make an impact
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by dougmccune 9y ago
Just to weigh in on the flip side of this from a hiring perspective, if it's clear to me that someone has done zero research on my particular company, has no knowledge about what it is we do, and has no articulate explanation of why th
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by dougmccune 9y ago
The field of author services (as actual paid-for services, not bundled with journal publication) is an interesting field. Peerwith [1] is one new entrant into the field, which is part of the Springer-Nature incubator Digital Science. They&#
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by dougmccune 9y ago
This is definitely a good example of how with the right conditions a quality journal can be run incredibly cheaply (on the order of < $10 per published article). And it looks like JMLR has a better impact factor (in the 2.4 range) than t
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by dougmccune 9y ago
You can call it bait and switch, but the reality is simple and not nearly as nefarious, it's just about trying to find a sustainable business model. It's either that or go out of business. There's no grand cabal running a con
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by dougmccune 9y ago
PeerJ's APC pricing is $1,095. We're actually an investor in PeerJ and are really hoping they're a success. But they're not a counter-point to PLOS-level APCs (they are indeed still cheaper, but not substantially anymore
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by dougmccune 9y ago
Yeah, so what you describe is basically what's happening now. Piracy is convenient enough for individuals to get around paywalls, but not so convenient or widespread (in terms of use) that universities start cancelling subscriptions. I
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by dougmccune 9y ago
And yet nobody in the industry is doing the work for cheaper at scale. And the noble non-profit players like PLOS aren't able to do it cheaper either. So yes, you can take the stand that literally every single player in the industry re
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by dougmccune 9y ago
The OA revenue stream is meant to replace the subscription one, not be in addition to it (long term anyway). I can't tell how much of your comment is tongue-in-cheek or satire, but do you honestly not believe charging authors for the s
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by dougmccune 9y ago
Oh, and I forgot to mention an important feature, which I often take for granted as obvious but is worth spelling out. much of the work that goes into processing a manuscript goes into processing all the manuscripts that come in, not only t
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by dougmccune 9y ago
> These deals will often have discounts if they publish their papers on this publisher. I've never heard of such a scheme. But on to your larger point: one thing I'd say is that the needs of academics varies greatly from field
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by dougmccune 9y ago
Yup, there are lots of startups and new players trying to change the way publishing works. I think the focus on tools is misplaced (and is often the tack that startups try to take) because it discounts the cultural factors at play in the in
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by dougmccune 9y ago
It's mostly people costs. There's also royalties to societies (the basic deal is academic societies own a lot of journals and license them to publishers for a royalty on sales). And there's tech/infrastructure costs for
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by dougmccune 9y ago
If the order of magnitude differential you're referring to is my rough range of costs of $500 - $5,000 per article, then there's a lot to dive into there. The reason for that range is that we're talking about very different p
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by dougmccune 9y ago
To be clear, this is an opinion piece published in a Wiley journal, not authored by Wiley
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by dougmccune 9y ago
The topic of academic journals comes up repeatedly on HN (which is great) and is inevitably filled with an echo chamber of people saying that publishers add zero value, produce a literally worthless product, and they should all be put out o
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by dougmccune 9y ago
I love the idea and would definitely recommend you develop it further. Have you seen the Climate Change Coloring Book? It did reasonably well on Kickstarter (raised $24k, although after printing and shipping that might not leave much) and I
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Cambridge University Press Removes Academic Articles on Chinese Site(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by dougmccune 9y ago|0 comments
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by dougmccune 9y ago
Elsevier is making a lot of moves to stay relevant. They're now one of the biggest open access publishers (where the revenue comes from article processing charges, not subscriptions). They've been realigning themselves as more of
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by dougmccune 9y ago
This long article about Robert Maxwell does a great job answering your question: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
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Deeply Artificial Trees(vimeo.com)
3 points by dougmccune 10y ago|1 comments
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Off topic: I had the exact same idea for a site, except a darker version. It was going to be thisfuckingkid.com and would be a collection of quotes, just like your site, but that all had to start with "This fucking kid...". I near
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Things I’ve Recently Learned About Legislative Redistricting(mike.teczno.com)
3 points by dougmccune 10y ago|1 comments
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by dougmccune 10y ago
It looks like the entire site changed for this announcement, and now it's not much more than the announcement. Prior to that change there was a lot more information about the products Meta offers. They were building a number of product
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Lots of people pointing out this was likely automated and provided no proof of customer benefit, etc, all of which may be true in this instance. I do have a similar story that impressed me, however. Three years ago I was in the market for m
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by dougmccune 10y ago
We sell an enterprise web app to insurance companies and only this month fully dropped support for IE<11 after a year long campaign to reach out to our large IE 8 customers. The official MS drop of support at the beginning of the year wa
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by dougmccune 10y ago
Ah, I probably misread the comment a bit. I read it as working 7am to past midnight is rare, making 7am to midnight (or just before) normal. But you're probably right in that what was meant was that there are other, more sane working

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