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Piled Higher and Deeper, the movie [video](phdmovie.com)
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by rwl 13y ago
It would be fun to see the data in the other direction: where should I move if I know...?
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Land of Plenty (of Government)(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Digital Public Library of America(dp.la)
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Show HN: My weekend project - schoolutils(pypi.python.org)
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by rwl 14y ago
For work: Quine's Word and Object ; Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Language ; Plato's Republic ; and paper after paper. (I am a philosophy graduate student.) For pleasure: just started Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse .
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by rwl 14y ago
Obviously, proposing that we need more independent perspectives does not mean that I think journalists should abandon their professional ethics, or that there's no distinction between news reporting and opinion pieces. Journalists still ne
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by rwl 14y ago
I read quite an interesting article recently about how the newspaper industry is changing due to consolidation. (It's here, but behind a paywall: http://harpers.org/archive/2012/09/0084046 ) This article traces the cause of a demand for o
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How to tell stuff to a computer(lisperati.com)
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by rwl 15y ago
> Debian/Ubuntu doesn't create a root login (by default) at all, so there is no root password. This is true of Ubuntu, but not of Debian.
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by rwl 15y ago
I'm curious about the significance of this. I don't know anything about OS X or iOS development (or mobile development generally). Does this provide a relatively simple way to port apps to non-Apple platforms? Or is more needed than just
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by rwl 15y ago
I have run into errors like this and share your frustration. I mitigate them as follows: 0) I think problems like this are often fixable if you are an APT wizard, which I am not. But sometimes a look at the Debian docs makes an inscrutable
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by rwl 15y ago
It looks to me like this is only a fallacy on the assumption that government employees are like glaziers fixing broken windows: absorbing value that, but for a loss, could otherwise be put to another use. It is that assumption that I meant
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by rwl 15y ago
Huh? Aren't government employees paid in the same currency as employees in the private sector? Don't those employees spend that currency largely in the private sector? If those people wouldn't otherwise be employed, how are their jobs not "
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by rwl 15y ago
I also get empty responses when I try to browse HN over Tor. I assume this is because my IP address looks like a spammer's. I, too, would like to know if there are IP blocks, and what (if anything) legitimate users can do to get around th
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Programs with movie titles (Vim-like browser, PDF reader, and other apps)(pwmt.org)
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by rwl 15y ago
> It was my impression that high schools and parents were the mechanism for indoctrinating youths into community values. Moreover, without playing too hard to personal experience, if my classmates at uni are tomorrow's leaders I'm a gre
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by rwl 15y ago
> Do you think individuals graduating in STEM fields don't pick up these skills? That depends, I think, on what their program is. Many STEM programs leading to a Bachelor's degree are still liberal arts programs, in name and in spirit.
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by rwl 15y ago
"Most importantly, graduates in the arts, psychology and journalism are less likely to create the kinds of innovations that drive economic growth. Economic growth is not a magic totem to which all else must bow, but it is one of the main re
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Reinstate the tax exempt status of Graduate Student Stipends (Petition)(wwws.whitehouse.gov)
3 points by rwl 15y ago|1 comments
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by rwl 15y ago
For those interested, there is a ton of great information on Peter Suber's page about open access in the humanities: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/apa.htm But I don't see any suggestions there for extending open access requiremen
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by rwl 15y ago
Do you have any sense of the state of open access publishing outside the sciences? I am a graduate student in the humanities, and it sounds like many of these mechanisms aren't designed to extend beyond the sciences. Most humanities resea
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by rwl 15y ago
The one app I find essential on my Nexus One is GrooVeIP. It allows seamless inbound and outbound calling over wifi via Google Voice and Google Talk. I use prepaid minutes when not on wifi; I pay less than $10 per month. When I make outboun
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Enough with browsers. We need cars now.(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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by rwl 15y ago
If the flagging is intentional, I agree. But it is also ridiculously easy to accidentally flag an article in a mobile browser on a touchscreen device. I have to wonder how many illegitimate flags come in that way.
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by rwl 15y ago
This, to me, is exactly the problem with most GUIs. If you're spending 80 percent of your time doing a handful of simple, repeatable operations, you might as well be using a typewriter. Programs that force you to work that way are the worst
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by rwl 15y ago
I'd like to see what this curve looks like in other countries. Are we in the US the only ones who have failed to "bend the curve down"?
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24 Hours with Android: Thoughts from a Debian User(whereofwecannotspeak.wordpress.com)
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by rwl 15y ago
You could achieve something like this pretty quick with Org mode and Gnus, I think...the trouble would be getting your non-Emacs-using contacts to send you nicely formatted email.
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by rwl 15y ago
> This is incredibly pedantic, Agreed, but... > and yet, fails to point out parts of the problem. Which parts? You don't go on to say. > Or maybe the guy just wanted to flatter himself in saying that people that does not want t

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