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by thirdstation 14y ago
>First of all, the reviewers and editors of journals often work as volunteers -- so the notion of cost here is somewhat dubious. The reviewers and Editors (in the editorial sense of the word) are not the largest contributors to the cost
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by thirdstation 14y ago
The new journals will lack the prestige and career-boosting qualities of the established, old-guard journals. It will take longer than just providing another avenue to publication. The incentives for publishing need to be addressed adequate
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by thirdstation 14y ago
No, it would have cost the same. That was, to me, the point of the parable. The initial cost savings was absorbed by the cost of purchasing the additional cars necessary to implement the N/2 fix.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
> Your Credentials Are Worthless Here The impression I got was more along the lines of "We're willing to overlook your lack of credentials if you can prove you're talented." These articles always come off a little pompous to me. But, I
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by thirdstation 14y ago
You can download a free book about privacy here: http://www.lolomgfree.com/ It's to a free Kindle version. I haven't read it yet as I just received the link to it today.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
>There must be enough of us fed up, skilled, and idealistic enough to disrupt this space, creating new, actually modern publishers and/or publishing platforms if necessary. indeed, there are. How do you get them together though?
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by thirdstation 14y ago
SXSW Distributes hundreds of mp3's every year before the festival. Not all are great and not all are PG-13 but they are free and legal to download. Torrents here: http://www.sxswtorrent.com/
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by thirdstation 14y ago
Amusing concept but still hangs on to the print world by organizing articles into volumes and using PDF for the articles.
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by thirdstation 14y ago
They did the same for their perpetually paying customers too. When I signed up for my TextDrive account it was billed as one price ($10/month) forever. Then Joyent bought them and things were OK for a while but I figured that was the end
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by thirdstation 15y ago
It looks nice. I like the simple and functional design. I don't know how I'd use this though. If I want to make pancakes and type that in it gives me six of the seven ingredients required for basic American pancakes. What would be useful i
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by thirdstation 15y ago
Not a very inspiring manifesto. Somewhat confusing. As a freelancer writer, isn't it your job to tell other people's messages (or the messages they want you to tell)? If you want to tell the stories you care about, and only those stories,
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by thirdstation 15y ago
I like to use number station recordings as spooky Halloween music. You can get some from the Conet project: http://www.archive.org/details/ird059
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by thirdstation 15y ago
If English is not your first language stating as much will keep potential employers from being put off by grammar/spelling mistakes. I would suggest looking in the "jobs" section. If stated differently, your question would make a good gener
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by thirdstation 15y ago
I think he is confusing ignorance for stupidity. It's difficult to find good, sensible information about file systems. And I'm only talking about selection for using a file system. If I wanted to develop one, where would I go to learn?
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by thirdstation 15y ago
"It'd be nice if there were a web resource for general guidelines on what it takes to max out hardware. Basically, benchmarks for real-world tasks." Here here!! I had the same thought when reading the first two pages of the article. I'd lo
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by thirdstation 15y ago
I created a customer service app years ago and decided to put most of the database logic into stored procedures. The front end was Cold Fusion and I figured they would get rid of Cold Fusion way before Oracle (which they had recently adopt
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by thirdstation 15y ago
There are a fair number of studies exploring the usage of P2P distribution of scholarly articles. One issue that would need to be satisfactorily (and simply) dealt with is trust that the copy you have is the authoritative copy of record.
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by thirdstation 15y ago
"The biggest problem is the fuzzy line between work and home." This is something you learn to manage. The fuzzy line is there whether or not you work from home. If you are a programmer or other IT type you probably already have the abilit
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by thirdstation 15y ago
The "out of sight, out of mind" treatment is hard to get away from if you work in a office where telecommuting isn't the predominant mode. You have to work harder during your in-office time to create facetime opportunities. That may mean do
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by thirdstation 15y ago
Thanks for the better link. It sheds more light on the story. I failed to make my point clear. I guess what I took umbrage with is the lack of imagination with which the homeowner tried to solve the problem. You can react negatively to a
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by thirdstation 15y ago
I thought this was a business-oriented site. Just suggesting the obvious.
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by thirdstation 15y ago
Instead of acting disgruntled or indignant why not just post a sign with the correct address or coordinates? She could sell water, sunscreen or snacks since Google is hand-delivering potential customers to her door. Then she wouldn't have
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by thirdstation 15y ago
What about frustrated? Too much process, too many clueless managers, too hard to get work done? Sometimes boredom is a result of giving up the fight.
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All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup(motherjones.com)
5 points by thirdstation 15y ago|0 comments
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by thirdstation 15y ago
I've always thought this type of person was called a 'generalist'. I like devops a bit better. The problem I've found being a devops-type person is that hiring managers have a hard time figuring out what you do and why you're valuable (aut
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by thirdstation 15y ago
What _are_ the other ways of creating a globally-unique id?
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by thirdstation 16y ago
I'm deciding that his article is a troll. He had a deadline so he strung together a bunch of ideas HN readers would hate. A classic contrarian article.
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by thirdstation 16y ago
For me, the beguiling aspects of entrepreneurship are financial independence and personal freedom. I can't figure out the author's motivation for writing that piece. If you hire someone and teach them so much about your business that they
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by thirdstation 16y ago
"More important than great offices, a cool logo and a function spreadsheet is a sustainable, differentiated, profitable idea on which to build your business." What is meant by a "function spreadsheet"? Is it literally referring to a spread
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by thirdstation 16y ago
yeah, me too. a NoSQL replacement for tar.

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