cmckay

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by cmckay 11y ago
The tension in education between the study of skills (what you would call preparation for your career) and the study of values (what you refer to as creating "well rounded people") has been around since the Ancient Greeks [1]. Mo
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by cmckay 13y ago
This is true for some fields, at some schools. Median salary for an associate professor (the first rank with tenure) at my institution is 63k.
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by cmckay 13y ago
A better way (in my opinion) to ask the question of whether or not your business model is sustainable/ethical/scalable is to ask the question: are you adding value? I think in this case, the answer is clearly yes. Dealing with f
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by cmckay 14y ago
I'm surprised they didn't mention the best tribute to sriracha of all: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha
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by cmckay 14y ago
One data point: I teach at a small liberal arts college. Our endowment is roughly of the same order as our annual budget. Annual draw-down on the endowment is 4.5% or so, which means that the rest of the budget comes from tuition. If enro
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by cmckay 14y ago
Although most keyboards nowadays use Alt for Meta, they were distinct keys on some older keyboards. I personally never used an MIT Lisp machine, but I have used Sun keyboards with a Meta key. It's also fun to note that EMACS is an acronym
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by cmckay 14y ago
This is more a meta-comment about slideshare than about this presentation in particular. I really like being able to access the slides of talks I've seen, but for talks I haven't seen, there often is just enough that's missing from the slid
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by cmckay 14y ago
The problem with capping highly funded projects ("hits") is that they make up a pretty small percentage of the Kickstarter project space, but they get a ton of press. It varies by category, but in most of the categories, the projects doing
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by cmckay 14y ago
Are people hiring freelance/part time for data science work? I'm a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, and would like to move my career in the direction of data science. Picking up a client or two for smaller/short term proj
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Looking at Kickstarter Funding Rates(tachycline.com)
1 points by cmckay 14y ago|0 comments
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by cmckay 14y ago
Yes, because it's clear from the context of the article that's what the author meant: "Kickstarter intentionally makes failure a hard thought to stumble on. Its website does not show failed projects unless they’re specifically asked for and
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by cmckay 14y ago
Two points that indicate that the author doesn't really know what he's talking about: 1. "Estimating the number of failed projects is difficult because of these tactics, but most independent attempts to pinpoint the figure have landed at 50
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by cmckay 14y ago
These isotopes have limited (and sometimes quite short) lifetimes. Bringing them closer to the patients means that they can be produced in smaller quantities on an as needed basis, and reduces the necessary infrastructure to transport them.
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by cmckay 14y ago
I see that part of the posting didn't go through. Reposted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4281053
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Ask HN: How to get my Kickstarter in front of the right people?
5 points by cmckay 14y ago|3 comments
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How to get my Kickstarter in front of the right people?
3 points by cmckay 14y ago|2 comments
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by cmckay 14y ago
For product design projects, kickstarter requires that you have a working prototype and a manufacturing plan. Most of the other project areas don't have that requirement. I just launched a kickstarter ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects