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| StrangeLoop
http://www.loki.ws/essays/2014/09/20/strangenotes.html
My name is Josh Szmajda. I'm a long-time coder with experience in Ruby, Perl, Bash, PHP, and Java, as well as some exposure to Python, C, C , VB, Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, and a bunch more. I'm big into Linux and Open Source in general. I'm the CTO at Optoro. Where we help retailers with returned inventory. Asymp; What Podcasts I'm Listening To Right Now. Asymp; Free and Open Source. Asymp; Minecraft Mod with RubyBukkit. Asymp; Measuring Rails Boot Time. Asymp; On Entrepreneurship. Asymp; Shut Up, HAProxy!
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Most academic publishing isn't academic (and how to deal with it)
https://www.joelkuiper.eu/academic-publishing
Most academic publishing isn't academic (and how to deal with it). Amazed that my cell phone has the computing power of last decades’ super computer and that I can collaborate at the speed of light, I am convinced that we are now more empowered by knowledge than ever before. Yet it would be foolish to say that all is well in the world of academia. You only need to skim the recent publications of The Economist. Or the LA Times. Perhaps we are caught in a moral maze. How to deal with the past. The opinions...
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