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I think you're missing two fatal problems in this "publish all raw data and code" mindset. I don't think the desire of commercialization is high on the list of fatal problems preve…

It seems like it's just that the goals are different. Computer science researchers could also make the opposite case, "The underwhelming impact of software development on producing…

I think your comment is pretty spot on. Just three things I'd add to, are that 1) the advisor is not intentionally downgrading your letter to "just good", but it's that they're obl…

Students are users of a class, as much as a dentist is a user of a dental software application. Neither were involved in the making of the class or software. Both were delivered th…

I'd like to see in a forum for dentists a thread where they offer clever suggestions for how to change software development. Clearly, all these dentists have used plenty of softwar…

Simply, because using absolute points would lead to debate over every single decimal of a point. A student with 89.95% would be determined to fight to get 90.05% and then continue …

This doesn't work when I've tried it. How many students or times have you implemented this policy? First, it doesn't make sense when the regrade is most objective (like points were…

> Please don't use such circular logic. We're debating whether the research properly qualifies as human subject research; we're not debating about what the IRB actually decided on …

Not at all, 1) this is clearly not an exempt study, which is a category of its own that the IRB reviews and makes a judgment on. The authors would immediately have been able to poi…

He seems to have good intentions, but does not seem to have knowledge of IRB which may make this situation worse. Specifically, he confuses "does not constitute human subjects rese…

This is actually the most technically correct answer on this page. Everyone is going by their own opinions about definitions of what constitutes human subjects research, rather tha…

Sure, as someone who has also been on both sides, that's not what I was describing at all though. None of the examples I gave are handled by an editor, except maybe "managing issue…

So I think your assumption that academic publishing is "a website hosting up PDFs" is the source of confusion for "what justifies this much money." Just like AirBnB isn't just a we…

This comes up every time there's an article about academic publishing. Yes peer reviewers do the reviewing, but it's the long-term infrastructure and coordination that the journal …

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Agree with all your points. The author has been in academia all his life so after 20 years or so, I can see how he can feel frustrated by it. I think the general summary of what yo…

Do these status dashboards have any more credibility left? Always showing green when services are down.

I think I see the confusion between us. You don't see the difference between selling data to a company, and selling ad space where the advertiser can choose for what demographics i…

They actually don't, unless you define selling as they allow advertisers to select what demographics/attributes their ads target. But the actual data stays on the Facebook servers.…

Yet everyone is freaking out and moralizing about nonfinancial data voluntarily given to Facebook. If only the credit bureaus kept our financial and identity data as Facebook kept …

You can't think of any reason? What about retaliation for being the less enthusiastic reviewer? What about the opposite, that you become known for being an easy reviewer who missed…

Please do. Would love to hear success stories for data security.

Sure I guess I didn't make that very clear. Just going down the line: 1) stop releasing before the bugs are fixed. Software and games are rushed out. Companies need to take their t…

It'd be a process: participant in a community in a subfield, listen to ideas that have been tried and outcomes, come up with an idea using those lessons learned and success metrics…