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...actually when you think about it - if the market forces argument was all there was to it administrators would be getting paid very little to, there's an abundance of administrat…

The solution is get on the administration track https://www.higheredjobs.com/salary/salaryDisplay.cfm?Survey... e.g. Chief Student Financial Aid Officer $83,726

twit.tv I listen to it's a nice radio level stream of tech

I think in all these discussions of bean counters, the underlying assumptions non bean counters make is that the bean counters are trying to improve things. That, in my experience,…

That could be possible - though we'd like to believe other wise the human eye isn't well calibrated. After all maps of the canals of mars came about from eye balling - and they nev…

hipsters

That can't be right, sounds more like a grab for consultant dollars :-). I've been 25 years a developer, and never been on a failure. Had one small one cancelled - but for business…

#insert standard weekly hackernews attack academia article response here

yes, unfortunately that is one interpretation of events, even so I feel more comfortable knowing that people like Martin Bryant can't get guns. I guess we'll just have to wait for …

> but it seems to do the trick in keeping firearms out of the hands of crazies thus far. Yes you wouldn't think this change would be enough - because if you want to get a gun you c…

Australian here, we had a mass shooting in Australia some years ago. As a result of this Assault rifles were banned (Edit: without a demonstrable need), licenses were required for …

yes I see your point. Mine was degrees have been dumbed down and in many was are glorified vocational courses now, the courses have more people, a greater student to teacher ratio,…

I'm not sure how this relates to MBA's? Please expand if you would

It's not grammatical nitpicking it's teleological nitpicking. You've made some incredibly broad statements without a shred of evidence, this I grant you is the norm for an internet…

You do make my point well. What used to be taught in an arts degree is how to structure an argument, e.g. 'psychology studies cannot be replicated' should really be 'some psycholog…

>I do respect the humanities, but there's only so much you can do with them. I believe someone from the humanities would have trouble with this statement. Of what use is all the te…

perhaps it's less of an issue in delphi (and pascal) since parameters that change in procedures have the var keyword? In practice it doesn't seem to cause issues since pretty well …

Interesting - I've always thought Delphi was easier to use than many other systems, but could never put my finger on why. It seems they thought about it a lot at the beginning in a…

Due to L-Theanine they say http://www.worldoftea.org/caffeine-and-l-theanine/ it relaxes you and mellows out the caffeine

Have you tried a tea strainer - something like this http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-3-Inch-Strainer/dp/B001... the old school way Edit: http://www.amazon.com/Online-Stores-Inc…

If you want to try tea I wouldn't try earl grey first, it has a funny taste to me - and I drink a lot of tea. Try english breakfast (twinings if you can get it), or even better ora…

...Delphi's not dead - see http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi , now it's cross platform, modern language features - generics, lambdas etc etc. Writing a Mac app in it right…

His dog has dreads - very cool