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Your point is well-taken and (thankfully) there are safeguards in place at top journals. However, Rob Tibshirani examined this a while back with a case study and came up with some …

"In academia, the end product is a publication and your code needs to work only once. " In my experience as ex-academic, the above is all too true in too many computational fields …

We've found that Bump often requires several re-bumps, whereas QR codes can be reliably scanned within a few seconds. Also, we enable referrals of contacts (and real-time notificat…

We recently developed a way to get rid of paper business cards and their shortcomings (e.g.: clutter). It's called Napkkin (www.napkkin.com), and it lets you create a business card…

My 2c as someone who has a similar background to yours (did PhD, post-doc, now an entrepreneur): a startup is in most ways more fulfilling than an academic environment. I think sta…

What I get from pg's comment is how the research experience has become less fun across the board in the last few decades (I'm focusing on post-graduate research, but a case could b…

Minor point that has always bugged me: why doesn't Cocoa have native implementations of tree data structures?

We recently developed a way to get rid of paper business cards and their shortcomings (e.g.: clutter). It's called Napkkin, and it lets you create a business card on your phone and…

Feynman's view on CS is similar by Hal Abelson's take on the term (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA ). Abelson's point about CS being more like magic has always stuck…

Though the gov't might want research to be distributed, the underlying problem here has more to do with the scientists themselves than anything else. We've had ArXiV around for a l…