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Save the Pirate Bay of Science

It’s important. Really.

PhD-level education: a hamster wheel, mounted facing the wrong way

Nothing to change in Academia. Please move along.

What killed decent jobs is NOT sophistication

“How did we decide that professors don’t deserve job security or a decent salary?”, he asked. Me: not by increasing sophistication, for sure.

Final Report from fOSSa 2010 in Grenoble

The fOSSa 2010 conference in Grenoble did a good job to prove (since it’s still sorely needed, see conclusions below) that Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) isn’t some unreliable toy for amateurs.