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So he actually made it to Guatemala?

Always thought his posts were kinda made up rants, but at least this shows that he was not lying in his last posting about having left Belize.

Also: Is there some new Anti-McAfee gossip filter in place? There are news on the front page with 4 points in 33 minutes, and this one has 4 points in 12 minutes and is on position 76.

Not really sure in how far this is a new insight. Based on Drucker's old mantra Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation it is pretty obvious that in production based industries manufacturing and innovation are stronger related.

But it is great to see that influential business academics like him increasingly promote the fact that business success is not (only) about juggling numbers. Or to quote from my favorite paper by Christensen:

And all data are subjective. Each form of data is a higher-level abstraction from a much more complex reality

(2004 Carlile & Christensen - The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research)

Thank you so much for the effort. This is really something useful. Would love to see more projects on making privacy themes more accessible.

Depends very much on the market situation. Is there any possibility that your competitor can jump to a substitute product?

Unless you are the OPEC or under some obscure government protection law, classic monopoles are quite rare these days and with enough bad-will it should be possible to get them undermined by substitutes.

I published one of my thesis as a book. Always tried to get into writing a mainstream book, but working against a self set deadline with all the "other" distractions in life is tough.

What I can recommend you is taking a look at "Steve Manning How To Write A Book On Anything In 14 Days or less". Even so the title sounds very scammy and marketing'ish it provides really a solid advice for non-fiction books and gives a very structured approach. You can find of cause copies of it in various online "repositories".

Does anybody know when the story hit Reddit for the first time? Not quite sure if this wasn't on HN first.

Even if you host it yourself but at a regular hosting provider "they" might just confiscate your servers. Increasing email encryption usability might be the road out of this dilemma. Otherwise email encryption is going to stay within a very small circle of users.

Makes an interesting read.

Does anybody know what kind of repository Cornell is there running? The paper seems a bit odd structured and I don't really see that as an open-access publication(lack of DOIs). Or is this just a working paper repository?

Care to tell us a bit more about the project? For example what makes it different from other music services etc?

It is probably depending on what importance one attributes to the role of data and humans in this context. What I would be most interested in his how he understands objectivity or what he is going to present as his way of presenting data - especially because I am coming from this "all data is subjective" standpoint. But this is of cause just a personal standpoint.

I don't think that the length-is-quality argument should be here an issue - as he has demonstrated in the Powerpoint discussion that it is very well (within his philosophy) possible to make an argument within a 3X page booklet. Instead what I was asking for was a similar accessible or solution oriented approach as he did with the Powerpoint subject.

I love Tufte but most likely won't end up going through 179 pages just on how to present data the "right" way. He should develop some form of a Web curriculum or something more accessible for those only interested in the essentials. He did this already quite brilliantly with his Powerpoint essentials.

This is the device most likely going to be used: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20055431-1.html

42 Votes and I have no idea what this is all about. Can somebody please give us a summary for the "uneducated" ;)

It is a really interesting phenomenon but attracting such a diverse crowd that they are most likely end up protesting against each other. Sad to see. Reddit had a great discussion about the situation and how different interest groups are all trying to hijack the movement.

One perspective might be that MIS/CIS degree holders move faster into management roles. Might be based on the misconception that the MIS/CIS degree sounds more like coming from a systemic or wholistic perspective while the CS/SE could be more associated with a specialist position. Just guessing...

It is going to be interesting to watch how the whole TLD "opening" is going to develop. So far the addition of new TLDs made more or less just the value of .coms stronger. Hard to predict how this is going to change when every ad on TV is going to have a different TLD.

I would suggest two things: First check out the curricula for the following semesters and see in how far these interest you. And second if you are already quite proficient in programming, there might be some research projects you might can get involved in, therefore making it a more interesting experience.

In my view the challenge of college is to find a few things that interest you and become really good at them, but at the same time "survive" the subjects that are less interesting to you personally.

Do you have any recommendations for accessible R tutorials? I would love to get into this a little bit more. R seems quite effective for these kinds of things.

This is some great research paper overview. Perfect for someone doing a literature review on that subject. With there were similar listings for other research areas.