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ccorcoran··on You probably don't need a knowledge garden
Love this take on “knowledge gardens”. I’ve spent way too much time trying to organize and re-organize notes. Embracing the mess with a capture and triage loop is so much more natural.
ccorcoran··on Feerless: Crowd-sourced, preemptive notifications for Netflix watchers with PTSD
This is a really creative approach to a problem that far too many people need to deal with. I think this project is going to end up helping a lot of people.
ccorcoran··on Show HN: ClassPager lets teachers send reminders and run live Q&A over SMS.
Really awesome application! I passed it along to a couple of my teacher/professor friends.

Hopefully this can replace a lot of those awful RF-based polling systems that come packaged a lot of college level textbooks. Physics II in college was really painful because of our 'clickers'.

ccorcoran··on Tell HN: Startup School 2011 emails are out
I got in, my first time. Can't wait!
ccorcoran··on Running a Modern Startup on PHP
I believe it is, I haven't met anyone who's used in a long time though. I think CodeIgniter is the current hot framework for PHP.
ccorcoran··on UWisconsin Chancellor’s message on academic freedom and open records
Whatever your take is on this situation I think most will agree the creation of knowledge is key for any society's advancement. It's critically important for the future of the US that we don't let the prevailing political winds interfere with the creativity that will keep us competitive. Burdening the pursuit of knowledge with politically driven oversight will create research as useful as most legislation. Politicians need to say out of academics. Most of them spent a majority of their lives avoiding them anyways, it shouldn't be to hard to keep avoiding them.