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masterofmasterson How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang

It's not a ton, but he could also get a summer salary if he has grants for it (netting 33% more salary) and do some consulting on the side.

Also on the whole we should take into account that professors didn't have to pay for grad school unlike medicine / business and instead got paid for it.

masterofmasterson Facebook's Brilliant, Boring Master Plan

For some reason, when I messaged someone on Facebook Messenger, it always felt to me more like I was bothering them, than when I used AIM/ICQ in the past. So I felt it was never really used in the same way. So I think this app is an attempt to make it a bit more casual, less formal.

masterofmasterson They want to hire me. What should I do?

The above post makes sense with this context, but I wouldn't say it was needlessly downvoted. A post doesn't stand on its own when it throws around uncommon metaphors without explanation.

Personally, I'd prefer of posts/articles all explained their metaphors and acronyms before using them. This is Hacker News, not Enterprise IT News. For example, the article tosses out USP and CI which I don't believe are very common terms either. They should be spelled out.

masterofmasterson Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

Wow, this is a pretty strong attack, for something that is likely just a miswording. Cruise passengers pay an automatic gratuity at the end of a trip. Much of this goes to your room attendant. So it's "free" in the sense that it's essentially included in the total price.

masterofmasterson Facebook is starting to track your mouse cursor. Here is what you should know.

Sensationalist. A blog citing another blog citing a Wall Street Journal article citing a quote from a Facebook employee who probably was just giving examples of data that could be tracked. Decide for yourself.

"The social network may start collecting data on minute user interactions with its content, such as how long a user’s cursor hovers over a certain part of its website, or whether a user’s newsfeed is visible at a given moment on the screen of his or her mobile phone, Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin said Tuesday during an interview."

masterofmasterson iPad from T-Mobile with free monthly 200MB data for life

Only about 10 minutes of streaming HD video.

Or about 50,000 emails, or 1,000 websites (gzip compressed), or 50 Google searches every single day, or a hi-res photo of your loved ones every morning you wake up, or the confidence of never getting lost again.

I know you're being sarcastic, but for several years I was on a t-mobile plan with 200MB per month limit on my Nexus S, and I used without worry and only went over the limit once.

masterofmasterson Ask HN: Where do you find interesting papers to read?

For the lazy person who wants to cut down on the "crawling", try this listing of Best Paper Awards across pretty much every CS discipline: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html