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Comment on Resources for using Jazz in a Student Course by Using GitHub for 3rd Year Software Engineering « Semantic Werks

Using GitHub for 3rd Year Software Engineering « Semantic Werks — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:31:49 +0000

[...] At UBC, we have for some time used IBM’s Rational Team Concert tool, which is free for academic use, as our software collaboration environment. This was the default tool for this term, as well, save for the three groups who applied to use GitHub. The University of Victoria has been using RTC for a similar purpose. [...]

Comment on Book: God is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything by Adrian Schroeter

Adrian Schroeter — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:58:44 +0000

nice, he even has a youtube channel dedicated to him http://www.youtube.com/user/hitchenschannel?ob=4&feature=results_main

Comment on Book: God is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything by Arber Borici

Arber Borici — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:17:43 +0000

In fact, he was very active in public debates — there’s a plethora of YouTube videos (similarly at length) about his debates over the last four or five years.

Comment on Book: God is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything by Adrian Schroeter

Adrian Schroeter — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:44:46 +0000

IT is true that we lost a great thinker, but sometimes I am wondering if going through books was the right way to go given that our current society is less and less engaged in “long” written texts and often forgets what was read if it isn’t repeated enough.

Comment on Book: God is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything by Arber Borici

Arber Borici — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:05:33 +0000

And, of course, this is the manuscript where Hitchens first instated the concept of ‘antitheism’. In a nutshell, while atheists are such because they find no evidence in favor of the existence of a deity, they don’t exclude the possibility of having the wish that such a deity and its promises of eternal life exists. An antitheist, on the other hand, would be against such a deity even if it existed based on the premise that such a deity would have dictatorial control not only over our lives, but also over our thoughts… (This is probably a re-articulation of Orwell’s 1984 Thought Police…)

Alas, the world has lost the only intellectual who could push the envelope in high-level debates using unprecedented rhetoric in such matters.

Comment on Book: God is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything by Adrian Schroeter

Adrian Schroeter — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:23:42 +0000

thanks

Comment on Book: God is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything by Aloha Mister Hand

Aloha Mister Hand — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:49:28 +0000

Looks interesting!
Appreciate the review!

Comment on Why you should let your Grad Students review for you by Adrian Schroeter

Adrian Schroeter — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:44:19 +0000

Personally, I think with respect to ensure the quality of research that is being admitted to conferences and journals is fundamentally flawed. As you said there is tremendous time pressure on the side of the reviewers.

But nevertheless, graduate students are inevitably the future reviewers and how better to learn by doing and getting feedback from your supervisor? Otherwise, they or shall I say will get thrown in to the pool of reviewers without any real experience or previous guidance.

Comment on Why you should let your Grad Students review for you by Arber Borici

Arber Borici — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:18:14 +0000

If you are acknowledged as a co-reviewer, and given the way the academic process of publishing (or its business) is set up, do you think it would attenuate the rigorousness of such process? That is, if you protrude as a reviewer, what qualified you as such? Was it a set of criteria, or was it a lack of time on your supervisor’s side?

Comment on Get a glimpse at the Future of Collaborative Software Engineering with the SEGaL Group by Prophesying on the edge: The future of collaborative software development « Rough PhD Musings

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:20:05 +0000

[...] a whole larger than the sum of its parts; thus, it should be embraced without any local hesitation. Here’s Adrian’s post on this and another FoCSD paper where I appear as a [...]