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happyhappy007on Phdtree: create and discover your academic family history

Just did a search on PG, here is PG's profile: http://phdtree.org/scholar/graham-paul-2/

Didn't know he had a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard in the early 90s.

happyhappy007on Show HN: Phdtree – create and search your academic genealogy

Nice side project, but it seems there are a lot of duplicate profiles, just to name a few:

a search of "Albert Einstein" returned 3

Niels Bohr: 4

Stephen Hawking: 3

Richard Feynman: 2

Lennard Jones: 2

linus pauling: 2

happyhappy007on Show HN: Phdtree – create and search your academic genealogy

I was just thinking the same, but then on a second thought, wouldn't that create a huge web of people inter-connected together that couldn't fit into one page? Maybe could use Ajax to dynamically expand the family tree as users scroll up or down

happyhappy007on Seeking new test ideas for Framework Benchmarks Round 4+

I would like to see a simple CRUD blog built with different frameworks. Building a blog is like the "Hello world!" for dynamic web development.

happyhappy007on Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley

Thanks for digging it out. Upvoted!

happyhappy007on Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley

Quoting one of the comments from Techcrunch which I think should be upvoted:

"disgraceful that they spent their whole life as a company arguing that they were the next big thing in open publishing only to sell out to the most unethical monolith in closed publishing out there. no doubt el$evier will enjoy slowly ripping apart what's left of mendeley and continuing with its centuries-old business model of making money off the back of researchers' freely provided knowledge.

nice to see your true colours team mendeley!"