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Yes.

A diploma from a prestigious university only means you can go through better gilded doors. After that, your measure is how much money you helped your employer make.

After a while, the metric becomes what you've done (in the past) to prove your worth.

If MOOCs are taken seriously, and can compete with prestigious diplomas when it comes to that first job, then you've got a game changer.

Sadly, the only way to make a business (again, pains me to say that) pay attention is if they lose money.

n0rmon Why I’m No Longer a Professor

Disengaging from yesteryear's institutions is not going to help them.

Best way is to force them to adapt. MOOCs seem to be the thing that will make education assess its business practices.

I wish I didn't have to refer to education as a business, but alas, the idea that you can fine-tune any organization through business cases has been perpetuated.

n0rmon Bash [ -z hello ]

It just has more nodes pointing to its links.

That's the danger behind PageRank. If something false is popular enough, it will replace fact.

n0rmon NodeBB: Node.js-based forum software

Bad design.

Throws the information at the user and expects attention.

n0rmon SpaceX launch webcast

Launch team is probably not happy their stress is prolonged for another 24 hours.

Then again, their boss is Musk. Lucky bastards.

n0rmon Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition

"Road to Serfdom" indeed.

n0rmon Secrets of dispatch_once; x86 performance trickery

Can someone link a mirror?

I get timeout for some reason.

n0rmon An Important Tech Job That Doesn't Exist

What is the one book you'd recommend on young humans' learning?<br>

The sort that gives data and backs its claims up by evidence (empirical, controlled etc.) if possible.

n0rmon Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

Every time I read how most professionals out there simply make a living by bluffing and cheating, I die a little inside.

n0rmon I'd rather publish these here than with Nature

A question about hype since I know almost nothing about biology;

Is this possible? - http://microfabricator.com/articles/view/id/538989659aad9d53...

n0rmon Want to spot the next bubble? Look at where Harvard grads work.

Consulting is basically getting someone to figure out how to do something for you.

CEOs like consulting (primarily big name) because if it fails, they can say they got the best.

n0rmon The Ph.D. Grind, Year One (2012)

The author needs to come to terms with one fact; not even your professors are going to read these walls of text.

Most people you want to convey your opinions to will check the amount of text before deciding on whether to invest the time or not.

Fact of life. Work around it.

n0rmon [dead]

Assimilation.

Only way to cure trolls.

n0rmon Why Redditors Are Revolting

These people have apparently never seen /r/spacedicks.

Wow. This made Time?

Conde Nast must have expanded its influence.

n0rmon Tesla reports net loss of $50 million in Q1 [video]

Tesla also said that using non-GAAP information that excludes some items... it earned $17 million,

Which means the article is like a proof-piece on how unreliable these financial analyses are.

They got 12 cents when analysts expected 6. That is a %50 error.

n0rmon After Technology Destroys Capitalism

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD!

n0rmon After Technology Destroys Capitalism

Basically it boils down to (I believe);

everyone wants everything

and also;

nothing is more commonplace as the wish to be remarkable

n0rmon After Technology Destroys Capitalism

It's a society that shares everything. Logical mode of thinking suggests that leadership should also be shared.

A recent example of this is; San Francisco (I think) municipality opening up it databases to the citizens so that people can figure out a way to get involved in how their living space is governed.

n0rmon Little-Known CSS Facts

and hopefully a css native <blink> tag !

n0rmon The spectre haunting San Francisco

Economist has a penchant for writing a wall of text and not telling you anything new.

Personally, I stopped reading when they referenced techcrunch.

n0rmon Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow

Congratulations NYT!

You've published the 1000th hype article on graphene.

I wonder which lobby is desperately trying to get their graphene products approved.

n0rmon Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site

Rumor has it that a sex tape of this wanker will be spread on the 26th.

Coming to a screen near you.