Comments on: the invisible blogger dissertates.

By: Ethan Fremen

Ethan Fremen — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Even if it were released under an open-source license, and you were willing to elide the actual collaboration part, it would probably still involve some resources like a server. But, if it makes it easier, I can be invisible .

By: vika

vika — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mrm, no, I am not willing to elide the collaboration part. But, as I understand it, I'll be helping you to develop something that's useful more widely than with just Roland. So releasing it open-source will need to happen at some point, and if it's open source and made available as a generalized tool, the legitimacy of my dissertation research should not come into question at all.

By: belochka

belochka — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“activities that require no external input (thinking, meditation, yoga) and produce no external output (no blogging or cooking or cleaning, for example).”

…hmm… “sleep” fits those categories :) :) :)

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Re year and a half away: The Cee-and-me little sister Heather is in her second quarter of grad school, and declares without hesitation that it’ll be The Hard One. Actually accomplishing the work is not as difficult as preparing for it.

Re dissertate: Now, my little pocket dictionary doesn’t make a claim one way or the other, but it seems that ‘dissertate’ (or its singular, ‘dissertates’) isn’t a valid reverse-engineering of ‘dissertation.’ Shouldn’t it be … ahem … just ‘disserts’? =)