#general
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enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:21 PMcorrect - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:21 PMSo meta. Gotcha. - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:21 PMyours would be different - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:21 PMIt is confusing that pants uses pants to build pants - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:22 PM@rough-dog-96241: are you expermenting? and if so, for yourself or for some capitalist overlord? - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:23 PMhaha! I work for https://www.civitaslearning.com/ and we use sbt in a mostly-scala monorepo. I’m experimenting with what a pants build would look like instead. - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:23 PMAha - good to know - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:24 PMI hope part of your mission is to crush current for-profit academic journal publishers - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:25 PMSounds like a different goal though - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:25 PMstudents and learning, not profs - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:25 PMneat - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:26 PMYeah — the core offering is an analytics suite that faculty, staff, and administration use to better help students. Models that predict drop out, analyses of program effectiveness, degree pathway analysis, etc. - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:27 PMThis is very interesting to me, My wife is an english professor who often asks for data in meetings and gets dirty looks - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:27 PMhaha! Yeah, not an unusual story. - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:28 PMOne of our struggles is that we’re building rocket ships (e.g., risk modeling) when a lot of people just want bicycles (e.g., enterprise data warehouse that works). - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:28 PMYes - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:28 PMYour market is ... very narrow right now. - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:29 PMEducating humanities depts about this though would be awesome - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:30 PMThe thing is, the end result is it will suggest cutting variety for specialization - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:30 PMAnd taht's what makes it a hard sell to too-diversified depts in too-small schools that can't actually afford this - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:31 PMPresidents and provosts should love it though - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:31 PMYeah, I’ve pondered some of that myself. At the end of the day, though, most of what we’re doing is targeted at access institutions that have major drop out problems. They actually need to get kids on fewer pathways and figure out how to keep them there. We do have a few partners that are tier-1s, but their use of our stuff is atypical. - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:31 PMheh, yeah — we’ve definitely benefited from the fetishization of technology among the provost class. - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:31 PMYeah, they can afford to be in-efficient - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:32 PMWell, again - neat! - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:32 PM👍 - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:32 PMIt’s a fun gig. Except for when sbt fucks my day. Which is why I’m here. - e
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05/06/2016, 11:33 PM<<<<!!!;;; "yeah" - r
rough-dog-96241
05/06/2016, 11:33 PMheheh. If only that were the worst problem. - e
enough-analyst-54434
05/06/2016, 11:35 PMGoo new @limited-country-20626 - the buildgen incompat is not an incompat