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by 21echoes 12y ago
Plenty of companies have quarter to year-long contract-to-hire paths for all new hires. Are all of these companies also failures? This is how all skilled work was for centuries, if not millennia. Were all businesses and guilds back then fai
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by 21echoes 12y ago
In my time working with designers, almost all of them refer constantly to these rules (esp. Fitt's, Hick's, and Miller's which basically reduce to "big buttons", "few choices", and "no memory required
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by 21echoes 12y ago
that's like saying that a company that only hires 10% of those it interviews is a failure. they have a waiting list of applicants, which allows them to set their quality bar high enough to reject the bottom 65% of applicants. the only
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by 21echoes 12y ago
And the recent "Internet Freedom Act" http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/republicans-internet... with this choice quote from its author: "Once the federal government establishes a foothold
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by 21echoes 12y ago
their API for digital goods is now called Android Pay, and goes live within months ( http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/02/android-pay-is-real-and-wil... & http://www.androidcentral.com/google-
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by 21echoes 12y ago
why did they give it a non-standard keyboard layout? having the black keys be higher up & "overlap" front-to-back with the white keys is pretty crucial for playing with any sort of speed. also wary of the button-like keys vs t
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by 21echoes 12y ago
isn't that effectively how it worked? "a combination of live paper trading results during [the month after submission], as well as two years of backtesting against historical market data"
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Android does -- declare a TextField's type as Email and it will auto-complete your email for you
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> At Montessori, you're supposed to like what you do. At Summerhill (and Sudbury schools), you do what you like. False. Montessori is: there are a number of age-appropriate exercises scattered around the classroom. Every day you com
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by 21echoes 12y ago
investments, along with the rate of return to wealth in investment markets being greater than the economic growth rate ( http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/ec... )
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by 21echoes 12y ago
no, there just is no such thing as "Marxism" as a nation-state level policy. Marx was a critic of capitalism, and did not propose any vision of how society should be constructed beyond "workers should own the means of produ
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> it boils down to an inherit weakness in the business model of pushing downloads for cash flow. Many of the most successful apps have completely decoupled their revenue from downloads, or the 70/30 split. The "Big Players&quot
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by 21echoes 12y ago
it's hard to read the joke as having any purpose other than the same one as the famous-ish political cartoon about coverage of ebola victims: http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/Faye%20on%20media%20respon... Is bein
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by 21echoes 12y ago
if the joke had come out of Louis CK's mouth, its intention would have been obvious. given that, as she said in the article, "only an insane person would think that white people can't get AIDS", and the phrasing is obvio
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by 21echoes 12y ago
This is such a short-sighted and close-minded view of philosophy, it boggles the mind.. > Philosophers can not seem to comprehend how a mass of meat can create consciousness and take leaps to try to rule out the mass of meat, regardless
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by 21echoes 12y ago
The article stands in direct contradiction to your supposed summary of it. To wit: > Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible . And that is because of a deep property of the laws of physics, namely the universality of c
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by 21echoes 12y ago
did you read the article? the article addresses this in the second paragraph. it then goes on to compare levels of crunch with metacritic scores and ROI data, and finds that crunch statistically significantly hurts projects.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Transgender does not mean having a sex change operation. Statistics say that somewhere between 66 and 90 percent of transgender people do not get sex change operations[1][2], and 40% have any no medical treatments at all (hormonal, surg
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by 21echoes 12y ago
the problem, of course, being that this is what an MRI machine looks like: http://neurophilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/img_0968....
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by 21echoes 12y ago
I found this to be a great practical introduction to monads: http://codon.com/refactoring-ruby-with-monads . It holds your hand the whole way, so it gets a bit long and tedious, but it's great at showing how three diffe
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> Kids learn to perform the operations, but do not seem to be mastering the concepts This is explicitly what Common Core is designed to fix -- Common Core is designed to break K-12 math's traditional focus on rote arithmetic and in
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> Australis is bundled with Firefox, too, and it's almost universally hated [citation needed]. remember that people bitching on web forums does not equal the general population's impression. firefox has extensive telemetry in t
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by 21echoes 12y ago
It's amazing to me that you would accuse DFW of myopia and hypocrisy when your argument here is, well, hypocritically myopic (not to mention one might say that DFW's overarching thesis in all of his work was encouraging his reader
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by 21echoes 12y ago
You know what else makes a comment dive rapidly in votes? A bad comment on a popular thread that's spiking in traffic. It's amazing to me that you're so single-minded about how no one other than a snapchat employee could poss
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by 21echoes 12y ago
>> So let's see, you opened with conspiracy theory nutjob > Given that Snapchat Beliebers (employees?) have come out of the woodwork to downvote me into oblivion, it's not that far fetched. You're not helping dodge t
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by 21echoes 12y ago
given that the top two comments in this comment section are attacking what they were defending, i'd say that stance is appropriate.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
yes, Khan Academy has lessons on a huge number of topics. no, nothing in the posted article has anything to do with "implying that [Khan Academy] will make you proficient at coding"
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by 21echoes 12y ago
in case you missed why your comment didn't add to the conversation: Khan Academy and the article are both not about coding or learning to code. This article is about math.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
This response shows a willful ignorance of the stated goals of Common Core, especially with relation to the Common Core math curriculum. Common Core's primary pedagogical shift in math is to remove the historical focus on math as a set
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by 21echoes 12y ago
i don't think being a private alpha is representative at all of the long-term direction of the project.

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