Drakeman

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by Drakeman 15y ago
Some US states have 60/40 plans built into their education budgets. What that means is 60% of the money the state gives to local schools must go to the "classroom." Now, how a state defines classroom is very loose. Most of the time, supplie
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by Drakeman 15y ago
I've acquired a growing distrust of Amazon's seller accounts in the past year. For a while, I was making my rent on used books I'd acquired over the years. However, I found Amazon was more likely to side on the buyer side, even when there w
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by Drakeman 15y ago
Education and its trying-to-be-legitimate partner Educational Psychology is even worse. It is essentially a smal set of theories based on very small sample quantitative and sketchy qualitative research. There's an added bonus of philosophic
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by Drakeman 15y ago
Yeah, I think the problem with the 4S is that it's a fairly minor update. Look at the difference between the "smartphones" before the original iPhone and after, the iPhone and the iPhone 3G(S), and then the iPhone 4. Each was a significant
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by Drakeman 15y ago
Honestly, I don't know anyone who really seeks out BBB accreditation as a means of judging a business's credibility (I'm talking at the consumer level). In fact, the only times I've ever caught myself viewing any of their web content was fo
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by Drakeman 15y ago
My field is more Education than CS or engineering, but I don't think publishers add value as much as, simply create a convenient baseline for readers to judge the quality of the work. Classrooms, all through grade school to College voraciou
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by Drakeman 15y ago
Looks to be a very interesting idea. In fact, I do want one. Buuuuut, I'd have to wonder with those prices for the full models and DIY kits if he is not overcharging by several hundred dollars. True, you're buying a piece of tech for its lo
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by Drakeman 15y ago
I think some of what you're saying is a bit too broad, but more or less on the same point as I am. Technology drives human progress, some could argue it -is- human progress and the idea that there is anything to fear from computers or "nan
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by Drakeman 15y ago
It's been a while, but a long time ago I heard the phrase, "The Rolling Stones are not in the music business, they're in the t-shirt selling business." In that way, I think if you examine Google's practices and its strategy with Android, it
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by Drakeman 15y ago
I can relate to number one, but what's your evidence for number two?
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Ask HN: What's the worst tech article?
2 points by Drakeman 15y ago|1 comments
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by Drakeman 15y ago
They aren't proof, but they might be enough (I am not a lawyer) for a search warrant for email addresses, person's homes, and phone/ISP records of the people named in the "d0x."
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by Drakeman 15y ago
They mention bit.ly as a success and helping popularize alternative domains for startups. But isn't this a bad example? There have been domains seized by the Libyan government ( http://www.circleid.com/posts/libyan_government_has_seized_v..
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by Drakeman 15y ago
As a former English-major nutjob, I do see some problems with how those sentences are constructed. The "internal activities and externally" is very awkward phrasing.
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LulzSec Member Arrested... Maybe.(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Drakeman 15y ago|0 comments