Tangaroa

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by Tangaroa 15y ago
Tangential to the subject, I recently attended a presentation on educational video games by Keith Devlin of Stanford's H-STAR program. The main point that I came away with was that too many "educational" games break the immersive experience
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by Tangaroa 15y ago
Ironically true to a point. In the time between Google and Google Books, a citation pulled from a book or an old newspaper always lost the argument to a citation from Bob's Biased Blog. If information was not on the Internet, it was automat
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by Tangaroa 15y ago
The hacker was dumb to have identified himself as a company employee who was fired under bad circumstances. HR could probably give the police a short list of suspects by Tuesday.
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by Tangaroa 15y ago
I had a professor who told the class to cheat. He justified it by saying that anyone in the real world today can go online and get help for any problem they have. Another unspoken reason is that he would not cover the material he would test
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by Tangaroa 15y ago
My problem with showing the point score is that it can lead to a share of the score being due to popularity rather than quality. Some people will uprate comments that they might otherwise consider too marginal to uprate, if they see that ev
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by Tangaroa 16y ago
You need to buy insurance for your IT job? Please describe. I've never heard of this before. Are there different standards for employee fault in different states? Are there any notable court cases? I did once work at a place where employees
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by Tangaroa 16y ago
Efforts to implement the stapler model include "Cut and Paste" and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). Microsoft thought you ought to be able to staple anything to anything, like a terminal in the middle of your word document or a clock on
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by Tangaroa 16y ago
A word of warning: between forged IPs, compromised systems, and formerly hostile IP space given to new owners, an IP blacklist will eventually hit legitimate customers. I speak from experience on this since I had the same bright idea.
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by Tangaroa 16y ago
A guy named Ed Lake has been keeping track of related news articles and analysing them since shortly after the attacks. People reading this thread might be interested in his site: http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/
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by Tangaroa 16y ago
Similar question, north SF Bay Area (Sonoma, Marin). I got a BS in CS last year and all of the entry-level jobs require 3+ years experience. Even the fast-food jobs require prior experience, no joke. I am currently back in school to refresh