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Ask HN: Good books / resources about the history of computing and comp sci?
6 points by adpirz 11y ago|3 comments
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by adpirz 11y ago
Having just moved form Nashville to the Bay Area, I can say that you actually get a lot of the wonderful cosmopolitan bits in the city without the overcrowded mayhem. Also, Nashville is an upcoming GFiber city. I've heard it described
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by adpirz 11y ago
Anyone know of strong examples of Django REST with Angular as the front end?
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This is especially true on the Caltrain baby bullets. Outlets and tables galore!
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by adpirz 11y ago
Couldn't this same rationale be applied to high-school level math? It's one of the biggest excuses made about learning anything beyond arithmetic -- unless I'm pursuing engineering or some computation-heavy career, when will
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by adpirz 11y ago
I'm building a K-12 comp sci curriculum for a network of schools and we're pulling a LOT from this. Why? I previously taught an intro CS course to 8th graders with the "jump straight to the code" method, and found that
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by adpirz 11y ago
Having taught 8th graders programming in Scratch and now building an introductory curriculum for high school freshmen with it, I can say that Scratch does an incredible job of honing in on the major algorithmic and data-based abstractions w
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by adpirz 12y ago
That's when you look at other factors like past performance, including (but certainly not limited to) performance on his / her pupils' standardized tests. Like any other hiring process, it's not always perfect, but you
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by adpirz 12y ago
Teacher here. Good schools will ask you to teach a sample lesson on a particular subject and prep your own materials. Principals and other teachers will observe and give feedback. It's what I did to work at my current school, and we
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by adpirz 12y ago
I don't know about SF proper, but there's a pretty sizable charter movement in the Bay Area. See: http://www.kippbayarea.org/ http://www.rsed.org/bayarea/ Those are two off the top of my hea
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by adpirz 12y ago
I work at one of those high-performing charter schools that serves primarily low-income students. It's interesting hearing the criticisms of the charter movement as a whole considering its actually made up of many different types of s
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by adpirz 12y ago
I thought that's what she was saying! Like a modern take on "star-crossed lovers". Weird.
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by adpirz 12y ago
Sarcasm is a form of irony.
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by adpirz 12y ago
Simple request: filter by student / helper.
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For those people looking for some GOOD radiolab episodes, I highly recommend Numbers and Language as entry points.
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Tell me how to stop ruining your city.(medium.com)
1 points by adpirz 13y ago|0 comments
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by adpirz 13y ago
I'm more of an observer to the field, so I'm curious, what does a "bad" resume look like? And what kinds of things do you find on those few good ones? My assumptions are that everyone is applying with decent CS background and at least a BS
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by adpirz 13y ago
Atul Gawande wrote about a similar initiative in Camden, NJ, two years ago: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_...
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by adpirz 14y ago
Wolfram or Searfoss. I'm guessing Wolfram. Based on a 2 minute Google.
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by adpirz 14y ago
For accuracy's sake, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't need to "break in" to MIT's network. It's entirely open, no? At least last I was there.
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by adpirz 14y ago
And the filter bubble continues... http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
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by adpirz 14y ago
Get help. Honestly, especially if you have health insurance, see a psychologist. I just started and it's a great first step. Edit: Not directed at this poster, just at anyone who might be feeling depressed. I didn't realize how depressed
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by adpirz 14y ago
Regarding the Jobs would-have-wouldn't-have done this, there's actually a decent chance that he DID this. http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-worked-closely-on-...
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by adpirz 14y ago
MobileMe
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foodforthought truereddit, economics and if you unsubscribe from pics, funny, adviceanimals, aww, and atheism (regardless of whether you are or not, it's just not high quality content), you'll find that things suddenly get a whoooole lot be
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by adpirz 14y ago
As a wannabe, I am just as confused. I'm pretty sure the free stuff gets far more press anyway.
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by adpirz 14y ago
This doesn't hit the root of the problem. If we rely on the current SV enterprise model, we're basically just hoping that the billionaires that come out of this social media binge will be socially aware enough to invest in hard problems th
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by adpirz 14y ago
All valid points, and there are testing suites that do exactly what you say that are widely used (this one is pretty standard: http://www.nwea.org/products-services/computer-based-adaptiv... ), but they aren't the assessment that's measure
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by adpirz 14y ago
I honestly think, as benign as it sounds, this is the most pertinent comment. First off, I don't think that a teacher's performance eval should be entirely rooted in state tests, nor do I believe that the current method of testing is by any
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by adpirz 14y ago
Some people develop passions because someone somewhere showed them the wonder and excitement in a field or subject that was otherwise closed off to them. That's the point. I'm betting that there are out there right now a million ninja cod

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