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   Last Chance for Hackers on Planet Earth / EFF benefit tickets

   1 points by aestetix 15y ago|0 comments
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   by aestetix 15y ago

   Naturally I gotta plug the CCC's Project Blinkenlights: http://blinkenlights.net/
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   by aestetix 15y ago

   My response to the "bad guys" argument has always been: if you asked the bad guys if they were bad, what would they say?
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   by aestetix 15y ago

   Why do you trust a standard the federal government has set over what a teacher says? After all, the teachers are the ones who have hands on experience with how the students are actually doing. Further, standardized tests don't really measur
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   by aestetix 15y ago

   I think it's really funny that all the comments telling people they won't get noticed are actually boosting it to the top where they are very likely to get noticed. Humanity ftw!
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   by aestetix 15y ago

   Thanks for the response! This was a more generalized question for the community to think about. I actually am an engineer, and was seeing if there might be a positive way to help startups ease the pains you mentioned. It also seems that t
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   "Who's Hiring" for non-engineers?

   7 points by aestetix 15y ago|6 comments
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   by aestetix 15y ago

   I disagree with this assessment. People on Facebook tend to use the name by which they'll be most recognized. If your legal name is William Jones but most people know you as Bill Jones, you'll probably be on Facebook as Bill Jones. I don't
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   by aestetix 15y ago

   There's a lot more to it than that. Part of it is that Facebook does have a "real names" policy, but they don't actually define what a "real name" is, and they also don't enforce it nearly as recklessly as Google does. Also, it's importan
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    by aestetix 15y ago

    Sadly, there's not much hope. I hear it hasn't improved since my case: https://plus.google.com/115896012705745653160/posts/Kdg2nPzM...
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    by aestetix 15y ago

    Actually, I'd suggest the tests only reveal when the teacher stops teaching to the test. Also, it's really not fair to hold the teacher's job ransom and say that if they don't teach the way the test demands, they should lose their job. How
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    by aestetix 15y ago

    My two favorite metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of teaching are whether the students can teach other students, and whether they can create something new to share. They are very simple metrics which completely disregard test scores,
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    by aestetix 15y ago

    pg, thanks for bringing this up! It's actually a really dense topic, and there are a bunch of ways to look at it. Having done an increasing amount of public speaking over the last few years, I can say from experience that there are a lot of
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    by aestetix 15y ago

    Yeah, because teens would never lie about their age to get around stupid restrictions.
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    by aestetix 15y ago

    1. Take more risks. 2. Don't be afraid to fuck up and keep going, provided you learn why you fucked up and don't do it again. 3. A good sign that you've done something really worthwhile is that at least one person is pissed off at you. A go
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    XY Combinator: Y Combinator for Dating(xycombinator.com)

    18 points by aestetix 15y ago|8 comments