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by aik 15y ago
>> But that raises a concern of mine, where every school creates their own textbook, they are free to include their own side or angle of a particular topic True, but who's to say a major publisher has experts and know what they're d
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by aik 15y ago
Because no one actually knows exactly what the best things to learn are for human beings. Plus, it's constantly changing. Secondly, different teachers have different experiences and teach differently. We're human! How could it be the same
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by aik 15y ago
That's great, thanks for sharing. "Very importantly, we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.... I believe if you don’t have that set of things in your corporate culture, then you can’t do large-scale invention. You can
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"If those three conditions are not met, please ignore the rest of this post, you have already made some bad decisions and the question of staying in or dropping out is the least of your problems." I could be mistaken, but I'm convinced that
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http://www.nest.com/living-with-nest/index.html $173 in savings in 12 months on an average annual energy bill of $2200. 12.7% in savings over 12 months.
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I wonder how Jobs' death affected Ive? I would think Ive must be hugely grateful for what Jobs saw in him.
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I find it interesting how the HN post title isn't something like "Check out these Copywriting books I wrote", but rather something that sounds like a simple blog post but is instead a landing page for some ebooks. Worked for me! I'm consid
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by aik 15y ago
Nice. I've been stopped as well. The most recent time it was raining and I had just been tossed off my bike at a fast speed. Shortly thereafter a cop stopped me, and while pondering how I would explain my situation in nihongo, he called in
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Very interesting. It's clear that Missouri (where I used to live) doesn't have open enrollment. A huge amount of resources are spent on ensuring students do NOT cross district lines. As a personal example, certain ESL students in my mother'
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In my moms school district it's even worse. If a person from a district attends school in a district that isn't in their district, the school they attend receives no funding for that particular person. Generally schools are funded to a degr
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by aik 15y ago
>> In case you needed further proof of the American education system's failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. I'm not sure if it is entirely
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by aik 15y ago
We're talking about 2 completely different things here: 1. Investing in your future skills, and 2. Having the necessary tools to do your job. I don't know a single teacher that confuses these. If I want to become better at my job, clearly i
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by aik 15y ago
That's interesting. Isn't one of your primary benefits (from the employer point of view) the fact that you are a premium supplier of great talent? "Great talent" including "reliable"? If not, what separates you from any other freelancer web
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by aik 15y ago
Interesting. What I would love to understand is where exactly he was mentally prior to starting this challenge. Is he naturally a person who strives to grow even when tasks become automatic, or has the change of mindset been part of his tra
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Interesting top response in the previous discussion. I disagree almost completely with him. A majority of people who play a sport (or learn any skill for that matter) are specifically not deliberate about their practice, and hence never sur
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I got the same thing when I scrolled down to the bottom and clicked on "Next page".
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>I’m hung up on the question of how any OS that lets you do everything Windows does could compete with the iPad, because the iPad’s appeal and success is largely forged by the advantages that come from not allowing you to do so many of
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by aik 15y ago
Hello Yuri -- I e-mailed you. My invite code has expired so I'm not able to try again.
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I tried this once a year or so ago, but for whatever reason it wasn't able to get through my corporate firewall, while Dropbox was. I am curious if that has been resolved?
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I'm logging in from AU and not seeing it in any of my browsers.
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by aik 15y ago
Sorry that was my point. I agree Japanese doesn't have more syllables, but a denser syllabic structure and less information packed into the x amount than the ambiguous standard they set. Less information is space x and equal time to convey
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by aik 15y ago
I believe that is in line with their findings. Since Japanese has more syllables than any other tested language (where nearly every other letter is a vowel) it would make sense that a faster rate of unknown syllables flying by would result
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by aik 15y ago
I'd like to comment on one point that Eric made that is very contrary to popular belief [summary, not a quote]: Outsourcing of manufacturing often does NOT occur as a result of lower labor costs abroad, but is rather a matter of quality ou
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by aik 15y ago
tokenadult, you're often involved in the conversations on education and math education, often with insightful comments. I'm just curious -- what is your viewpoint specifically on how one should measure an "excellent job of teaching"? Do yo
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Some of the key points I found interesting: - Great teachers tended to set big goals for their students. - Great teachers were perpetually looking for ways to improve their effectiveness. - Superstar teachers had four other tendencies in co
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I think it's inappropriate to speculate on what "good" someone is contributing to the world, period. So much of it is determined by intentions, plans, and time -- these are things that are invisible to everyone but the individual. Instead w
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Just one question: Are these two statements different or restating the same thing with a different perception: >> after years on OS X, I still discover hidden elegance and something like: "It takes me years to find some features bec
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by aik 15y ago
One more point in addition to the other comments here: Whenever topics like Apple come up (as in your example), a lot of people for whatever reason are instantly emotionally involved (either that, or it attracts the emotionally involved on
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> "The issue boils down to the pervasiveness of bad teachers in the system, and an inability to get rid of those teachers and reward/promote good teachers." As others have mentioned, that is seen as a solution (and one that the US is ac

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