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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"to address the growing crisis in K-12 computer science education" As someone who never saw a computer in any of his K-12 days (long ago), I wonder how one measures the growth of the crisis. I suspect that if the schools could address writi
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
"For a long time, despite the occasional charge of liberal dogma on campus or of a watered-down curriculum, people tended to think the best of the college and university they attended." Not in my experience.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Alvin Kernan quotes the Princeton professor who say his president browsing the university bookstore: Why is that man reading? He should be out raising money!
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
For computing I'd definitely be interested in somebody with a music degree--music is said to have a strong correlation with programming ability. Of business and marketing I know nothing at all.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Right, but people aren't switching to Greyhound or going back to broadcast only.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I stand corrected on the family name. One can appeal, with Abraham Lincoln, to the better angels of our nature, but it is as well to be realistic about the worse ones.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
The corresponding questions do not really correspond, and their possible usefulness is questionable. The supposed correspondence on the Middle East is notably lame.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
The interesting thing is that Charles Wilson had been CEO of General Motors before Eisenhower appointed him Secretary of Defense. (Google "What's good for General Motors".) Was GM doomed that far back?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
The second at least I have seen attributed to Thomas Reed, Speaker of the House in the late 1890s.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
See: Bay of Pigs, the unfortunate matter of the Diem family; etc.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
??? Under PythonWin 2.6.1 k[0]() gives me 1.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Some years back in Orlando I asked the bartender whether they poured anything smaller than a pint. Technically, she said, it's not a pint, it's 14 ounces. Fourteen ounces, I said, is more than technically not a pint, it's just simply not a
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
In Jon Bentley's long-ago "Programming Pearls" column in CACM he had at least one "Computer Science by Bumper Sticker" column. You can find one in the collection_Programming Pearls_ .
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
It beateth me. In their defense, most of who had to scour our brains for a quotation relating to Socrates would probably come up with "Know thyself", and would have to make a conscious effort to say "yourself."
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
SQL, or rather the relational model, is great for what it does. A thorough knowledge of both is central to most of what I've done over the last many years. But there are places where you don't really want named attributes with the names kno
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Knew a professor long ago who had worked for the AEC out on Long Island when a student. Some of the scientists would tune a cyclotron by putting an eye behind the target and waiting for the retina to light up, she said. She also said that a
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
But Churchill remained the awful strategist he had always been. Outstanding organizer for the Navy, inspiring leader, but: Norway, Anzio, the Dodecanese...
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Such offices exists here and there, sometimes to the discontent of the neighborhood. The vetting and recommendation service might unfortunately serve as a handy resource for the INS, though.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I've worked in minimum wage jobs before (janitor, field work) and I just don't see how the work ethics of an average American worker will suffice on a farm." Were you and your co-workers above average or non-American? As an American worker,
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Agreed on the whole, but with the reservation that one should not consider having children as a means of building character.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
A little context: the day after the last State of the Union address, The Washington Examiner front page featured Governor Robert McDonnell of Virginia, who gave the Republican response. The speech itself looks like innocuous fluff.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Next up, why Sandburg's "Tell me why a hearse-horse snickers/Carrying a lawyer's bones." is intended as a compliment. But no, Shakespeare does not depict Jack Cade as a statesman, is he?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I hope that at least a few middle-aged actresses are getting a laugh out of this. But "juvenolatry" strikes me as a barbarous coinage.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
The White Knight from Through the Looking Glass would be jealous.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Right, but so can alcohol, and mixing alcohol and tylenol can be bad for your liver.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
I've posted maybe two. The one I'm sure about was for a very handy O'Reilly book that got a bad review that was undeserved on the merits and made a passing reference to the author's politics. I thought the book better than that and the poli
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Confused about the syntax? Gosh, how could that happen?
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Yes, but King's _thesis_ was not a speech, rather a paper of many pages on Paul Tillich. (The religion departments will tell you that Tillich was influenced by Heidegger; the philosophy departments will tell you that Tillich copied great qu
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Wow. Next thing Souvenir will fight back.
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by balding_n_tired 16y ago
Sigh.

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