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by bennyg 13y ago
You're describing the complete other end of the pendulum swing from me. You're placing the burden on the student - and when it comes to new material, that is the absolute last place you want to place the burden of learning on. Loo
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by bennyg 13y ago
Exactly. A discussion between manager/employee needs to happen there. Either it's actually a good idea to do X and the employee can rationalize why or it's a better idea to do Y, and the manager can rationalize why.
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by bennyg 13y ago
I didn't say nor suggest the "dumbing down." An effective communicator gets his/her point across - that's the definition. Trust me, if you can't create another example or analogy off of the material you are sup
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by bennyg 13y ago
The first key is the ability to recognize that a student or class of students is not understanding an explanation, and generalize it further or change the example to make it more clear. Do that ad infinitum (a really good teacher can get it
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by bennyg 13y ago
Only on HackerNews...
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by bennyg 13y ago
That sounds like an awesome experiment too. More info on an experiment similar to what the spam comment suggests: http://www.planarians.org/
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by bennyg 13y ago
That link can't be found. Any mirrors?
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by bennyg 13y ago
What's to stop a direct packet copy? The line goes in, a digital device sees the packets, copies them bit for bit and sends the original to their destination and a copy to the NSA. Similar to headphone splitting.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Interesting your mind went there. It's fascinating to see how people categorize things based on prior knowledge and experience.
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by bennyg 13y ago
You act like I don't use my Art degree. Not only did I program my apps, I designed them too. I think a lot of the work was useless and antiquated, and didn't prepare any of my classmates and I for a life in the age where software
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by bennyg 13y ago
Sometimes. I graduated with a 2.8 and an Art degree from a state school (albeit a good one). I thought most of my assignments were bullshit and didn't do some of them - who wants to design another fucking brochure for a fake client. I
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by bennyg 13y ago
I think the problem is the belief that top talent only exists in SV - which is false. To me, I think top talent would be less willing to work insane hours, less willing to have long commutes, and less willing to spend a TON on housing. If G
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by bennyg 13y ago
Exactly. The heyday of SV (think microprocessor and early PC heyday) had insanely low real estate prices. A guy could get buy doing manual labor and tinker on computers as a side project in the garage back then. Today that's unthinkabl
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Yasiin Bey (rapper Mos Def) undergoes same force feeding happening at Gitmo.(world.time.com)
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by bennyg 13y ago
I also have a government job and I can tell you that the job titles don't mean anything really. I'm an IT Technical Specialist 2, but if we're using words that mean something I create iOS applications.
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by bennyg 13y ago
That sounds like dangerous intellectual territory. I wish he would have remained anonymous the whole time, almost like a Banksy character through this all. I almost feel like we're seeing too much of his face and not enough (like the t
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by bennyg 13y ago
Beautiful, that's exactly what I wanted to see. I agree with the other commenter who missed the link. You should combine those into one page.
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by bennyg 13y ago
For other people, maybe. The market's starting to get flooded with mobile devs I believe - and making a hit on your own is just non calculable for potential profit.
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by bennyg 13y ago
I think it'd be cool to see more visualizations of that data. What percentage was around the median and mean? What percentage of people charged under $50/hr?
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by bennyg 13y ago
Clint Eastwood's Pauli Exclusion Principle: This energy state ain't big enough for the both of us.
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by bennyg 13y ago
> that did and still get by with laxer schooling, less "boring stuff", and more "creativity". Creativity is inherently good. It's literally what brought us from the plains fighting large animals to making monolit
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by bennyg 13y ago
As a person who had retinal detachment and ended up being blind in one eye, this is what I'm hoping for within about ten years. A way to get to my depth perception back would be great.
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by bennyg 13y ago
On one hand, it's good to analogize and metaphorize brain functions with computers. But I think it's also not very wise to bet the whole farm on the whole thing being directly parallel.
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by bennyg 13y ago
What I'm saying is that the head is an element in the set of parts called the body. The head is a body part. It isn't separate from the body, it is intertwined with it. Identity isn't totally centered in the brain (at least f
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by bennyg 13y ago
No, it's a head transplant. The head is part of the body. There is nothing metaphysical about a head. That's not where the philosophical language problems come into play. The problems start when you talk about WHO the combinated p
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by bennyg 13y ago
You just got me REALLY interested in the Fast Fourier Transform.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Don't know if anyone else will tell you, but thanks for doing that.
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by bennyg 13y ago
That'd be an interesting project to further subvert the unlimited data that carriers hate.
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by bennyg 13y ago
This is why, in this age of mass media and constant opinion, perception is the only thing that matters. The NSA has been doing this for years and other countries have too. Everyone suspected it, backhandedly inferred it. Now the outrage hap
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by bennyg 13y ago
I guess what I mean is, that for Art - a group of students learning from multiple artists and working together without a teacher (art school is really about the work you do after hours anyways) is the best way. Whether that counts as being

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