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by blahedo 12y ago
Well, the writing isn't news, it's magazine. Different communicative goal.
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Misogynistic gamebros drove these two women out of gaming(wehuntedthemammoth.com)
4 points by blahedo 12y ago|1 comments
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by blahedo 12y ago
I think that "on top of" is meant metaphorically, as in usages like "the apartment was small so everyone lived right on top of each other". This can be contrived to make a sort of sense if the author (of that anecdote)
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by blahedo 12y ago
Where are you getting that? Gn 1 has "male and female he created them" with no further detail, and the Gn 2 story has Eve being created from Adam's rib, rather different from the double-body creation story.
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by blahedo 12y ago
This is neat, but I can't believe the author managed to get through that entire explanation without ever using the word "heap". Perhaps he doesn't realise that his numbering is essentially using the same trick that we u
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by blahedo 12y ago
Fully agreed that citation is needed here, but I thought the Torah was first written down during the exiles (though, to be sure, based on oral tradition that was much older); the given "some have speculated" would be more or less
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by blahedo 12y ago
My best-of-both-worlds has been a Surface Pro 2, although I'm aware that isn't a solution for everyone. As for "The apostrophe is inserted automatically", there are two big problems with that: one, I turn off auto-spelli
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by blahedo 12y ago
The two main consortia developing Common-Core-targeted testing are both aiming for computer-only. Among other things, it enables new question types that are still objectively scorable but have more flexibility than the traditional single-s
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by blahedo 12y ago
A lot of people claim that the on-screen "keyboard" is a keyboard, so it's plausible that some people bought into that. Lack of keyboard is a non-starter for me for any serious device, but I lost count of the number of peopl
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by blahedo 12y ago
This is the issue where it really falls apart for me. As someone who regularly stays up until 2 or 3 or 5 am even now, I'm well aware of the careful phrasing that is required if I send an email in the wee hours referring to upcoming e
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by blahedo 12y ago
A lot of people and a lot of articles discuss resistance to this as a matter of misguided "politeness", and a LOT of the support for it carries a tone of smugness---there is definitely a weirdly emotional component to this. But
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by blahedo 12y ago
Except that red means "stop", so presumably that whole "you don't have to stop" thing wouldn't work.
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by blahedo 12y ago
The problem with e.g. W=В or X=Ь is that they want glyph matching; so the roman alphabet B and the cyrillic alphabet В (even though they are different letters) map to each other, to avoid having same-looking codes map to different locations
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by blahedo 12y ago
Remember that I was talking about novice programmers, here. I'll concede that "idiomatic" was a bit strong (and the True/False thing was a brain fart), but I think my main point stands: encouraging the use of an "e
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by blahedo 12y ago
What's more, it dances very close to something that is a super-common error for novice programmers: the early return from a loop. I grade AP exams every year, and one of the hands-down most common conceptual mistakes I've seen (o
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by blahedo 12y ago
I'm glad OW got a mention here; I miss its tabs very much. More than just putting the tabs vertically, it included a thumbnail and a scrollbar, both of which I found incredibly helpful; my workflow hasn't been the same since I sw
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by blahedo 12y ago
Matching the Caltrain prices exactly seems like a brilliant marketing move on their part, actually. If they can do it sustainably for that price, that is.
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by blahedo 12y ago
> ... but would turn into a mess with the proposed "fix". Can you explain why?
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by blahedo 12y ago
Argh, yes, you're exactly right, and now I'm too late to edit my post. I hate it when I get that backwards; sorry about that.
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by blahedo 12y ago
let/var solve a different problem than the question of whether the array itself is mutable. Look back at the OP, and in particular at the last example section, which lays out the behaviour of various combinations of let/var with
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by blahedo 12y ago
I wish I could upvote this a hundred times; rarely have I seen so well-laid out a post on such a subtle topic. Just as I would form a thought like, "the author needs to explicitly break this down as an issue of variables vs values&quo
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by blahedo 12y ago
And by "preferred" you presumably mean "most used". I live in a town that, inexplicably, does not have access to natural gas lines. A lot of people here would "prefer" gas stoves but we're stuck with e
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by blahedo 12y ago
Thanks for responding! Do you still have in your notes the breakdown for each course whether it's CS0 or CS1? That would be good to put into the table in some form so the rest of us can make our own judgements about what that might m
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by blahedo 12y ago
This methodology is suspect, and the headline is extremely deceptive. Note that Guo has conflated CS0 (meaning: CS for non-majors) with CS1 (meaning: intro to CS major). He is upfront about this fact and he does it intentionally, but comm
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by blahedo 12y ago
Happily, Obamacare limits the extent to which they can do that.
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by blahedo 12y ago
I agree, but I'll add that a minor variant of that "you can call me either X or Y" is really annoying, because in my experience "it doesn't matter to me" is almost never actually true. I see this a lot with
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by blahedo 12y ago
I know it's appallingly low-tech, but when I download a PDF, I paste the author/title into a text file alongside the PDF's filename. Works well for as infrequently as I check any particular paper.
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E-voting experiments end in Norway amid security fears(bbc.com)
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by blahedo 12y ago
You'll notice I'm not suggesting we stop teaching them. But what you describe are specialised applications; my point is that where linked lists were once something that every programmer, large and small, could reliably expect to
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by blahedo 12y ago
This article raises, sort of incidentally, one of the issues I've noticed recently teaching intro CS. Every CS2 class teaches linked lists, right? (Except for the ones that hit them in CS1, of course.) But: when was the last time yo

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