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by blahedo 13y ago
> had blocked the interstate There's a permanent roadblock across northbound lanes of interstates in New Mexico (and, I think, Arizona), and across many of the smaller roads in southern Arizona (and, presumably, New Mexico). &gt
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by blahedo 13y ago
What this suggests is that "await" isn't like all structured programming, it's like one control construct. The history of structured programming is the development of more constructs as people realised that they had
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by blahedo 13y ago
Holy crap, everyone here needs to take a deep breath. And, preferably, look at the law itself (not just this article). Despite the author wringing his hands and clutching his pearls about how this law is soooooo hard to understand, it&#x2
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Sharing science is a crime(aljazeera.com)
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by blahedo 13y ago
More precisely, it's the British spelling of "jail" (and pronounced the same way).
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by blahedo 13y ago
> IMO Note: science is not about your opinion. > unambiguity is essential Is it? We function in the presence of ambiguity all the time . Sometimes, we let the ambiguity ride. Sometimes, we take a sentence that is (by itself) a
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by blahedo 13y ago
Linguist here.[0] Yes, this is a nitpick, but no apologies, because this is Hacker News. :) Unfortunately, languages don't always work the way that logicians would like them to do. Yes, we can read that sentence as the English-langua
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by blahedo 13y ago
I've read enough science fiction based on this principle that I'm semi-comfortable with kiloseconds, megaseconds, and gigaseconds (roughly a quarter hour, a tenday, and a third of a century, respectively). I'm not sure what
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UberX in LA: It's Illegal. It's Great. It Needs to Stop.(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
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by blahedo 13y ago
Oh! That makes so much more sense now. Thanks!
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by blahedo 13y ago
Love it! But I am having a hard time figuring out when exactly I can/can't "pick up" a point from somewhere else: sometimes tick marks appear at the distance I'm looking for, sometimes not. Also, it seems odd that
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by blahedo 13y ago
Yes and no. In the common law systems (including both UK and US) where precedent is important and case law reigns supreme, what's actually written down may not mean what the words plainly say, if their interpretation has morphed throu
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by blahedo 13y ago
> If you want long term economic security, own something. Ah, let me commend you on your effective and nuanced translation of the French original, "Le peuple n'a pas de pain ? Qu'il mange de la brioche." Very idiom
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by blahedo 13y ago
How is it not a permanent problem? Are you seriously asserting that the skills and jobs that workers re-train into will not have the exact same problem before long?
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by blahedo 13y ago
> The Atlantic is really churning out great articles on this, another good one from yesterday I agree; and anyone else out there who agrees should consider getting a subscription. Information may want to be free, but content productio
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by blahedo 13y ago
Other than "be friends with a VP at Google"?
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Thoughts on the current state of sync(cgpgrey.com)
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by blahedo 13y ago
Well, "TSA threat level", which was #3 on the list.
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by blahedo 13y ago
Those graphs do not tell the stories that he claims they do. Or at least, not without a lot more explanation than he gave.
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by blahedo 14y ago
FFS, ABC: "Barhoun's younger brother, who declined to be identified..." Seriously? First of all, the kid is under 18, so you shouldn't be identifying him anyway without his parents' permission, but second, you just identified him .
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by blahedo 14y ago
The word used in the French version is "convoquer", which is the same word used for "draft" in the military sense. I think it has a strong connotation of obligation, i.e. you can't refuse it.
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by blahedo 14y ago
Did you read the caption? The claim is that in other countries the variance is extremely small. You could dispute that claim, perhaps, but that's not what you've done here. (My objection to the graphs is that the bars are for 25-50-95th p
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by blahedo 14y ago
Well, sort of. It also primes you for an awful lot of conceptual development in the area of metacognition and computer science---understanding how to reason about a problem. While it doesn't necessarily explicitly teach the concept of pro
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by blahedo 14y ago
Hidden in the middle of the article: "The majority of the budget was allocated to train chess players to become good teachers." It's nice to see someone acknowledge that being good at a thing does not automatically make one a good teacher o
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by blahedo 14y ago
Don't put the cart before the horse: videos are only one way to cover the material, and not always (or even usually) the best one. The people that are strongly pushing videos as an integral component of flipping the classroom are in fact s
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by blahedo 14y ago
No need; I think the original formulation--- as a mnemonic ---is just fine. We don't really need a "general rule" here anyway, and to be honest, English orthography and "general rules" don't really go well together. The only reason I poste
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by blahedo 14y ago
If you are using this as a mnemonic about its/it's, this is fine; but your statement of it is as a rule ("the apostrophe replaces the missing letters in contractions") is misleadingly incomplete. Apostrophes do that, but they also serve as
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by blahedo 14y ago
Original HN title: "950 million of 1 billion of Groupon's funding wasn't used to fund the company" This also stood out to me as an interesting claim from the article. Does anyone have a perspective on how that can happen without raising so
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by blahedo 14y ago
> would it be difficult to decouple the assessment of an instructor from the test results of his/her students? In fact, I think it would be critical to do so. Students may perform well on the exam for any number of reasons other th
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by blahedo 14y ago
This is the magic quote: "Now, educators in Wisconsin are offering a possible solution by decoupling the learning part of education from student assessment and degree-granting." Speaking as an educator (I teach undergrad-level CS) I would

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