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by blahedo 14y ago
So: you went to college determined to find a path through it that would let you "get straight A's" and "graduate as quickly as possible", and then treated each course as a list of stuff to "check off"... and you're upset that you didn't get
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by blahedo 14y ago
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3960000 .
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by blahedo 14y ago
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3960028 .
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He's 30 now, right? So he arrived at age 10 and was a citizen sometime before 16. The rules are (as they should be) a little different for minors. Edit: dumb math error.
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by blahedo 14y ago
The article says he actually gave it up last September, so the numbers might have been fuzzier then. Regardless, he's protected from tax on any subsequent rise in stock price. You can't escape past or current tax, but you can "escape" fut
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Dutch court now bans links and instructions to access The Pirate Bay(bbc.co.uk)
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by blahedo 14y ago
Well the goals are good, but if you buy into the whole "noble savage" thing, the goals of a lot of the first-round colonialists weren't so bad either. I think the distinction between extracting vs creating wealth is a narrow one, when the
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by blahedo 14y ago
If the problem is that the government is dominated by a few wealthy families and heavily-invested foreign corporations control the exports, how could it possibly be solved by creating an area that is dominated by a board of a few wealthy pe
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by blahedo 14y ago
It was new to the cartridge-based consoles of the time; I suppose you could say it enabled the "adventure" genre on such devices, which would be unplayable without a save feature. Other games of the time, some of which had rather long play
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by blahedo 14y ago
I am indeed a teacher, as I said, and I'll add that the particular aspect of my post that is not explicitly addressed in Russell's commandments is the notion of students being smarter than the teacher. It's a useful lens through which you
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by blahedo 14y ago
A counterpoint: If you look back at the history of console games (and early PCs, for that matter), the 1980s were littered with examples of games that were ported from the upright arcade consoles to the home market; the home version was oft
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by blahedo 14y ago
I have one additional commandment, which I try to follow, and which is either a corollary to or a summary of several of Russell's: Always keep in mind that at least some of your students will be smarter than you. Give them what they need
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by blahedo 14y ago
I'm seeing a lot of negativity here that I don't understand. The post seemed fairly well-reasoned and reasonable; the objections seem to assume that the content of the objection should be obvious. It's not obvious to me---C++ is not a sup
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by blahedo 14y ago
But was he abusing warranty? They're transferrable.
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I thought it was a split frame thing too, but then noticed that they veer into the tens place pretty frequently and cast shadows. :) (And the other comments give more details about the original art installation.) That's not to say that you
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by blahedo 14y ago
Argh! I tuned in at 10:52 and wanted to stick around to see the :00 transition, and the player crapped out just at :59, and when I reloaded the 00 had already been switched, and they were just pulling off the pieces to switch 10 to 11.
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by blahedo 14y ago
> The ban only covers two buildings For now, with plans to phase in over a couple years, hence "starts ban". > any phone that allows [...] (not just Android phones) would be acceptable. Of which Android phones are the vast major
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by blahedo 14y ago
Me too; I actually use up arrow for history-search-backward and also bindkey -v, so ESC-k gives me a non-search history (like the default up arrow behaviour).
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by blahedo 15y ago
The privilege I'm referring to need not have anything to do with class (or race or gender for that matter), but just the privilege of having been successful. Many people work very hard and yet do not achieve that. The fact of your success
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's very easy to transform "I work hard, and am successful" into "I work hard, therefore I am successful," but this is a dangerous fallacy, as it leads directly into "That person is unsuccessful, therefore they aren't working hard enough."
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by blahedo 15y ago
The best part of this post was the dawning realisation about 2/3 of the way through the page that an actual font resulted from the experiment, and the page was displayed in it . It's a really attractive font, actually. Regular enough that
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by blahedo 15y ago
How is this significantly different from http://panopticlick.eff.org/ ?
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When I tried to tell my browser to scroll slightly to the right by pressing my right arrow key, the site hijacked the keypress and took me to an unrelated page. Wtf? FAIL. Edit: AND it keeps reloading itself every couple minutes. Who des
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by blahedo 15y ago
The solution to this is not making a design that is too wide to fit in my window, however.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Please explain why this is better.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Do you have any idea how much mathematical knowledge you've deployed in coming up with ways to defeat this thing? Anyone can come up with all of that (or even part of that!) is either not part of the target audience or has learned enough t
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by blahedo 15y ago
> "(I'd say the 13 million "SALES" are also an indicator of quality but, Angry Birds aside, there's no way a number that high was all paid downloads.)" Are you sure? Why?
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With only 3,000 viewers so far, perhaps it's just nobody's complained yet?
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I love the idea, although I think a lot of the comments here are missing the point---this is not about what you might be using, now, but rather what might be useful in a classroom situation. The giveaway is that if you turn off estimate
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by blahedo 15y ago
Yup! And I didn't mean to sound so negative (sorry). I do hope it works (and want to hear about it when it does!). I've definitely gotten really excited about assignments before when I thought they were neat and that the students ough

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