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by blahedo 15y ago
It's a neat idea, but I really want to hear an experience report on the results . I don't want to throw cold water on this, because I want it to work and I think it might, but I have a fair amount of experience here[0] and can think of a
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by blahedo 15y ago
> "Within one month, Airbnb had 24/7 support up and running. 8 months later, the system is running smoothly...." Implied: there were some rocky bits in the intervening 7 months. I'd love to hear about those! This certainly isn't a ju
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by blahedo 15y ago
I love it! The Boston Globe website (boston.com) had at one point demoed a similarly responsive front page, but they seem to have switched back to their old annoying format.
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by blahedo 15y ago
I am going to be so angry if[0] this makes web devs start designing for grids that have to be 1300px wide to work. I don't fullscreen anything (too wide for the height, and too wide for the font size!), and while the majority of webpages l
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by blahedo 15y ago
> "The terrible point is, basically, "men and women just can't help being sexually attracted to each other", and it permeates the entire article." What? The author of the article specifically addresses this and does not conclude th
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm sure they could have. But would they? The story would have at least played out differently if that initial conversation had gone, "hey, let's pay someone to painstakingly draw animals and then transfer them to scratchboard" rather t
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by blahedo 15y ago
There are relatively few people that take the cross-country trains end-to-end, and a lot of people that get on or off at some little town along the way. For many of the more rural parts of the country, this is their primary access to long-
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by blahedo 15y ago
> "Enforcing a reporting requirement on out-of-state retailers will, by definition, discriminate against the out-of-state retailers by imposing unique burdens on those retailers," Blackburn ruled." This is such bullshit. Not chargi
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm betting on April Fools for this one, too.
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by blahedo 15y ago
> So, if you use Twitter, you're someone's lab rat. Among others, Noah Smith's (and his grad students'): http://www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/
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by blahedo 15y ago
Yeah, that's the only one I can get too, with either of my regular browsers and no matter who the referrer is. No clue.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Still haven't removed the background wallpaper, though.
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by blahedo 15y ago
When I was in grad school there was a pizza-by-the-slice place where all prices were tax-included and an exact multiple of 25c. The only coins in their register were quarters. If you gave them any other coin, they counted it out and dumpe
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by blahedo 15y ago
Or, just skip the 20 cent and let 10/50 be the only subdivisions. (Currently, we get by with 1/5 and no 2.) Frankly, if we're talking radical reform I'd rather keep the quarter and ditch the dime; even 10c seems too small to fiddle with mo
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by blahedo 15y ago
The US hasn't had pounds for centuries and we still use phrases like "in for a penny, in for a pound". :)
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by blahedo 15y ago
Love it, but wasn't the software tricorder app shut down by CBS on the basis of trademark infringement? How on earth will this project survive that?
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's good to see real data to address this question, rather than the neverending stream of basically anecdotal information about the problem that we've been slinging around. It's especially interesting to see the percent of not just "good
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by blahedo 15y ago
> I get it, I get it! How many cliches do I have to scroll past before we reach mission accomplished? I don't know, you tell me? If you are objecting to the OP's bot but not to the original TWSS bot, it sounds like the mission hasn't
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Harry Potter breaks e-book lockdown(hosted.ap.org)
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's on point because "number of students who can integrate in 2012 vs 2011" is rather more like "percent of regression tests passed in 2012 projects vs 2011 projects" than it is like "quality of (?) search engine code vs quantum simulation
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by blahedo 15y ago
> How is the task heterogeneous? Within a single course, the heterogeneity comes from how to actually do things, how to understand what you did, how to understand what other people are doing when they do the same things, how to thin
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by blahedo 15y ago
Ok, now we're talking about grad school, rather than college in general. This is an entirely different thing than what you seemed to be talking about (and what I responded to). As a result, we're also talking more about aspiring administr
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by blahedo 15y ago
One of the dirty little secrets (ok, not really a secret) of the education system (higher or otherwise) is that it's not just about helping the students learn, but also verifying that they have done so and credentialing them. Online educ
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by blahedo 15y ago
> The problem is that programming is a far more heterogeneous task than teaching. I read this part of your comment, and immediately assumed that you were not a teacher. Then you said you were, and furthermore that your "methods were
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Teaching degrees in the United States ... consistently attract the dregs of the college applicant pool. I have to take issue with this statement because it unfairly paints an entire discipline with a broad brush. First of all, I do
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by blahedo 15y ago
> They also help, by identifying bad teachers and bad schools. Aside from the arguments posted in sibling comments about what's being measured, you also have a problem of unaligned incentives. In particular, your claim only has a cha
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by blahedo 15y ago
I really, really, really wish that anyone posting updated TOS (and similar contract-y documents) would include a diff with the old one.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Possibly not if they're in a country with a weaker economy, lower cost (and/or standard) of living, and no way to get a work visa someplace else?
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm going to frame this entire response in terms of watching football, because I want to be clear that it is not, here, the programming that is a problem, or even relevant. If you hung out with your friends (who all happen to be male) to
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by blahedo 15y ago
An active and egnaging discussion on sexism in tech and PR in the social age gets deleted as irrelevant (twice), but this sticks around? Awesome.

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