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by bobochan 7y ago
One of the benefits of this is Alon Zakai's wonderful compilation of the SQLite C code with Emscripten to generate sql.js, which I have found very useful for teaching SQL. https://github.com/kripken/sql.js
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by bobochan 7y ago
It used to be three years, but five years is now becoming common unless there is a compelling need. Honestly, I am okay with it. My current laptop is a Early-2015 MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM and it has been flawless since they day that I
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by bobochan 7y ago
I loved his series of "On To" books, e.g. "On To C", "On To C++", "On To Java". They were perfect when I was starting out and remained models of clarity when I started teaching.
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by bobochan 7y ago
Mid 50s. I still love programming but am very happy to have teaching, research, and writing too. Hoping to retire to Paris at 62 and everything seems to be on track.
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by bobochan 7y ago
I work in the US and since the Great Recession the swag that we used to get around the office (e.g. t-shirts, ice cream days) have really dried up. Spending on buildings, on the other hand, has increased rapidly. Last year I went to a meeti
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by bobochan 7y ago
I paid close to $2,000 in 1984 to buy my Apple //e at the Harvard Coop with the disk drive, monitor, and extended 80-column card. To put it in perspective, my private college expenses were $8,000 the same year.
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by bobochan 7y ago
We do not have many adjuncts so I don’t think we actually lose less money on undergraduates. If it were not for the generosity of alumni and an endowment built over two centuries then I am not sure how we would stay afloat.
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by bobochan 7y ago
As a parent paying college tuition right now I want to agree, but as a professor I see the other side of it. I teach at the graduate level and despite the high tuition we lose money on every student that we accept. It costs a lot to have fa
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by bobochan 7y ago
There was a non-alcoholic drink made in Nigeria, Maltina, that was made at a brewery as a non-alcoholic stout. I have not tried it, but it was quite popular and it looks like it has some distribution in Canada and the US.
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by bobochan 7y ago
It sounds like a savvy business move. My kids have been coming home from university and are not interested in alcohol when offered, other parents report the same. They really have a negative association with any drinking, in part because of
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by bobochan 7y ago
I would volunteer to teach programming, particularly at the high school or junior college level. I teach graduate students now but the real need is for people that really love the material to impart that excitement to students that are just
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by bobochan 8y ago
I was living in N’djamena, Tchad and there was a restaurant called Le Central on the main boulevard that officers from the Legion used to frequent. I was sitting at a nearby table finishing my bottle of Gala beer when they started to sing.
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by bobochan 8y ago
People that are pancreatic insufficient take replacement enzymes in capsule form and the dose is based on their size and the amount of fat in the meal that they are eating. There is a learning curve when they start but they get pretty adept
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by bobochan 8y ago
Preach. I have been to Burkina Faso, it is a beautiful country. I have come to terms with the fact that, at least at my age, I will probably never go back to Bangui, Central African Republic again. I always imagined I would walk by the Peac
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by bobochan 8y ago
Unrelated, I read some of your posts about your PhD research. Sounds fascinating! Best of luck.
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by bobochan 8y ago
It seems like the sign on that equation is wrong though, no? If social media was really a means of avoiding hardships then wouldn't leavers report great angst from withdrawal? Instead they report being happier. I keep seeing the word
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by bobochan 8y ago
I am prepared for this to be a minority opinion, but I liked FB when I joined and I still really like it. There may be many alternatives, but as someone who grew up with an acoustic coupler modem and an Apple //+, I do not take
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by bobochan 8y ago
VBA actually lets you decide at the top of each module whether to use 0 or 1 based indexing. The default value is 0, but you can specify "Option Base 1" to change that. There is an interesting note in the Wikipedia page for "
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by bobochan 8y ago
Thank you. He was quite entertaining and clear.
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by bobochan 8y ago
There is also no such institution as “Dartmouth University,” so I would guess that editors are in short supply over the holidays.
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by bobochan 8y ago
All are welcome, particularly if they want to start families. We could use many more young families with school age children. We are an old state with a dropping population, hence why the government is trying to attract new residents. Serio
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by bobochan 8y ago
This. Vermont and NH residents are much more concerned by property taxes and education funding. I do not love having to fill out yet another tax form for the state in VT, but the income tax is a rounding error compared to other expenses. Me
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by bobochan 8y ago
Vermonter here. The average Vermonter voted for a Socialist Senator, a Democratic Representative, and a Republican governor in the last election. The person tends to be much more important than the party. Vermont was reliably Republican unt
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by bobochan 8y ago
She was two years behind me in college and we played together in a group. She played keyboards and never mentioned that she could sing, or anything about this album. She was incredibly nice and very quiet. I think she transferred the next y
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by bobochan 8y ago
The elementary school was only a five minute walk away, but even still, the kids always wanted to be at school early to play soccer, ice skate, etc. It has always been more of an issue telling the kids that they cannot get to school too ear
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by bobochan 8y ago
> having free time after you put your children to bed, or watching one of the 17 Netflix shows everyone is talking about These are two things that are not a big sacrifice for me. But honestly, I am continually baffled by posts that insin
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by bobochan 8y ago
I got a call a few years ago from a member of a humanitarian organization that had accidentally lost a significant percentage of their web site detailing projects that they had completed over many years with no backups. The people that had
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by bobochan 8y ago
Not once. I have been doing it for just over 30 years now and I run up the steps to fire up emacs every morning. I have lived through an amazing time, from an Apple ][+ with 16k plugged into a black and white TV to mobile and communication
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by bobochan 8y ago
Awesome! I lived in Bangui, Central African Republic, for a few years and used to listen to "Radio Rural" every day (mostly for the music, but also to improve my Sango). One of the highlights of daily programming were the lists of
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by bobochan 8y ago
First of all, well done NH. As a Vermont resident I am happy when any Northern New England state does well. The table you link to shows Vermont coming in #12 in SAT scores, and I'll accept that for it is. Other sites (e.g. US News and

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