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by bobochan 10y ago
All good points. I personally consider every time I get in the car to be a failure on my part that I regret. It takes some planning, but I get around mostly by walking, biking, and taking advantage of our regional bus system (which admitted
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by bobochan 10y ago
I can understand everything you mentioned. I am a little over 50, but I have a salary commensurate with what most developers are getting. I can imagine that rock gyms and parks are nice, but my personal preference is actual rocks and trails
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by bobochan 10y ago
Why does it have to be urban? As a rural resident I do not understand the attraction. I can walk or bike everywhere that I want to go. Thousands of miles of trails branch out in every direction depending on my heart's content. Farms wi
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by bobochan 10y ago
I stand corrected. Excellent points.
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by bobochan 10y ago
This is a great suggestion. I will add that there are very groups of people more fun and open than those that are interested in the performing arts. One of the best things that ever happened to me in college was getting a job working backst
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by bobochan 10y ago
Well said. I can certainly understand that money matters, and I applaud the effort, but experience has taught me that developers that explain their learning in terms of "If I learn X, then I should be able to coast until retirement&quo
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by bobochan 10y ago
>I don’t like activities that don’t pay. I can’t keep on doing something simply for the fun of it. And, I'm out. As a fellow 50 something I could look past a lack of experience, but I loathe a lack of interest. The only programmers
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by bobochan 10y ago
I had a history teacher in college that assigned a 20 page paper. It was one of the biggest classes at the school, 100 students, so he had about 2,000 pages of grading to do. I got a decent grade, an A- if I recall, and two pages of handwri
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by bobochan 10y ago
"Why when I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"
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by bobochan 10y ago
This is a topic of research. Check out this very short paper by Robin Abraham, et al. titled "Speadsheet Programming": http://eusesconsortium.org/pubs/searchable/sheets.pdf Also, check out the work by Si
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by bobochan 10y ago
I regret that I took the easy way out studying math. When calculus was too hard in high school I switched into a Pascal class, that I already knew, because it was taught by the math department and gave me the same credit. I suppose my real
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by bobochan 10y ago
I use the Apple mini one. Good battery life and I'm happy enough with the feel.
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by bobochan 10y ago
This is the key for me. I have a first generation iPad and a bluetooth keyboard. The only apps that I really use are Prompt (an SSH app from Panic), Pocket, and iBooks. It is an old iPad, but perfectly usable as a terminal, and I can spend
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by bobochan 10y ago
Wow, thanks! My kids had been researching biathlon rifles and the only ones that they found were from either Germany or Russia, and the Russian ones were no longer being imported. We talked with biathletes training at Craftsbury this seaso
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by bobochan 10y ago
Everyone in my family nordic skis from the first snowflake in winter to the last slushy ribbon of snow melts in the spring. We would love to get into biathlon, but the rifles (which are amazing pieces of craftsmanship, to be sure) start at
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by bobochan 11y ago
The only performance that really matters to me is the ability to keep up with my typing over SSH, which the iPad handles beautifully. I have used Chromebooks and I do not get nearly the same utility out of them, mostly because I am very ha
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by bobochan 11y ago
I find the iPad is a great platform to have when you have a lot of different computing options available and just need a lightweight client to bring with you. The most important app for me is Prompt2, an SSH client, that allows me to be wo
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by bobochan 11y ago
I'm late to the conversation, but I bought a copy yesterday and I just could not be happier with the product. I'm hoping to convert all of my teaching notes and use the presentation mode in class. I have been a dedicated org-mode
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by bobochan 11y ago
I am glad that employers that mislabel employees as independent contractors are paying for their mistakes, but I am always a little disappointed when these articles appear. I am an adjunct professor, but I also have a full-time job as a pro
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by bobochan 11y ago
Haha! No worries. Mom does not frame any of my Hacker News karma points, so it is all good.
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by bobochan 11y ago
Ssshh! Don't let my mom hear that. She framed the first appointment letter that I received as an adjunct and gained great book club credibility by being able to refer to "my son, the Ivy League professor." Don't tell th
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by bobochan 11y ago
Whoa! Thank you for posting that. Looks like my Apple ][e is getting a bath!
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by bobochan 11y ago
I wish that I could give out those grades (except for the F, obviously). One of the drawbacks of our system is that we have to grade on a curve, particularly the number of top grades that we give. The deans can give some variation in that
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by bobochan 11y ago
Brilliant. About 75% of our class time is spent doing exercises in class with me roaming about, or at least it would be if I could remember to stop talking at certain points.
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by bobochan 11y ago
Thanks to everyone for their excellent suggestions. One of my reservations about going to an automated testing and grading approach is that the course evaluations consistently say that the personalized feedback is an important reason that t
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by bobochan 11y ago
This is very timely. For the past few years I have been teaching a programming course to small groups of beginning students, generally no more than 15. The goal is teach them the basics over the course of a semester, and we usually get th
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by bobochan 11y ago
My tools changed quite a bit this year. I am using: emacs textmate2 R python / pandas jupyter notebooks (python, R, julia kernels) c++ Clojure Common Lisp linux on the server os x on my laptop ipad / pr
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by bobochan 11y ago
Very cool. Cirque du Soleil (which is also based in Montreal) made an interesting movie featuring robot swarms last year in collaboration with ETH Zurich and Verity Studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C8OJsHfmpI
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by bobochan 11y ago
My in-laws live in western Massachusetts and I always wondered why the name of their small residential street suddenly changes halfway down the road. The story is that there was an old county road that used to intersect that street years a
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by bobochan 11y ago
Sure! As a Vermonter, I'm sure I would find a lot of fun things to do in Montana. We are friends with a lot of folks in the nordic skiing community in Wyoming, Colorado, and Alaska and they all sound like great places to live if you

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