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by bphogan 11y ago
Teachers are not all organized like that. Just the ones for public schools.
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by bphogan 11y ago
Another thread said it. Pay them well. You pay me a nice salary and let me interact with students who want to learn and I will gladly develop great curriculum and deliver excellent results.
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by bphogan 11y ago
I had a bunch of work to get to today, so I just didn't have time to mess with this. But the problems seem to have gone away.
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by bphogan 11y ago
Same results on Chrome. I am not on a corporate network - I am at home. Are there tools I can use to work my way through this?
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by bphogan 11y ago
I can proceed if I add an exception. But I don't know if I want to add an exception. Edit: Clock is automatically set via OSX. Not a problem with other sites. Firefox says tails.boum.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certi
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by bphogan 11y ago
Firefox refuses to let me look at this page because of a certificate problem. Not to go off on a rant, but this is what the "everyone must use https because we said so" edict is going to cause - it's not enough you use https,
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by bphogan 11y ago
...no, the marketing department's job is to market the company and keep it in the public eye. Perhaps you're thinking of an advertising agency. And I've observed they have the same problem. If a web developer was large enough
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by bphogan 11y ago
Why don't I like this? I don't think it's HTTPS.... I think I don't like that one company has this much power over the web. This seems awfully familiar...
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by bphogan 11y ago
Because they don't get paid to build their own stuff. They get paid to do work for clients. A variation on the "shoemaker has no shoes."
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by bphogan 11y ago
That's what the state prioritizes. But at the college level, enrollment is always prioritized because people who come in don't always complete. Attrition, transfers, etc. So enrollment must be way over 100% each year to have a sho
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by bphogan 11y ago
Three things colleges care about: 1. Enrollment 2. Retention 3. Graduation with a job. Enrollment is priority one, so they need nice campuses to get you in the door, good facilities to entice you to come. They'll advertise small class
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by bphogan 11y ago
You're right. They say "professor with experience in her field." Which is what an adjunct provides when done right. Unfortunately enrollment is a big deal at schools, and sometimes more classes are offered than there are peo
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by bphogan 11y ago
Presenting things that are not peer reviewed is generally considered bad science, is it not? This kind of "science" happens here on HN every day and nobody bats an eye. "We used XYZ framework and it's the best thing ever
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by bphogan 11y ago
I agree. One scientist does a study, finds a thing. Another group attempts to repeat the study (as one does in science) and finds different results. Sounds like science to me.
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by bphogan 11y ago
No, no, I get that. That's how I do my stuff and have always done it. We used to call that "progressive enhancement". But it's easy to say "ehhh just render the whole page statically first then re-render parts in JS
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by bphogan 11y ago
I'd love to see books, screencasts, or tutorials that talk about doing this beyond the very trivial. I hear people talk about it, but whenever I ask, they can't show me code because reasons. This makes me skeptical. And based on w
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by bphogan 11y ago
Tons of news sites are doing exactly this. I can't tell you how many times I follow a link from Facebook or other social media, only to be brought to a page where a spinning gif spins for several seconds while JS loads the article.
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by bphogan 11y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm currently annoying myself by learning Elm. :)
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by bphogan 11y ago
I agree with all of those points. But meeting the needs of customers is what I get paid to do. And customers don't want server-side rendered stuff. They hate losing their place when they add a row of data. So what are ya gonna do? See,
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by bphogan 11y ago
Can't upvote hard enough. Applications on the web are amazing, and developers must embrace JavaScript heavily. That said, the apps do need to remain accessible to those with screen readers, vision issues, motor impairments, and cogniti
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by bphogan 11y ago
Hah! I did. Thanks!
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by bphogan 11y ago
I really agree with this. But I have to say it's not just companies. Look at the fast pace of open source software, web frameworks, etc. So much focus on "getting there quickly." A few keystrokes and a marketing page, and eve
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by bphogan 11y ago
Yea. That's kinda like what Elm does for its views. ul [] [ li [] text "Foo"], li [] text "Bar"] ] Took a while to "get" it, but now I really like it. (`ul` and `li` are functions
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by bphogan 11y ago
This is so common among developers. We forget how the complexity happened bit by bit. But when we explain it to a newbie, it all comes back. Want to re-evaluate your whole base of knowledge? Teach programming to adults who have never writte
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by bphogan 11y ago
> Even worse, this locked-down, "looking inside will void your warranty" attitude (which Rails often calls "convention over configuration") frequently means that the workaround must be somewhat pervasive and ugly up
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by bphogan 11y ago
> and experienced developers usually come to appreciate it. I find statements like this a bit condescending. It's like when Java developers say 'Oh, that's nice, but I work on big applications." "Obviously you
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by bphogan 11y ago
Agree. But the churn on gems is very painful. To be successful with Rails long term, you must make time to constantly upgrade your framework, for for too often a gem maintainer will just stop supporting older versions of the framework. And
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by bphogan 11y ago
Yet the code behind the REPL knows exactly what I was attempting to do and tells me that. This is what Ruby developers mean when they say they optimize for developer happiness over bowing to the will of the computer. /uses Python regul
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by bphogan 11y ago
Responsible adults manage debt. In my opinion it's a sign of immaturity to exclude funding sources available to you to accomplish goals. If the goal is starting a business, borrowing money to do so helps you get to market. If you have
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by bphogan 11y ago
I have low vision. This makes me different from many people as I learned to navigate the world in a different way. My mental models are different, my perception is different. I am a different human being. I would swap my eyes for good ones

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