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by cproctor 8y ago
I started transitioning away from Gmail (to Fastmail) last fall, forwarding my gmail and using a signature asking people to update their address book. This is a good day to make the hard cutoff. One strategy for explaining the problem to no
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by cproctor 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but I'd like to argue for keeping your information in (backed up) local-filesystem files in the first place. I work with collaborators at several universities. Google seems to be pushing defaults toward institutio
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by cproctor 8y ago
In a big tree, no tags. It has taken a little while to figure out the shape of my life, but things now fit pretty nicely. I think the work of figuring out the one place where each thing fits is mostly valuable, not overhead. Having a deep
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by cproctor 8y ago
I can't help but wonder whether quadcopters will be where governments finally legislate control over general computation. Having access to bare metal means nobody can stop inexpensive and socially-disruptive quadcopter applications. Ho
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by cproctor 8y ago
As many have pointed out before, this is straightforward with email. My communication with Amazon goes to amazon.com@accounts.mydomain.com, and I can stop listening on that socket whenever I like. This is much harder on social media because
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by cproctor 8y ago
I agree with the other responder--it's better to have the jar covered. However, fermentation produces CO2, so you can't have it sealed. Fermentation crocks have a water ring for the lid to sit in so excess gas can bubble out, but
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by cproctor 8y ago
It's pretty flexible, but I'll usually cut up a dozen jalapeños, half a head of garlic, some coriander and cumin, pack it down in a jar, and cover it with water and somewhere around 3% salt by weight. If you don't have a scal
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by cproctor 8y ago
Fermented hot sauce (instead of vinegar) is a revelation, and not hard to get right!
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by cproctor 8y ago
> He said that passenger feedback was “overwhelmingly good” during a five-month trial at Charles de Gaulle last year, where the system operated so seamlessly that some customers were not even aware a robot had been involved.
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by cproctor 8y ago
Reading this, I was reminded of Herb Simon's "Sciences of the Artifical," which makes the point that often complexity is the result of interaction with the environment. His example is of an ant walking through sand. The ant f
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by cproctor 8y ago
I got some good advice about a decade ago, which I've used for guidance and, on reflection, has served me well. You're not well-positioned to understand the core nature of problems, and which are most important, from the outside.
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by cproctor 8y ago
I don't think I'd choose Ink for parsing open-ended responses. Ink is an interesting language--it gives up some elegance in its programming syntax to gain more of a prose-like feeling. (I think the level of tradeoff is roughly com
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by cproctor 8y ago
Ah--probably a result of Google deprecating Google Plus APIs. I thought I had a little more time; Google said "On March 7, 2019, all Google+ APIs and Google+ Sign-in will be shut down completely. This will be a progressive shutdown beg
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by cproctor 8y ago
Huh--sorry! It just worked for me; i'll check the logs later today. Thanks for letting me know.
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by cproctor 8y ago
I'm currently finishing my PhD on interactive storytelling--how rhetoric works in interactive stories, how they can function as models or simulations of social realities (and thereby help us understand the dynamics of positionality, ra
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by cproctor 8y ago
The fun of the game is that it's played at two levels--tactics during gameplay and strategy as you tune your deck. To get this effect without pay-to-play, you can get some friends together, deal twenty cards to each player, and then ta
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by cproctor 8y ago
Future interview question for a company with a mission statement it takes seriously: "I see that you worked at fb from 2018 on. Tell me about your broader career goals and how that fits into them." If employers publicized such que
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by cproctor 8y ago
This article takes one finding from a survey (that most Americans feel "political correctness is a problem") and runs free with broad interpretations that are not supported by the study. The article borrows the study's credib
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by cproctor 8y ago
I applaud the authors of this letter. It's an open question whether an open, democratic society can exist in the world of computational media. If it can, we'll either need a well-educated citizenry or a benevolent oligarchy of peo
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by cproctor 8y ago
I find particularly interesting the claim that the literary novel ha[s] quit center stage of our culture and [is] in the process, via university creative writing programs, of becoming a conservatory form, like the easel pain
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by cproctor 8y ago
I feel like he's right on. No denying that growing up in US schools is a bad experience for a lot of people. After teaching for six years and developing ed-tech for two, I thought the most effective path would be doing a PhD, which is
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by cproctor 8y ago
> Like the other guilds, teacher training probably has a lot of inertia and indoctrination. Teaching instructors teach student teachers how they managed their classrooms, not realizing that the actual "traditional" approach to
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by cproctor 8y ago
As a middle-school CS teacher, I wrote a networking simulation [1] to help my students get a sense of how the packets get routed to their destinations. Importantly, it's vulnerable to spoofing, snooping, and censorship... students figu
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by cproctor 8y ago
Maybe it's time for a raw materials recycling startup. Cruise around the city with a van, pick up bikes, and sell them for scrap.
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by cproctor 8y ago
Congratulations! These look really nice! If you wanted to make them more useful and inspiring to other teachers, it would be wonderful to pair them with an essay on how they can be used effectively in class. Do students use them to explore,
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by cproctor 8y ago
Anne Applebaum's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956" documents the process of imposing authoritarianism. Particularly important is the combination of surveillance and the threat of violence. You can&#x27
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by cproctor 8y ago
Agreed! Though it's still about 80 pages. If you want to experience Moby Dick but don't feel like a strong reader or haven't found a way to enjoy this kind of literature, I'd recommend the audiobook while you're dri
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"The preceding sections have attempted to develop the thesis that the properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathemati
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by cproctor 8y ago
It's not that hard to do your taxes on your own, especially if you have last year's as a model to check yourself. For computationally-oriented folks, I imagine you probably want to have a mental model of how you're presenti

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