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by cproctor 9y ago
It's not about which subjects build on each other. These two are the subjects that have mandated federal testing in the US [1]. Low test scores in reading and math have consequences for schools and their leaders, so they get the priori
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by cproctor 9y ago
Same here. The recent examples of people finding it difficult to delete Facebook because of social logins to accounts on other sites reinforces how social logins lock you into a service.
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Ask HN: Non-English programming communities?
3 points by cproctor 9y ago|2 comments
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by cproctor 9y ago
Read Mindstorms (Papert, 1980).
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by cproctor 9y ago
This offers an interesting take on Moore's law.
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by cproctor 9y ago
And it's changing quickly. Here's the same statistic from the last 30 years: 1988–1994 54.9 1999–2000 64.1 2001–2002 65.6 2003–2004 66.5 2005–2006 67.3 2007–2008 68.3 2009–2010 69.2 2011–2012 69.0 2013–2014 70.7 https:/&#x2F
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by cproctor 9y ago
Finally, I broke 500! If you get your ship circling so that it appears briefly in each corner, you can get a nice stationary cloud of dots.
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by cproctor 9y ago
I feel bad for human customer service workers. It's already a job that demands a lot of emotional labor, without customers shouting "representative!" at them.
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by cproctor 9y ago
Have you seen the Runit Dome? https://goo.gl/maps/55YfnL15iWN2 It's mesmerizing to scroll around looking for circles in the ocean. And then to spend all night reading depressing wikipedia articles about past behav
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Ask HN: How has HN changed?
2 points by cproctor 9y ago|0 comments
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by cproctor 9y ago
This is an interesting thought experiment, but I imagine it having precisely the opposite effect. Modernism, as a technology, works precisely by making power relationships seem obvious, natural, and therefore not something subject to critiq
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by cproctor 9y ago
If you want to follow this idea further, I highly recommend Scott's "Seeing Like a State." It's an analysis of how states exert power by imposing legibility--insisting on having access and to measuring in certain ways. H
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by cproctor 9y ago
To put it in terms that might be more familiar around here, obsessing over finding the right partner is like believing that a successful startup is mostly about finding the right idea. (And from there, it will just work out on its own...) S
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by cproctor 9y ago
I wonder whether NSA uses syntactic watermarking[1], imperceptible changes to word order or sentence form, keyed to the user accessing a document. This, or other techniques of embedding a fingerprint in the text itself, would allow a leaker
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by cproctor 9y ago
ingenuousness? English is such a mess!
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by cproctor 10y ago
Beautiful, and looks thoughtfully-designed. I'm looking forward to seeing this develop. One bug: In "Distributions", when you add several different values, they are graphed in lexical order, not numerical order: -5, 104, 12,
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by cproctor 10y ago
I bet it would look really cool to have 3D primitives that can be oriented with respect to the time dimension. So for example, a spherical primitive would be a circle that grows and shrinks as frames progress.
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by cproctor 10y ago
Oops. I thought this might be an attempt at rapprochement with their janitorial staffs. Perhaps the wrong nomenclature for our new era.
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by cproctor 10y ago
Vue looks great; a good move away from jQuery's low-level imperative paradigm, and I would definitely recommend it to an intermediate student interesting in leveling up. However, having taught middle-school CS for two years, I disagree
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by cproctor 11y ago
So set up your own camera next to the state camera, and diff the results. There's your list of VIP plates.
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by cproctor 11y ago
How is this different from "casting out tens," or just checking the accuracy of the digit in the ones place?
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by cproctor 11y ago
I just had a look at the information Google has been keeping on me, and noticed that when I visited the visitor center for Zion National Park earlier this year, there was a photo of my car's license plate was associated with the event.
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When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice(nytimes.com)
45 points by cproctor 11y ago|78 comments
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by cproctor 11y ago
I agree that becoming a professional requires socialization and sustained practice. I intentionally left the scope of the question open, but am most interested in approaches that help move people from being novice users to being literate: a
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Ask HN: The most interesting current approaches to teaching programming?
4 points by cproctor 11y ago|8 comments
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by cproctor 12y ago
Turtle is also part of Python's standard library. Re-implementing geometric puzzles we already solved in Scratch works well as a transition to Python for my seventh graders.
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by cproctor 12y ago
I'm a middle-school CS teacher; the woodshop teacher and I have been collaborating on using a Shakeoko at our school. It works great! http://burks.girlsms.org/maker/?p=115
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by cproctor 12y ago
I like when I'm on a run thinking about adding something to my website, and then I get home to find that very feature, nicely implemented, posted on HN! (Also, as a former English teacher, I can't resist pointing out a typo: &quot
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by cproctor 12y ago
I remember playing with Logo 18 years ago too. My 7th grade students just had their second day of Python, after working with Scratch during 6th grade. Turtle is part of the Python standard library--makes for an easy transition. If you&#x27
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by cproctor 12y ago
A note on 3: It's not really a dichotomy between communication skills and content knowledge. Pedagogical content knowledge builds on content knowledge--it's about knowing the structure of knowledge--the paths different learners wi

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