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by cycomachead 4y ago
It sucks that Pamela's leaving Berkeley. We worked closely together for the past year. These thoughts are incredibly valid -- I also wrote something similar after two years, though didn't share it. Salary is a tough sticking point
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On Risking My 4.0 GPA to Fight Sexism in Class(medium.com)
1 points by cycomachead 5y ago|7 comments
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by cycomachead 5y ago
Hmm...I tend to agree...but why? I would assume his output wasn't 0, so the economics are hard to justify. A typical engineer earns many times their salary in revenue for the company. So, maybe this guys was low performing, but maybe t
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by cycomachead 5y ago
> If he wants to lash out at anything, I suggest lashing out at a system that requires us to work while going through such awful life circumstances. That man shouldn't have had to work. And yet, this man worked for a company who cou
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by cycomachead 5y ago
There's quite a difference between "I can't perform at my full capacity" and "Go home because you can't do any work". And no doubt, unpaid leave in the midst of costly medical bills (even with insurance co
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by cycomachead 6y ago
In the File menu inside Snap!, click on libraries and on that list there's an entire APL library that expands upon these ideas. I am no APL expert; this is something really designed more about pushing the limits than something we'
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by cycomachead 6y ago
Depends on what you're doing, but coding is probably the obstacle. There's about 4 of us working various amounts of part time. In the case of auto-save, there's a lot of unsettled design trade-offs, and other needs keep comin
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by cycomachead 6y ago
Pretty much. I think "just" is oversimplifying a bit of how powerful they can be, but yes all the reporter blocks are shape generic, and we're exploring whether other tools can be as well. Could we build a really intuitive ve
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by cycomachead 6y ago
All correct! That's pretty much it! Snap! is designed to allow students write code in the same way they might in Scratch, but then move them on to exploring CS concepts. It's also somewhat more extensible, including allowing peopl
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by cycomachead 6y ago
Trust me, I know. But even here we run into issues, such as projects over the local storage limit, and the fact that (well, until COVID...sigh), a non-trivial number of students were in computer labs that contained programs like deep freeze
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by cycomachead 6y ago
The idea is to be able to easily move someone from beginning features to more complex stuff. The APL functions are new, but in the past this meant story-based projects to using tools like lambdas, map, filter, etc. When done as part of a co
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by cycomachead 6y ago
Most students end up taking a course in another language. At UC Berkeley, they go from Snap! to Python, and it's typically something like VSCode or Sublime as the IDE.
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by cycomachead 6y ago
Autosave is not exactly trivial, but it's definitely on the list. I do agree it's something incredibly useful! (Doing it right also can incur some costs, and that's something we would need funding for...)
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by cycomachead 7y ago
The advanced features are there - like making API requests, Lambdas and real custom blocks/functions. Beyond, that you can write in JS to extend Snap! within itself.
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by cycomachead 7y ago
Is it really today (Oct 22)? Not that I care about the specific date, I'm just wondering if there's a particular story as to why this date. It'd be cool to hear if it exists. A lot of other stories mention "summer".
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by cycomachead 7y ago
People are not using 50 year old operating systems. It's not as if Linux or macOS today are the same as Unix even in the 90's! People are proud that certain ideas have persisted 50 years. People are proud because many things beyon
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by cycomachead 7y ago
I still love TextMate -- but I have to be honest, I switched to VSCode recently. The community around VSCode is hard to pass up, and thanks to documentation (and it being JSON), I've found it fairly easy to configure, and in a few ways
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by cycomachead 7y ago
Tim Bell is an amazing guy! He’s inspired many to do CS. :)
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by cycomachead 7y ago
The ones that a missing are old and may have been moved around. I’ll see if I can find them or updated versions. Was there a specific one you were interested in? (Ping me on Twitter or @gmail if I forget to reply here.)
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by cycomachead 7y ago
Can you reliably delete the server?
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by cycomachead 8y ago
I'm sure it bothered him, too. Keep in mind that the goals of university courses are not just to learn the material but to learn how to learn something. I know it bothers faculty members when they barely feel ahead, but at the same tim
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by cycomachead 8y ago
This does happen most of the time, and UM has quite a large TA group. He almost definitely had TAs and the majority of the learning is around discussion/recitation sections and practice. In this case, he also wasn't developing the
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by cycomachead 9y ago
I think it makes sense why people compete on experiences. Can you really differentiate how much you're learning between the top 50 (or even 300) schools? It really depends on personal motivation. And in terms of non-educational success
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by cycomachead 9y ago
Also, consider that the desire for greener pastures is a very top-down cultural thing in the US, that's not always true world wide (though, it increasingly seems that way.) By number of students, most higher ed institutions are communi
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by cycomachead 9y ago
Here we go again... ? Then again, this doesn't seem anywhere near as crazy as the IO.js days.
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by cycomachead 9y ago
Very weird -- earlier this year the FedEx guy delivered some photo mattes to the apartment across the street. The vendor wouldn't refund me because it showed as delivered, but Amazon told me (and refunded the $40) specifically under th
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by cycomachead 9y ago
Simpler than the iterative is hard to argue -- it's closer to a strict mathematical definition but the iterative version can also be setup very simply too. To say one is more powerful is really false. I think recursion is great, and fo
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by cycomachead 9y ago
p5 has also been around for a while, but even then the tech isn't the cool part. Processing was well thought out from a learnability standpoint, and p5 takes that and allows you to build some _very_ compelling lessons, modules and even
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by cycomachead 9y ago
Berkeley undergrands have a special talent for building pretty websites that are terribly underperformant. I say this with the utmost respect; I built a few of those as an undergrad too. :) (And yes, it's obviously not just us Berkeley
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Toxiproxy: TCP proxy to simulate conditions for chaos and resiliency testing(github.com)
2 points by cycomachead 9y ago|0 comments

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