danteembermage

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by danteembermage 15y ago
So sell me! Blackboard does a million things but I really only care about 1. posting syllabuses, links, and documents 2. making randomly generated auto-grading quizzes 3. auto-updating a gradebook. Does your software do these things better?
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I use Blackboard as professor a lot, and while pedagogically it can do amazing things technically it's poorly done and annoying. I think the author wrongly poo-poos the one-stop-shop feature of Blackboard. The fact that the annoying quiz ma
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I think a killer feature for this (or a competitor...) would be auto-turning pages using the ambient audio. "While I am playing piano and have no hands I have to deftly change the music, therefore I need another human " is a huge pain poi
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I decided to test you a little bit and search for a lyric from a Janis Joplin song Another Little Piece of my Heart, "you know you got it when it makes you feel good" Without quotes this does not produce the song. Maybe increase the weight
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Codecademy Techcrunched(techcrunch.com)
4 points by danteembermage 15y ago|0 comments
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Not back to 1996 they don't (the first year of online SEC filings) which for those of us interested in doing panel studies we'd love to have. You can purchase it for ~$20,000 for a small institution, I'm not sure what an individual license
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I was really excited that they'd figured out a way to cull balance sheet data out of the filings. Doesn't appear so though, "XYZ Corp filed their annual statement today, you can view it here "
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by danteembermage 15y ago
For public companies committed lines of credit are very common, probably more so than public bonds if you look at the universe of publicly traded firms. Why they get them is not entirely clear, liquidity insurance is the obvious answer but
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I'm Mormon (or more pedantically I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) so kbutler caught me. He's quoting from the Doctrine & Covenants (like the Pauline epistles in that they're letters written by someone cla
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by danteembermage 15y ago
My religion has taught me there was alien life since I was a child. I was also taught that all humans and all animal life will be resurrected. It's not too hard to extrapolate that intelligent alien species, should they exist, would as well
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by danteembermage 15y ago
This issue is generally described under the heading "effective capital gains tax rate" in the literature, which back when the rate was higher was between 3.4% and 6.6% (1960 to 1978). http://www.jstor.org/pss/2352820 for an abstract that
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Of course, but I think the averages of these are germane to this discussion e.g. I don't think Russia is the next outsourcing hub, but there are undoubtedly nice Russians and English speaking Russians who can't fit with other Russians in on
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Suppose I had invested $1 million in a private company 10 years ago. It is now worth much, much more, how much no one really knows. I go to a bank and mention I own 100,000 shares of XYZ corp. Could I have a loan please, collateralized with
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MIT researchers develop sun-free photovoltaics(web.mit.edu)
40 points by danteembermage 15y ago|20 comments
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Is it hopeless? What if we presuppose that business schools are going to try, what's the best they could do? I know I'm hijacking the thread here but I'm in the middle of struggling with this exact thing (teaching an entrepreneurship class
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by danteembermage 15y ago
If you were teaching an MBA course on entrepreneurship, what would you put in it? I ask because I'm teaching one right now and I need to do some serious lecture prep for Thursday. Over the semester I've assigned some the the essays like "ho
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Eat Your Vegetables and Don't Forget to Tweet(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by danteembermage 15y ago|0 comments
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by danteembermage 15y ago
I chuckled, and clearly I should have known better from the URL, but I did downvote you to try to keep things serious around here.
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by danteembermage 15y ago
Johnny Lee was working for Microsoft when he personally funded the $3000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers. I know we're all probably quite familiar with who he is at this point, but if you're not I'd suggest poking around his projects
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DIY telepresence robot (Johnny Lee project)(procrastineering.blogspot.com)
3 points by danteembermage 15y ago|0 comments
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by danteembermage 15y ago
To prove your point, you can buy or trade for one of each color property. Then announce "I refuse to grant any monopolies ever, it is highly unlikely this game will end in finite time" These kind of things are not possible in a modern, wel
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by danteembermage 15y ago
At this point I wonder if nickb would be willing to sell the newmogul trademark. Considering that all it would take is some marginal news.arc server maintenance and a "guess what? Newmogul is back up" and you'd have a viable web property go
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by danteembermage 16y ago
$300 plus $4000 per year in taxes, that's the real story here
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by danteembermage 16y ago
"Sticking with the same world, KFC managed to convince an entire nation that fried chicken is what Christmas is ‘really’ about :)" I had no idea this was true, fascinating. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb2dafc6-0ba4-11e0-a313-00144feabd...
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by danteembermage 16y ago
I think this glosses over an important point. Hiring or firing is expensive in opportunity cost (e.g. project delays, disruption to the work environment, morale) and so it makes sense to internalize that cost in a hiring decision. Suppose
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Tell HN: I just heard breakupnotifier pitched by a radio DJ in WI
9 points by danteembermage 16y ago|2 comments
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Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light(reddit.com)
431 points by danteembermage 16y ago|222 comments
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by danteembermage 16y ago
I put all my investment funds into a risk free account that pays just about 30% APR with no front end loads, no commissions, and I can make withdrawals whenever I want at no cost. There's a good chance you can to, it's called "paying down t
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by danteembermage 16y ago
I'm not exactly a programmer (I've written some really cool Matlab code and I make SAS do nifty things, but no real languages other than dabbling in java) and getting the environment set up is a big intimidator to trying a new language (i
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by danteembermage 16y ago
I hope Onlive succeeds (they really have some amazing technology) but I would really hate to have my fate tied to the fickle finger of the big content publishers. They've already had issues with EA (Mass Effect and Assasins Creed have been

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