dgabriel

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by dgabriel 14y ago
I thought the "10k" rule had been discredited. http://allaboutwork.org/2012/11/21/malcolm-gladwells-10000-h...
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by dgabriel 14y ago
Agile has been around for many, many years. I think the Agile Manifesto is a teenager by now. There are a lot of people well into their careers who have "always worked" the so-called Agile way.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
This might be true for you, but I always prefer a transcript. I hate watching videos, unless it's strictly for entertainment and requires little real attention.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I try to factor in a decent amount of yak shaving time when I make estimates. Hitting deadlines is all well and good, but there's nothing like a good yak shave.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
The idea that bullies are never academically talented is a false dichotomy. The idea that bullies only attack "smart," kids is ludicrous. Thus, ability-based classes would not end bullying in any way.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
Indeed. The first AJAX development I did in the early/mid-2000s was IE-only because the other browsers didn't have the correct support.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
HBUs accept people of all races. And, certainly, no one would argue that Harvard or Yale were NOT historically white, unless they were blind to history.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
But why wouldn't you just read the talk description and title to decide whether or not to go? This reaction: "I won't go because I think that some women were specifically recruited!" doesn't make any sense.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
It seems like the data in the "Teaching math to the Talented," article refutes that assumption. "In short, the incapacity of American schools to bring students up to the highest level of accomplishment in mathematics is much more deepseated
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by dgabriel 14y ago
You're correct. But it doesn't work very well for the moderate to very advanced learners, and this leads to fewer kids reaching their capabilities. I don't even call these children "gifted" any more, because school administrators seem to
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by dgabriel 14y ago
Here's my theory on why so few US children score as advanced level in math: I have a fifth grader in public school now, and as far as I can tell, schools are nearly incapable of identifying advanced learners, and most teachers don't have th
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I hope you have the empathy to understand how terrible this idea is. Seriously, <3
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by dgabriel 14y ago
This is a really terrible idea. It's not so much "edgy," as heartbreaking. Instead of mocking them, perhaps you can contact any of these Cambridge organizations and do something less dehumanizing that might actually be helpful: http://ww
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I believe the author is a woman.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
In the Boston area, Boston Organics will deliver a tasty assortment of organic fruits weekly. We get this at my office, and it goes fast. http://www.bostonorganics.com/ I'm sure there are equivalents in other cities.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
It's more likely that a 45 year old exec would be less interested in a 23 year old woman visiting him regularly in his office, in case it appears to be inappropriate. One of the difficulties for young women in IT/Dev is finding a mentor,
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by dgabriel 14y ago
Agreed! I've worked at mostly start-ups, and I have yet to work at a start-up that didn't require us all to be DevOps.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
Reader & youtube are down, too. (Reader throws a 401, http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E401.html )
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by dgabriel 14y ago
It's really not, though most of the research seems to be on refugee populations: http://voices.yahoo.com/researchers-examine-ptsd-depression-...
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by dgabriel 14y ago
For anyone who's interested, coursera is offering a Scala course taught by Odersky this fall. It starts the 18th of September. https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I have almost no tweets, but I use it for other things.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
This phenomenon hits me all the time because I'm an early adopter. There are many dgabriels in the world, and all of them think my gmail adress is theirs. I have gotten emails meant for theater directors, therapists (with very confidentia
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by dgabriel 14y ago
They look different, but much of the content is an exact duplicate of the sprout video site.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
Ah yes, the old ROT26 encryption.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I thought it was H&Less Stress.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I find this tax-site-as-dating-opportunity pretty hilarious. Please tell me Mr. Bose is real, because I want him to be real!
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I don't think OLark is quite dead. They seem to be doing fine.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
I'm working on it. I sent the info to another interested party, but I may know others. I can send it to the Start-up Weekend group, too. How many teams shy?
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by dgabriel 14y ago
If there's a Boston area dinner, I'm interested.
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by dgabriel 14y ago
How do you get scam from this paragraph? "With F1, we have built a novel hybrid system that combines the scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding, and cost beneﬁts so far available only in “NoSQL” systems with the usability, famil

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