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by gatlin 15y ago
No, no, this is just a subject about which I am very enthusiastic and just wanted it explicitly written somewhere that a good candidate solution to the education problem is in fact already here. Many places on the internet I find that peopl
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by gatlin 15y ago
I will find citations and put them in my original post. As for schools which operate this way now, the New Tech Network ( http://www.newtechnetwork.org/ ) of schools operate this way. I can speak most specifically for Manor New Tech HS in M
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by gatlin 15y ago
We are already working on that in the education community - project based learning. It has its detractors but the fundamental tenets are: 1) learning is the product of the work of learners, 2) students learn by doing. Science classrooms tau
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by gatlin 15y ago
My information might be a bit stale so this is as much a question as a statement, but I believe that Google Talk does not quite follow the Jingle XEP. They claim to be working very hard on bringing Gmail Chat in line with the spec, which I
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by gatlin 15y ago
Quinoa is also a complete non-meat protein source.
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by gatlin 16y ago
ZaTelnet. The terrible name seems to keep it from ever being popular.
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by gatlin 16y ago
Yeah, cooperatives can be implemented on top of whatever legal distinction you choose; Texas happens to have a "cooperative association" status that operates as a sub-set of non-profit and makes a lot of the decisions for you (as in, you ar
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by gatlin 16y ago
What's your business? Probationary period sounds reasonable. Yeah, consensus is something I'm toying with. I'm writing a CEO into the bylaws who, in spirit, should be the vision guy; not sure how powerful to make him or how influential. But
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by gatlin 16y ago
I'm working on starting a small worker co-operative. The advantages are normally considered for a large group (say, to increase buying power for interested consumers) but in the case of a lean startup, the law simplifies these questions. Af
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by gatlin 16y ago
fta: "How do you handle exceptions to recurring meetings?" If the user says "No meeting this Thursday," don't show the meeting on Thursday? Did I miss something? /cocky youngster, question stands
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by gatlin 16y ago
Agreed. Hence my transfer ;) But I do respect what TAMU is attempting.
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by gatlin 16y ago
> I definitely think this is worth trying. I love computer science, but I think it is a fact that much (most?) of computer science is not very useful for most programmers. Take this with a grain of salt because I do not have a successfu
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by gatlin 16y ago
I have attended both UT Austin and Texas A&M, who both proudly and decidedly adhere to opposing views. UT places CS under the Natural Sciences, and indeed I have spent the lion's share of my 3 years here studying algorithms, discrete ma