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by glesica 14y ago
Exactly. This. <arbitrary Internet jargon indicating agreement>. This article is the best-articulated explanation of why programming should be a core part of the college, and even K-12 curriculum I have ever seen. I just can't agree
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by glesica 14y ago
I didn't say those are the only people who are weeded out, just that, in general, people who don't have those qualities are less likely to get into "top-tier" schools. Admissions at these schools actually work a little bit like hiring at
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by glesica 14y ago
I think you're looking at it backward in some sense. A "top-tier" university doesn't teach any skills that couldn't be learned at most other universities (especially at the undergraduate level). However, the characteristics of an average
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by glesica 14y ago
I see your point, but I think you've made a couple assumptions that aren't necessarily accurate. First, higher education needn't be solely one or the other. There have also been some important points brought up elsewhere in the comments abo
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by glesica 14y ago
I think that's an excellent and important point. Certainly there is some sample bias going on: if you're qualified for college in the first place you are probably at a traditional college. However, I think my original point remains relevant
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by glesica 14y ago
Agreed. While job-training is certainly a significant component of the value of education today, it isn't even close to being the most important one. Most of us live in countries with representative governments (those who don't probably wou
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by glesica 14y ago
Yeah, I thought about that, and that could be the case (in which case I would have different, but less serious, concerns).
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by glesica 14y ago
This is just absurd. Non-accredited, branded schools will provide better education for less money? Really? I assume he's referring to the growing for-profit college industry. Yet for-profit colleges are actually the biggest culprits driving
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by glesica 14y ago
My point really has nothing to do with the ruling being correct or incorrect, though. My point is that highly unethical behavior is almost always corrupt by the definition of corruption you gave because there is almost never a reason other
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by glesica 14y ago
OK, but why would a judge do such a thing out of the blue, with absolutely no motivation? You're assuming that an otherwise competent and objective judge would wake up one day, walk into court, and just randomly decide to do something high
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by glesica 14y ago
> But taking the case would have been highly unethical. I really hope there will be an investigation into this. Yes, doing something "highly unethical" IS corruption. If you are a public official and you do one or more "highly unethic
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by glesica 14y ago
I'm not really sure where it came from, but the Slashdot summary states that a lot of these things were never even un-boxed. If true, that's an incredible waste and far-outweighs any convenience or stability benefits gained by using homogen
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by glesica 14y ago
The president of the Federation in Star Trek VI said it best: "Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing." Other than the initial level of indenting, which is ba
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by glesica 14y ago
Doing deals with OEMs actually seems like a better strategy today than it was even just a few years ago when Canonical did their original deal with Dell. For one thing, Ubuntu has (for better or worse) made significant progress toward the
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by glesica 15y ago
I see the point that it is difficult to infringe a copyright purely by accident. I may have over- and misstated the problem as it exists at the moment. I am still concerned that the Oracle case will push us toward copyright applying to an i
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by glesica 15y ago
I think this is the bigger risk. Copyrights are even more numerous than patents and are potentially much more difficult to avoid infringing. You could infringe an API in a totally different industry and never know it, and there are so man
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by glesica 15y ago
It's not that different from the default look and feel of DuckDuckGo. Just sayin'...
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by glesica 15y ago
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but supposedly MS gets $5 for every Android HTC sells... http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-andr... Site here says that in 2010 HTC was selling Androids at a rate of around 18
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by glesica 15y ago
The latest version of Xubuntu (12.04) is just stellar IMO. It's turned me into an XFCE user. I've been a DE refugee since Unity and Gnome 3 came along. Glad to see some of these new features being added, particularly the tiling support!
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by glesica 15y ago
Groklaw certainly does have a slant and, in this case, the slant is toward Google. However, reading two partisan sources, slanted in different directions definitely doesn't make any sense if what you're after is the "Truth". You know this,
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by glesica 15y ago
I've actually done this as well, should have mentioned that. Also, the Django docs can be easily compiled into a (very large) ebook in epub format. I put a copy on my Nook. Comes in handy every now and then.
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by glesica 15y ago
This reminds me of the jQuery docs situation. Every month or so somebody comes up with an alternative way to access them that's flashy and uses <div> frames with low contrast text and lots of shadows and gradients. I play with the s
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by glesica 15y ago
Yes! I've been using Xubuntu 12.04 for a few weeks now (beta) and it has converted me back from Debian/Mint. If you don't love Unity, give Xubuntu 12.04 a try before you mess around trying to hack a different DE on Ubuntu. In the past, Xubu
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by glesica 15y ago
Agreed, but the "techie" crowd tend to be the early adopters for products like this and help drive others to use them. It's not totally crazy of Google not to support Linux out of the gate (for the reasons you and others noted) but it is a
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by glesica 15y ago
Anyone see any word on a Linux client? "PC and Mac" is all I can find, but "PC" usually translates to "Windows"...
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by glesica 15y ago
I agree that this sort of broad-strokes signalling is probably highly ineffective. However, given the difficulty of hiring, employers are likely to seize upon anything that can ease the process even slightly. There have been interesting ide
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by glesica 15y ago
I see your point, but I suspect there's more to it. For example, here are some college majors along with their growth relative to the overall college population. So, for example, 107 means the field has seen 107% of the growth that the over
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by glesica 15y ago
> It seems to me that a large number of jobs that list a degree as a requirement don't gain much by requiring a degree, except a smaller stack of resumes to dig through. Yes, the stack of resumes is smaller. However, I think the key her
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by glesica 15y ago
.04 gets released in April (4th month) and .10 gets released in October (10th month) * is then the last two digits of the year of release So the version lets you know the year and month of release. Edit: Ubuntu is on a 6 month regular rel
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by glesica 15y ago
Maybe we differ in our definitions of "feature-rich"... """ Microsoft has long said that WOA will not include an x86 emulator, so legacy applications would never run directly on the platform, but there was always the possibility that existi

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