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by glesica 12y ago
"...making the case for human intervention in teaching, at least for those students who are not 100% self-motivated and self-assured (that is, those students who actually need to be educated, rather than left to educate themselves). Tw
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I am kind of a fanboy for this concept and I'm super excited that Jose was willing to contribute a write-up! Elixir is an incredibly exciting language in my opinion, mixing some of the things that attracted me to Python years ago with
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by glesica 12y ago
I agree that the pay shouldn't be the same in terms of annual compensation, but I see no reason why hourly compensation shouldn't be the same, once fixed costs are accounted for (such as health insurance).
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by glesica 12y ago
...and believe me, it's not difficult... This is why I feel the productivity argument is really very weak. There are many people who seem to be quite productive even working 40-50 hours per week. I think a much, much better argument
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by glesica 12y ago
How did you get the part-time gig in the first place?
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by glesica 12y ago
If the staff thought they would have to work through those 12 weeks of vacation anyway... This is something I wonder about. I have found that, for whatever reason, social norms maybe, managers tend to view working part-time as somehow &qu
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by glesica 12y ago
As of a few months ago, when I last looked into it, there really isn't a good (fast) image processing (re-sizing, etc.) library.
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by glesica 12y ago
The fact that there is a great deal of statusmongering says nothing about the relative importance of the "real work" and "statusmongering" in the eyes of people involved. So no, it isn't a lazy inference, the origin
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by glesica 12y ago
The psychological research community doesn't care about their work actually working or proving something valuable nearly as much as their care about maintaining their status. I was nodding my head and prepared to take you seriously u
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by glesica 12y ago
His/her response seems to indicate otherwise.
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by glesica 12y ago
That was exactly my point. Your attitude is that people should stop labeling themselves, they should stop identifying as something. So should we all stop identifying as software developers? That's just a label. Labels aren't evil,
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by glesica 12y ago
This is a really great project that could really make going from zero to "productive" with a new language so much quicker and more fun. I can't wait for Rust and Elixir to happen :)
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by glesica 12y ago
So the gay people who have been straight-up murdered for their sexual preferences should do what? Pretend to be straight? I agree that this isn't news, but your little rant about labeling people is pretty offensive and ignorant.
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by glesica 12y ago
early alpha preview uniting all the bad ideas of Windows Vista. This is exactly how I describe KDE 4. It was in development just as Vista was being demoed and it shows. The entire design of the system appears to have been heavily influe
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by glesica 12y ago
Munich has similar bike lanes and it seems to work out pretty well, though I only spent a few days there.
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by glesica 12y ago
But isn't that just a re-hash of the age-old, and fairly weak, argument against all taxes? We all pay for things we don't use, and we all use things that other people pay for. The point of taxes is to make large, long-term investm
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by glesica 12y ago
Or just tax the people who move into the state... state populations don't generally change that much, with a few notable exceptions.
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by glesica 12y ago
As far as I know, most state universities have real police departments. The officers are effectively state police officers. I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but it is at least 20 or so years, if not quite a bit more. Safet
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by glesica 12y ago
I wonder how this relates to IBM of old which had a business model that amounted to "Sell at high price, high tie-in revenue." It didn't work out so well for them (at least for their PC business), turned out that people didn&
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by glesica 12y ago
"...social deprivation and alienation." I think this part is important, though. The poor in our society are alienated and often cut-off from the larger society and culture. If unemployment was a socially accepted norm I do not t
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by glesica 12y ago
..."job of last resort" program... But why? Why is it so necessary that everyone spend their days working? Why not just allow the structurally unemployed to pursue whatever it is that they want to do? I'm not saying we have
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by glesica 12y ago
jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. Thank you! When I clicked on the link I was fully expecting it to be written in Node and I was going to cry.
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by glesica 12y ago
I completely agree with you that rape and assault in prisons is a terrible problem. I still think prison is a better solution, but I definitely agree that throwing anyone in the prisons we have currently (at least in the US) is probably i
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by glesica 12y ago
The problem is that you have to know how often they get caught in order to decide the amount. For example, if they only get caught 1/4 of the time, the fine needs to be greater than four times the amount stolen to make a difference (fo
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by glesica 12y ago
This is exactly the right attitude in my opinion. Wherever there is money to be made, be it public or private sector, thieves will show up with big smiles and sharp suits on. Consequences are the only thing they understand, and prison sente
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by glesica 12y ago
...finding a technologist (or whatever) for such a company is a bit harder than finding a jQuery or Rails guy :) This is LITERALLY the ESSENCE of supply and demand! The person is rare, therefore s/he commands a rare salary. End of st
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by glesica 12y ago
I think there was already some idea of how to make the changes they wanted to make, so it made sense to fork since the maintainer wouldn't integrate the changes.
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by glesica 12y ago
I see this a lot from small- and medium-sized business owners I interact with from time to time. They want CS graduates who can walk in the door and design and implement an entire system using a very specific set of (often closed-source, ve
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by glesica 12y ago
The research and development was clearly about the design and actuation of the legs... OK, but then is it really fair for them to publicize how fast it can run? I mean, I guess if the challenge is just to be able to move the legs fast eno
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by glesica 12y ago
If you try to help a homeless person, then you must also end all homelessness or accept that you're just a naive failure, apparently. Not at all. But when you (to some extent) and others (to a much, much greater extent) hold up a pro

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