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by hdctambien 10y ago
> I have yet to see a woman studying a STEM subject who is very skilled at it and made such complaint. Seriously, you should actually talk to some of these women about their experiences.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
> So you tolerate that a complete sex shall be punished for former sins This is not a zero-sum game. Creating a new opportunity for girls does not remove an existing opportunity for a boy. > But at least to me it seems that mostly boy
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by hdctambien 10y ago
I see it as more of a temporary compensation for earlier gender based biases. In a world where boys and girls are given the same opportunities at (even) younger ages, you wouldn't need something like this. As it stands right now, it is
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by hdctambien 10y ago
> Why ... are large companies such as Google deliberately targeting specific groups? Large companies are judged by the diversity of their employees. They want to hire more women. In order to hire more women, there needs to be more qualif
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by hdctambien 10y ago
I had a roommate from Amsterdam and he said pot is seen as something kids do. When you grow up and get a job, you stop doing it.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
Teachers don't work 1/4 of the year like football players only work 3 hours a week for 16 weeks. There's a lot that has to happen (work) when the students aren't in school so that teaching can happen.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
Of those that voted. I think fixxer is saying that there are alot of people that don't vote (about half of the voting population) because they are an X in a Y state so they don't think their vote will change that. But if the elect
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by hdctambien 10y ago
Money is speech
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by hdctambien 10y ago
I used a little over 12000k Wh/h over the last 12 months in a 4bed with 2 people in Texas. I also have 2 cats and 2 dogs, so I don't turn the AC down too much during the day. date-elec-solar 10/15-567-503 11/15-329-312 1
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by hdctambien 10y ago
You could say all the same things about AOL and AOL Keywords 18 years ago...
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by hdctambien 10y ago
Being able to write code that does something in the first place is the most important. Having to learn a VCS at the same time you are learning the difference between a parameter and an argument will cause more harm than good for a novice.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
I'd wager that most of the students you went to school with didn't self teach themselves programming before they went to University and probably didn't have a Computer Science class in high school. It is difficult to understa
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by hdctambien 10y ago
When you are teaching students how to code everything they do causes mystery behavior to them.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
If you could make the phone smaller from shrinking components, don't. Instead keep it the same size and fill the extra space with a bigger battery. Or, if you could remove battery because of lowered power consumption of components
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by hdctambien 10y ago
But did they get an interview? A Cover Letter / CV / "Inside Source" isn't (usually) going to get you the job. It's just going to get your foot in the door.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
Source: I'm a teacher in Texas. Here is the payscale for my district: https://docs.google.com/a/roundrockisd.org/file/d/0B13hERGxq... Each district determines its own payscale. That's no differ
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by hdctambien 10y ago
There is no teacher union in Texas. Teachers in Texas are all paid the same based on years of service.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
You could also be fired because your boss wants to hire his nephew. You could also be fired because you would be better at your boss' job than he is and he wants to get rid of you before his boss notices. You could also be fired becaus
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by hdctambien 10y ago
When teacher's don't have a union the administration can add uncompensated hours to their work week, assign them uncompensated duties, assign them extra class loads (teach two classes at the same time) and fire the best teachers b
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by hdctambien 10y ago
State law in Texas now, all (Texas) public universities must accept a 3 for some sort of credit.
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by hdctambien 10y ago
I'm not impressed when my students can add two numbers together. I want to know if they understand the math behind the algorithm. You like "the old way" because that is how you learned it. But when push comes to shove, I bet
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by hdctambien 10y ago
Math isn't the only class that gives homework. Should Spanish class-time be spent memorizing vocabulary and conjugations, or practicing communicating in the language? Should History class-time be spent reading from the book so you know
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by hdctambien 10y ago
It points to homework not being effective in elementary school
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by hdctambien 11y ago
My understanding is that the Department of Education was never servicing your load, they contract that out from the beginning. If your load gets transferred. It happens because one of their contractors "goes away" and all the loan
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by hdctambien 11y ago
> he thing is, there's so much more to computer science and even software than just programming. Many "CS" instructors don't even understand that! Data structures, algorithms, discrete mathematics, algebra, the list g
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by hdctambien 11y ago
I teach AP Computer Science, and I feel for you. The biggest issue with computer science education is that "studies have shown" teaching people with no computer science background how to teach Computer Science leads to better rete
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by hdctambien 11y ago
> Of course, the opposite is true. Your time is the most precious, and in fact the only, resource that you have. You should guard it jealously, and only spend it on worthwhile things. What are school-aged people spending their precious t
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by hdctambien 11y ago
At my school students have four 1.5 hour classes a day. Juniors and Seniors can have 1 of those periods be an "off period" which they can use as a study hall or they can just leave campus. Plus lunch and 8 minutes between classes.
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by hdctambien 11y ago
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonig
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by hdctambien 11y ago
> teach some math to whoever's interested But in public school you have to teach math to everyone . Any they aren't all interested.

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