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by ht_th 13y ago
In Europe, money isn't everything, especially for youngsters choosing to study for an academic degree. The idea of "following your dreams" or studying what you like is still big. Because studying is often subsidized, people c
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by ht_th 13y ago
Yes, MOOCs solve an educational infrastructural problem at best: getting "education" to more people. The problem, however, is that education is a societal problem/solution that has almost nothing to do with providing the best
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by ht_th 13y ago
I agree. I often saw these cleaning bots as decadency or superfluous gadgets, but since I've gotten one I have changed my opinion of them. They clean good, consistently, and on schedule. My living room -- the place my bot lives in -- i
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by ht_th 13y ago
I often find that most groups on a professional meeting don't stand too close together and if you step in a bit, those around you will move to incorporate you physically in their circle and, as a result, in their conversation even you
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by ht_th 13y ago
It is hacker news, isn't it?
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by ht_th 13y ago
From YaST's own language ...
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by ht_th 13y ago
I am a fervent proponent for modern constructionistic learning environments, but affecting change in the current system is almost impossible. Some teachers are enthusiastic and willing to spend their own time to develop and implement these
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by ht_th 13y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Compare with literacy. Not only is there a largish part of the population that hasn't enough reading proficiency'to be called literate, but even a large part of the literate do have trouble reading
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by ht_th 13y ago
> about removing quotes from strings, I tought about it, and I think as long as some other display property is different (to differentiate the number 4 from the string "4") The problem is that for most people the technical and
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by ht_th 13y ago
At first sight, this statement seems odd. For sure, writing a text is more difficult than reading it, and programming is writing a text. But a different kind of text. A program is written to communicate ideas with a computer first, and with
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by ht_th 13y ago
Not really. There aren't regular updates to IE adding new functionality from the living HTML5 standard (and other standards). Further, the latest IE cannot be installed on some older, yet still popular, versions of Windows. These two
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by ht_th 13y ago
Unfortunately your car analogy does not compute. A car is a device to do one thing and one thing only: getting you from A to B. A computer is a universal tool in the sense that it can almost be any tool. Being able to harness that power i
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by ht_th 13y ago
In our highly sophisticated information society, not knowing how to interpret/represent/manipulate/generate information is a problem, especially for the higher educated. If you're not able to use general information proc
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by ht_th 13y ago
> Is SO mostly compensation for crappy docs and badly constructed APIs? Yes. And no. There are a lot of interesting libraries and tools out there I have access to and can use. In the 90s and early 00s I bought a compiler and maybe some l
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by ht_th 13y ago
I agree with you, actually, but I fear that the current commercial situation in many a programmer shop or IT department does not allow for well-educated and well-experienced programmers for they are too expensive and difficult to find. In
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by ht_th 13y ago
I've had my computer science engineering education at an institution that taught programming the "Dijkstra way": designing and proving correct programs by hand, with pen and paper. Still, if you're asking me to solve som
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by ht_th 13y ago
Maybe we need some kind of distributed knowledge network for things like wikipedia, stackoverflow, and what not?
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by ht_th 13y ago
Outside the cities people still cycle. It is no uncommon for highschool students in the country to cycle over 10 km to and from school (for some up to 20 or 30 km), do the same to meet friends after school, to go clubbing, to go to parties,
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by ht_th 13y ago
Because there isn't much risk, really. It is very, very uncommon for an experienced Dutch cyclist to have a serious one-sided accident. Children learning, sick elderly and tourists on the other hand do have accidents more often and for
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by ht_th 13y ago
Those crank-powered flashlights make a lot of noise and induce cramps in the hand used to crank it.
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by ht_th 13y ago
It is? I've used the Tex Live distribution for years now and I don't believe I've ever wanted for a package that wasn't installed (or in the distribution if you're short on space). Installation is a breeze as well,
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by ht_th 13y ago
They are service companies. If they believe in a service that takes care of their customers' / clients' privacy, they should act accordingly, yes. They could pack up and leave. Make a statement. Be true to their customers. A
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by ht_th 13y ago
Why? Using them doesn't hurt as they fallback to the text input type. But semantically the code makes more sense as it is more specific, and for those browsers that don't support them, you could fall back on using some javascript
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by ht_th 13y ago
Sure, we now care about that. But we've been breeding animals for over ten thousand years. During that process, what did we lose? What of that can we get back with scientific supported breeding? Or to state it differently, was the prehist
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by ht_th 13y ago
The thesis of the article was to contrast our wide-spread belief in the health benefits of fruits and vegetables with the actual (significant) lower health benefits measured by some (significant) measure. It does not compare health benefit
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by ht_th 13y ago
They're solving an educational problem -- that is, how to deliver instruction to a large audience --, but not an learning problem. Does it support / improve deep learning? How are social-cultural factors of learning taken care of? What exac
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by ht_th 13y ago
I've thought about it as well. It is extremely hard to innovate successfully commercially inside the educational system. On the other hand, targeting the bottom of the system, the individual teachers, parents, students, and the like, does w
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by ht_th 13y ago
To add to claudius's reply to your post, in the Netherlands we like to differentiate students around age 12 into levels: about 60 percent go to the vocational level, 25 percent to the general level, and about 15 percent to the academic leve
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by ht_th 14y ago
Or was it collaboration in defense of their self-interest? After WWII Europe was in ruin, the USA and USSR had taken over as the world powers, and the sentiment "never again" clearly had not proven to strong enough in the past. Making the s
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by ht_th 14y ago
You could roll your own, I suppose. Start building an index and feed it search results on a regular basis. I shouldn't be too much of a problem to hack something together with SQLite3, CRON, and your favorite scripting language. Sounds like

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