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by ht_th 14y ago
Not given our current way of life, indeed. Then again, our current way of life is based on the premise that things take time, effort, money, transport, and so on to get into our homes. But why would I need clothes, extra chairs, tableware,
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by ht_th 14y ago
Cable? Power line? (Dedicated) fiber? Wireless WAN? The neighbor's wifi router?
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by ht_th 14y ago
True. On the other hand, it allows the professional/expert to have a good idea if it might work. And, if so, if it is worth testing out or not. In my opinion the value of this kind of research and/or informed opinion pieces is local in scop
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by ht_th 14y ago
That's a positivist perspective on research and knowledge. While your perspective on validity might be fitting for quantitative research, for an exploratory expose and kinds of qualitative research some look for other measures of validity a
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by ht_th 14y ago
If you're planning to get big in the Netherlands, don't forget iDeal ( http://www.ideal.nl/?s=&lang=eng-GB ).
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by ht_th 14y ago
There are always only three cases: 0, 1, and many
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by ht_th 14y ago
Nor around here when you're leaving primary school. So I assume it is a kind of hyperbole used by your parent. At the same time, however, not having any scientific literacy at all seems to be accepted or even glorifies in Western popular cu
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by ht_th 14y ago
I agree. There is no doubt that Khan Academy is revolutionizing education, but it revolutionizes most and above all teaching, not learning. It enables students and teachers alike to get access to a wealth of instructional materials at any t
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by ht_th 14y ago
Just ask the jerk to stop asking questions and making remarks. You're trying to teach a class and that involves input and interaction of all students, not just the one. As a teacher you are responsible for the learning climate in the room a
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by ht_th 15y ago
Kind of like storing all your IM conversations. Yes, you can continue where you left off and you can prepare for the conversation better, but what about spontaneity? What will be the effect of knowing people's name only through your augment
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by ht_th 15y ago
On the other hand, exactly getting surprised by people is one of the charming characteristics of meeting new people. The future you're envisioning scares me: we will move around in our own safe social cocoons without any need to interact wi
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by ht_th 15y ago
But all the things shown in the video already are available in a top-of-the-line smartphone. The only difference is that you don't need to pull it out of your pocket. That's just a small improvement if you're into that kind of thing. What I
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by ht_th 15y ago
It probably is part of the USA-ian culture to present and sell your self or your work. It works great to present your work succinctly. I like listening to poster presentations given by USA-ians. Or very introductory talks about upcoming res
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by ht_th 15y ago
I still remember the first "programs" I wrote in qbasic. I spend days writing a simple tic-tac-toe game using if-statments only. Or computer art by drawing shapes, lines, dots and what not on the screen using different loops. Then I discove
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by ht_th 15y ago
I don't know. I've taught computer science in high school in the late 2000s and there still were students who dabbled in code even though they had access to the most wonderful GUIs and games. When I was young and the first computer entered
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by ht_th 15y ago
It is not that simple to equate a (perceived) need to escape from women to a mental illness. Female groups do behave differently than male groups in that they assert dominance and rank by psychological means whereas in male groups this happ
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by ht_th 15y ago
Just curious, wouldn't a place that needs parking meters already be on the grid? Assuming we use parking meters to earn back the costs of building the parking lot or to stimulate the use of other forms of transportation than a car in that a
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by ht_th 15y ago
Negative feedback is easily turned into positive feedback and the other way around. Instead of losing points or lives when you fail, you could reward thoughtful actions. For example, when the number of steps to a solution is closer to the
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by ht_th 15y ago
But in the end it probably does both. I often find that when developing some system we end up with a less than optimal result due to all kinds of constraints. Sometimes there just isn't enough money to finish the project the way I wanted, o
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by ht_th 15y ago
I do. There are a lot of computer users out there that need to create an occasional spreadsheet or more complex text document. For these users, buying a product like MS Office is overkill, both in features and in price. And as a bonus, Libr
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by ht_th 15y ago
Yes, but there are also a lot of things not under your control. You might be able to pull ahead quickly of the easy paycheck people, but then you're surrounded by other people with proper drive and dedication. To get ahead of them you need
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by ht_th 15y ago
You mean teaching email users correct etiquette to reply in context and cutting all irrelevant parts of the original message? Like, for example, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 (1995)? I have to agree that emailing has gotten worse sin
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by ht_th 15y ago
Yes, this seems to be a good case of the Law of the handicap of a head start( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_s... ), as we call it in Dutch. By not having invested in technology over the last five years, he is no
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by ht_th 15y ago
> Can you give an example of a "more complex programming structure" where this would be detrimental to understanding? It is difficult to imagine what kind of knowledge novice learners will construct while using this tool. I could imagin
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by ht_th 15y ago
> But I still don't see how something like this could be anything but a net positive. The student will construct their own knowledge of programming by some learning process. This tool has an effect on that process, as has every tool. It
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by ht_th 15y ago
Although I like these kind of tools, I doubt that they're useful to learn basic programming as they need a lot of prior knowledge to be present to already understand the visualization. For example, what is a stack or heap to a novice progra
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by ht_th 15y ago
Similar to yours :-) I don't have any family, friends, acquaintances, neighbors, or even connections to those people in jail or branded as terrorist. At the same time I do know that there are a lot of people in jail. Similarly, I don't know
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by ht_th 15y ago
It could be also a form of social segregation you're experiencing. For example, people charged with terrorism acts nowadays are found mainly in extremist religious circles and extremist right wing anti-government circles. (In the 1960s/1970