irrationaljared

8 ms·

31.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I agree. The students at Sudbury Valley and the families are not representative. That said, there is no application process outside of making sure you want to be there and your family is on board. They are not filtering out lower-performing
32.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
That would be more mind-blowing, I agree, but that's an enormously high bar that no one is achieving. Sudbury Valley is a private school, but it is much less expensive ($8k vs $25k+) than many other private schools and does not attract
33.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
The point of the post was not to claim that Sudbury Valley is for everyone or is better than other educational environments necessarily. It was more to observe that I'm surprised that people are not more curious about such a different
34.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I appreciate everything you've said. Obviously not everyone will have their mind blown by these observations if they're already well informed on much of this. My point was more toward the general public and the idea that such a ra
35.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
There's a lot of literature out there from the founders of the school. Generally speaking they do engage in a lot of self-directed learning, but I think if you walked around the school you would not say that they were spending their ti
36.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Generally speaking they seem to do similar activities to what I do on the weekends, with my free time. I might read a book, play a video game, learn something new, visit with friends, etc. That roughly describes what I've seen from the
37.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I probably shouldn't have included that stat. The point was not to say that Sudbury Valley was sending 100% of their grads to MIT or something, but rather to note that I think people would predict far lower numbers of college-going gra
38.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Sudbury Valley does not self-select students. It is a private school, but if you can afford the relatively low tuition ($9k a year) and want to go there you can. There is no selection process other than making sure the family is on board wi
39.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I haven't yet seen any studies showing specific comparisons, but they seem to do well, enjoy college, and graduate. Again the point is not that Sudbury Valley does significantly better at preparing students for college/jobs but th
40.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I mentioned in the blog post that it is an apples to oranges comparison for a lot of reasons. The point is that clearly the complete lack of curriculum is not placing these students at any significant disadvantage. That alone I think it a m
41.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
The stats on other schools in MA with a similar socioeconomic average are around 70% - 90% going on to college: http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?measure=32 Again the point is not to show that Sudbury Vall
42.
How Does This Not Blow Your Mind?(jaredcosulich.wordpress.com)
66 points by irrationaljared 13y ago|89 comments
43.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Ha yes, I was too lazy to put in 2013 and then change it in a month :)
44.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Yes, that's true. It's not particularly secure. I don't think many people are going to try and gain brute force to a random photo album, especially considering 80% are blank with people just trying out the site..
45.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Good to know. Out of curiosity (and excuse my naivety if this should be obvious), but why is https so important to you in this situation?
46.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. All of the example photos are my own, but I can try to make it look a little less stock-photoish. Good point about the privacy terms. I have examples from my other websites that I'll throw up there.
47.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Thank you for that feedback. I'll play around with some different ways of showing the collaboration option. I was just making some changes to the site to fix a bug and introduced another bug :) It should be fixed now.
48.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Thank you for reporting this. It was an oversight. It should be fixed now.
49.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I was able to fix this. You should be able to view the photos via the link now, but if anyone has trouble with it please let me know.
50.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
The original photos are processed for more efficient storage, so I believe that all EXIF data is stripped out, but I'll have to check to make sure.
51.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Claiming an album simply adds the album to your "My Account" page for easy access. It would be very hard to claim an album that wasn't yours without knowing the url which is randomly generated so it's very difficult to g
52.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I can see how that might be confusing. I'll have to give that some thought. You don't really get much through registration right now other than a simple way to keep track of the photo albums you've created...
53.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
The cost of storage is very low, so I'm hoping that between some reasonable advertising, pro accounts, and printing services the hosting bill can be covered even with a lot of free accounts. DropBox has done this successfully, so I thi
54.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Fair enough. Feature added. There's now a link next to the "Download Photo" button called "View Original" when you click to view the larger photos. Update Unfortunately on Chrome this link doesn't work be
55.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I don't know much about bittorrent sync. How does it work?
56.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure that I care if you register. It might be beneficial, but I'm more concerned about you finding it useful and using it / sharing it with other people. If a lot of people use it anonymously I think it would
57.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
I actually debated this quite a bit and went back and forth on it. I eventually decided that I wanted to keep it as simple as possible and figured that people might have a bunch of people add photos and then they could switch it to view-onl
58.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Good to know. That wouldn't be too hard to add. Out of curiosity why do you want to view the full-resolution photos vs. the ones that are scaled to fit your screen?
59.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
imgur is more about sharing a single photo or creating a meme. This is more about creating and sharing an album of photos. The features of SimpleNeat include things like reordering photos, custom urls for albums, easy downloading, and, even
60.
by irrationaljared 13y ago
Yes, that is the biggest feature people have asked for. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it. Quick question. Would it be ok if you clicked a link and then it emailed you a bit later when the download was ready?

More ›