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by japhyr 12y ago
I teach high school math and science, and it's fun to meet these doubts head-on. Most students who carry these opinions opposing basic science are surprised to find that the ideas they've been opposing make perfect sense when you
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by japhyr 12y ago
I've been aware of the controversy around Cesare Maestri's claimed 1959 ascent of Cerro Torre for most of my life. Even as an amateur climber, this story has a dark feel to it - it's not fun thinking about people lying about
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by japhyr 12y ago
Thank you for doing that. I hope to climb the Chief some day, and I'll be happy not to top out in front of a gondola depot.
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by japhyr 12y ago
People often underestimate the bitterness that these experiences create in smart people. It's not a petty thing, either - it's life changing in many situations. We need smart people to take control of schools.
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by japhyr 12y ago
It's not grade inflation. We're a small alternative high school, and it's easier for us to do the right thing for students, even if it means going against existing bureaucracy. The smallest unit of credit in our traditional h
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by japhyr 12y ago
This notion that you only need to know as much math as you're going to teach is ridiculous. The more your students struggle in math, the deeper your understanding of the subject needs to be. It takes a fair bit of skill and understandi
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by japhyr 12y ago
What makes it so hard to find a math teacher in Quebec? I've traveled through Quebec a number of times, including a bicycle trip that went through Chibougamau - as a visitor, I love the province. I can understand that some remote areas
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by japhyr 12y ago
I had a conversation with a math teacher from another school not too long ago. Both of our schools require a minimum of two credits of math to graduate. My school allows students to spread this credit out developing a deeper understanding o
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by japhyr 12y ago
I teach high school, and a colleague of mine went to an education conference a couple weeks ago. She was sitting at a table with three elementary school teachers. They were talking about how to gauge student progress when the students had t
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by japhyr 12y ago
A gondola ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon would be like a gondola ride to the top of Everest. These projects are deeply frustrating because all the developers have to do is get them built once - they can essentially fail as many time
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by japhyr 12y ago
One thing I rarely see mentioned in these discussions is your proximity to an Apple store. Macbooks are great as long as they just work. But when they stop working, life sucks if you can't walk your machine into an Apple store. Most of
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by japhyr 12y ago
Do you mean $700/month for residential internet service?
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by japhyr 12y ago
I've always felt better when I pick out individuals in the audience, and imagine myself speaking to a series of individuals instead of a large audience. I like to pick out different people around the room throughout the presentation, s
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by japhyr 12y ago
I've been a middle school and high school teacher for 20 years. I've been teaching an intro programming class once a year for the last 5 years, and I've been paying attention to how CS ed is done in general throughout that ti
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by japhyr 12y ago
I don't get tired of my own voice, because much of the text is informational. One of my long-term goals as a technical writer is to include more of my voice in my technical writing. That's the kind of technical book I've enjo
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm almost finished writing my first book, an introductory programming book. I have kept all of the drafts I've printed out as I've gone through the revision process, and the stack of drafts is a couple feet tall now. It&#x27
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by japhyr 12y ago
There's an interesting image a little more than halfway down the page, where one of the flight crew is wearing a t-shirt showing a helicopter rescuing people from a plane crash. I can't read Russian, so I don't know what the
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by japhyr 12y ago
You might enjoy watching a few episodes of Emacs Rocks! The guy who does them is pretty cool to watch as far as knowing your tools well. Even if you're a vim user, you'll probably appreciate how well he uses emacs. http:/&
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm not sure that a hundred good developers would complete a project like this. I'd rather take a small team who could dig deeply into the project, and commit full time to it. One or more of those people would have to be pretty po
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by japhyr 12y ago
I recognize the difficulties of attempting a project like this, and the serious ramifications of any bugs you introduce into the project. There are life and death ramifications here as well - contributing to a wrongful imprisonment, or acci
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by japhyr 12y ago
This kind of story always makes me think I'll never really be out of work. I like to think that given this level of funding, I could do a much better job in a situation like this than the firm that was hired did. I've been program
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Alaska government spent $28M on database project before it was scrapped(adn.com)
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm a teacher by career. If I had the opportunity today, I'd go do an internship in SV for the experience. But when I was in your shoes I spent 13 months living on a bicycle. I was 26 when I did that, and it's kept me grounde
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by japhyr 12y ago
Keep in mind that it only takes one big fixed price job to sink your reputation or to totally eat up the profits of many otherwise successful jobs. It took me a really long time to get good at this. Do you mean sink your reputation becaus
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by japhyr 12y ago
There's a fairly simple annotation technique we teach all of our high school students. - Underline big ideas you come across. - Circle important words or phrases. - Write any questions you have in the margins, as you read. The goal is
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by japhyr 12y ago
The truth is that it still seems like a grey area. That same article mentions that we should not claim that we treat anxiety if we want to stay unregulated. I think that we're on the fence here. In the future, we will go after FDA cle
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by japhyr 12y ago
You might want to modify your HN profile to include your email or some other contact information.
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by japhyr 12y ago
Does an app like this need to be HIPAA-compliant? I would guess that many people would consider building an app like this without thinking too much about HIPAA. "We're not doctors, we're just building an app that will help pe
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by japhyr 12y ago
Abc251 It's significantly different from the stock orange, but it complements the logo well. I only care about it because it lets me know whether I'm logged in or not.
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by japhyr 12y ago
I teach high school math and science, and I teach an intro programming class once a year. I've tried to connect students with professional programmers, and I have never found any in town. I'm just starting to do some professional

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