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by jdreaver 13y ago
I totally disagree. What this gives students is a choice . > 1) Until now, the majority of University-affiliated MOOCs have been free. This just changed. You can take a free MOOC or a paid one. > 2) I find it immensely frustrating
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by jdreaver 13y ago
> The market approach that is being espoused, and favoured by some here, reduces everything to a dollar amount. Enter the subjective theory of value [1]. Market theories do not necessarily try to reduce everything to a dollar amount. Hu
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I say we let the market decide. People like me who much prefer MOOCs to brick-and-mortar universities will gladly stop paying tuition, and people who value traditional universities can support them. Surely, the number of traditional univers
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by jdreaver 13y ago
I have had a handful of great discussions with professors, but if I had to choose between that and the awesome discussions I have had on MOOC forums, I would choose the MOOC route any day. Of course, that is simply my personal experience.
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by jdreaver 13y ago
Certainly, the world's economy would have collapsed when cars came and the horse and buggy creators lost their jobs, the printing press forced manual copiers out of business, automatic telephone switches made operators lose their job, etc.
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by jdreaver 14y ago
If you like what you read, make sure to read "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," by the authors of this paper. You can even get video lectures online! [1] [1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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by jdreaver 14y ago
So we waste billions of dollars per year to "force terrorists to up their game." My main issue with the TSA, besides the fact they violate my rights, is they are a non-solution to a non-issue. The fact is, TSA screening is a joke, and TSA s
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by jdreaver 14y ago
They want a wage of $10.10 per hour? I bet a Costco employee starts around $10.20 per hour.
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by jdreaver 14y ago
Quick octal explanation: In an octal system, each digit ranges from 0-7 (each digit in a binary system is either 0 or 1, or each digit in base 10 ranges from 0-9). Therefore, when you get to 8, you can't write 8; you have to use another dig
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You are a pretty bad judge of talent.(thetalentcode.com)
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by jdreaver 14y ago
He is saying that people should pay for their actions when they move to a high-risk area. Unfortunately, they cannot properly evaluate the risk because insurance companies cannot create due to competition with the "free" bailouts provided b
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by jdreaver 14y ago
People shouldn't have to evaluate the risk involved in living anywhere , that is the job of actuators. Their evaluation is presented to consumers through the price system. If the government didn't bail out homeowners who didn't have insura
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by jdreaver 14y ago
> They're such high risk, that no actuary will quote them a reasonable price. That makes sense. There is such a high chance of the insurer losing out on flood insurance money, that no one would want to buy flood insurance. > Private
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Udacity launches Intro to Parallel Programming. Sponsored by Nvidia and AWS(blog.udacity.com)
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by jdreaver 14y ago
I reread the article with that in mind, and it makes much more sense, to the point that I am inclined to agree with much of what you said now. I think you should highlight that difference closer to the beginning of the article. That is a ni
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by jdreaver 14y ago
I still don't understand how the author jumped from a cute comparison of Fibonacci algorithms to saying programmers shouldn't learn more math. Math isn't just arithmetic and numbers. He acts as if the recursive solution isn't also math. Dev
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by jdreaver 14y ago
I don't understand why we keep us in the word "democratize" when it comes to increasing individual freedom with technology. Democracy is the tyranny of the majority; we aren't voting to see who gets to produce or consume what. It's a pet pe
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by jdreaver 14y ago
It's a mental device for rationalizing the present state of the world so that you never have to act. Well, except for the fact that an Austrian economist would change almost everything about how most Western governments handle economic po
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by jdreaver 14y ago
I hope we get someone profit focused, because if they repeatedly violate our rights, then we (or the airlines) can do something about it and fire them, therefore removing their profit. In the current system, the incompetent TSA suckles on t
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by jdreaver 14y ago
I don't follow your logic at all. The assertion that some colleges altered their admissions policies to prevent Jews from getting in implies "Nobody cares if you're well rounded"? All sports not being equal makes none of them possess any va
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by jdreaver 14y ago
I too have been doing this with Zed Shaw's work. My biggest piece of advice is this: make sure you read the code and try to understand it before you type it in. When you are given char *names[] = {"Bob", "Dole", "Bananas"}; don't j
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by jdreaver 14y ago
Imagine this was actually a thing. That is, if asteroids were so common for some reason that we needed a space organization to tell us if the next year will come.