jeffreymcmanus

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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
"the point is that on the whole it works" How do you know that?
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
It's great that you're contrasting Khan to ALEKS. I'm not drinking the Khan kool-aid; my kid just started using ALEKS in the last month and I agree it's terrific. It's really puzzled me why Khan is getting all this attention when ALEKS has
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Because in this case the burger king was located in the lower floor of a two-story residential building and caused air pollution and litter in the neighborhood.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
UoP already does quite a bit of online instruction. It's unlikely there's much going on here that they aren't doing already.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
UoP's bad rep comes not because they're a degree mill but because they have a high dropout rate (which is sort of the opposite problem -- if they were a degree mill their dropout rate would be low). Their problem is really that they spent m
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I'm on the side of the small business owner here, but for some perspective on why restaurant businesses have to go though hell to get set up in SF, search Yelp for "9th avenue burger king". The short version is that people in the neighborho
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
The writer says that the US university system is awesomer than most people believe and that the awesomeness of our university system is unmeasurable. Then in the next paragraph he says we host "more than half of the world's top 100 universi
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
no, dumb people just use guessing, actual astrology, etc. smart people use "pattern matching" because it makes bigotry (which is a form of guessing) seem smart.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
"Pattern matching" is like astrology for smart people.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Not so. In fact the opposite is true; as scientists reach consensus about facts, it enables science to progress. Just because facts exist does not mean the process of scientific discovery ceases.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
You're confusing the notion of "settled science" with "the end of knowledge". The changes in our understanding of gravitation that have occurred in our generation do not make it advisable for you to walk off the edge of a building. That's w
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Not at all. Gravity is settled science. "Fire is hot" is settled science. Etc., etc.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
It's not "dogma" to say that gravity exists or that fire is hot. Just because science is a constant process of investigation and discovery, it doesn't mean that we can never arrive at any conclusions or take action based on what we know to
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Sure it questions it. As a helpful thought experiment, try this: look at how many phrases are placed in quotation marks in this piece. Each time the writer encloses a phrase like "global warming" or "pollutant" in question marks, he's tryin
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
it is a common tactic of climate change deniers to line up some number of scientists to convey the sense that there is some question about climate change. but this isn't how science works; it's not the case that because one or 10 or 100 sci
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
"Plenty of us" where plenty equals...how many? Apple was crowned as the biggest PC maker in the world this week.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I'm sure this is going to be unpopular, but sorry, when it comes to corporate success, values don't mean shit. The HBS case study on Google won't even mention "don't be evil" except maybe as an example of how amateurs shouldn't be permitted
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Not with one class and no accreditation, he won't. UOP is the largest private educator in the US with more than 400,000 paid students. Setting aside the fact that a single online class is nothing close to a "University", he's got a long way
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Their web site also thinks it's still 2011.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
jQuery Mobile adds a lot of other useful stuff -- primarily the ability to create an iPhone-style UI from HTML markup. Unfortunately as other posters have mentioned, it's pretty slow.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
What you call "holding a student by the hand" I call "teaching." It's not legitimate to assume that some subject should only be reserved for an elite group just because it is difficult to teach and learn; the failure in this case is in a la
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
"discretion" isn't actually called for in the statute. The only real "discretion" that should come into play here is the due process imposed by a court (which also unfortunately is not called for in the statute).
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I remember 2011, wasn't that the year when don't ask don't tell got repealed?
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I think that the number of people for whom the extra $10 is an issue will be small, particularly early on.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
There are lots of professionally produced albums that are utter crap, just like there are lots of professionally produced books that are utter crap. To think that an intermediary is necessary to create a long-form work is demonstrably false
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Thanks for putting this together, it looks great. I should mention that the word "shit" in the title of this will make it challenging for me to share this with many professional colleagues.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Johannes Gutenberg would beg to differ. A publisher is not a requirement for a book any more than a record company is a requirement for a song.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Because the activities involved in learning stuff and creating stuff are divergent -- even conflicting at times.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
As it happens, setting out to learn an app right away is typically not a great way to learn how to code for beginners. It's too easy to get stuck on the implementation details of your application-development objective ("why won't my bloggin
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Watch out, this guy is about to write a letter.

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