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by jhardcastle 11y ago
Which is why we specifically target cursive handwriting skills. We're actually doubling-down with a newly revamped cursive curriculum, with the goal to graduate elementary students who can "write beautiful cursive" per the o
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
We permit any kind of laptop so long as it has a "modern" browser. I've got a few kids running Ubuntu or some other form of Linux on their PC laptops. We don't discriminate if they want to use something more complex; t
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
That's relatively new. We haven't had to provision iPads yet this year. This is the first year in several I haven't bought any (yet). Given Apple's track record (they obviously hate schools, they do everything they ca
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
We are a private school, but 25% of our population is here on scholarship. Those families who cannot afford one are provided a computer by the school (and often books, supplies, uniforms, and even money to go on the "optional" tr
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
Our school (K-12, east coast, I'm IT director) has purchased hundreds of both devices in the past 4 years. We started with 3:1 iPads in the first year, distributed evenly throughout the school. We very quickly realized that the iPad
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
> The main engineer, Saito and his team at Cocoa Motors plan to launch the WalkCar this autumn and the expected price is somewhere around 800 bucks.
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
We built something similar to this a few years ago for our campus (we are a school). Hired an illustrator to do a watercolor of the campus on large tiles (maybe 8" by 11") and then scanned them in at high resolution and created a
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
Not OP, but I would argue that mathematicians and physics folks deserve great tools too.
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
Thank you for clarifying here. I wasn't immediately sure what the use-case would be for this. You might want to consider adding something like this (rationale, use-case, explanation) to the README.
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
From OP's post above: > She wanted a simple scheduling service, with a panic button — a way for her to let others know if she was running late. My reaction was yours: it's a way to call for help if you're being kidnapped o
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
This is sort of the conclusion I've come to in the last few weeks as I think about and research in preparation for my next startup. I learned to code with C / Perl in the late 90's, moved to scripted/interpreted "w
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
Is it not possible that students need both? In the same way that students were offered home-ec and shop in previous generations, to learn the real-world applications of their "cerebral" subjects, are we not teaching programming to
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
More details on Cnet - http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/asus-chromebit/ Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi 802.11AC, USB 2.0 for accessories, 2GB of RAM and 16GB SSD
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
Site appears to be down, Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RxMTeUF...
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
With a technology used in production in a lot of places, does responsible disclosure apply here? Did the author (OP?) notify Docker and/or the Linux kernel team before distributing this for public consumption?
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
But they only compared it against job listings on their own association website. This seems like incredibly lazy statistical research. They didn't look hard for a number, but instead accepted the first, easiest number they could gene
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
Another commenter upthread[0] said that was his project, same name and same idea. > I actually wrote exactly the same thing years ago (2007), even had the same name :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855060
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
You are right. I was unjustly unfair, and my information is outdated. As a longtime user of the site, I suppose old biases die hard. Thanks for all you've done to improve things over there.
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
The video/gif on the article shows both men and women entering and exiting. There is only one LED. There is only one website. The diagram only shows three stalls. I venture to guess that this bathroom is already unisex.
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
Reddit for real places rather than links? Upvotes and downvotes, comments (with upvotes and downvotes). A search function (that actually works) laid over Google Maps rather than textual links? Interesting.
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
Most of the enterprise applications that do inventory management (Spiceworks, Altiris, etc.) have clients that run on your network that can poll the hardware for detailed specifics. They track the logged-on user, the serial number, the BIO
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by jhardcastle 12y ago
Feel no pity whatsoever for the sysadmins. Feel pity for the users, who are unwittingly using a vulnerable service.
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
I think the assertion that you have to simulate the whole thing is somewhat self-obvious, and I'm not physicist, but I'll try. Take the "window" of the Earth. Without simulating the rest of the solar system, there is no
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
So are we now seeing the confirmation of the anti-Star Trek Curse[1]? Windows 9 will be OK, 10 will be terrible, 11 will be OK, and so on... Microsoft's new leadership needs to start thinking about resigning itself to being the stable
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
The web server is configured to use something like mod_rewrite to pass everything after index.php as a query string parameter to index.php. Many sites use this (though most don't do it so nakedly) to make pretty URLs that search engin
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
A better title would have be, "Is Ruby Dying? Getting The Data." As others have pointed out, the data suggests no, it is not.
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
Reverse now. You have plenty of proof. There's no need to take a bath on this.
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
Good for Dart, good for web developers, browser manufacturers, and users. Everyone benefits from choice. Will IE implement a Dart VM in their browser? Perhaps not, but perhaps so. Maybe Firefox will. Opera will probably get a VM for fre
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
It is frightening to watch, but the math seems to be somewhat straighforward. http://vimeo.com/37751380
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by jhardcastle 13y ago
Square has had a system called Wallet for several years where if you enter a store using Square, and it detects your phone in the vicinity, you can "pay by name." You walk up to the register, say "I'm John Smith,"

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