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by jmcqk6 14y ago
There is something very interesting to me about the rise of these courses. Everyone I've heard is expecting the jobs of the future to require higher order thinking skills: creativity, analytics, etc. Another way to put it would be thing t
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I actually think if they said something like you suggest, it would be better. At least there would be agreement in principle. They would still be assholes, but they would be admitting it. The way th
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
What about a pricing model similar to what [ncunch]( http://www.ncrunch.net/ ) is doing?
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
It's possible that the professor matched the name to his roster, though a student could still be using a fellow classmates' name.
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Reading this makes me wonder about the possibility of purely electric f1 vehicles, and what such a move might mean for electric cars in general.
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The thing about finding complex artificial materials is the the likely explanation would be "it came come the rover." While finding complex materials would be earth shattering, the threshold of accepting a martian source for a reading like
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
I haven't used it yet, but windows 8 has a 'reset windows' option that will basically reset everything to a fresh install of windows 8 without having to do a reinstall.
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
Thank you so much for pointing this out. For people who are so focused on "data-driven education" they always seem to ignore this. The fact of the matter is that collectively they perform no better than public schools, while undermining t
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
I thought it was possible to do all of this without using visual studio - or any other IDE - with the possible exception of the WinRT app submission process. I know you're wrong about sqlite and linq as I've used them on both .net and mon
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It will create something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
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I think it would go without saying on HN, but with all the focus on the negative at Reddit lately, the positive gets lost. Just like there is some horrible stuff on reddit, there is some really amazing places. /r/askscience comes to mind
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The biggest thing I can think of is how it defaults to throwing an exception when attempting to return JSON for a GET request. You could disable this easily enough, but I never understood the rationale behind the decision, and it was a mom
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
C# really needs something similar to this. How many times have I implemented INotifyProgertyChanged and INotifyPropertyChanging. They're the exact same implementation every time. Now I've gone on to a base notify propery changed class th
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"Best Practices" are not always well defined or applicable. In some cases there are conflicts among different practices. Even worse, there are cases where one person believes something is a best practice and another believes it to be a ba
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
I'm not sure how it figured it out in my case. I turned on the service and a few days later, I noticed it would start alerting me my commute times in the morning and evening. I was looking up something on google maps and it had marked my
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
>None are or claim to be based on libertarian principles. I think part of the argument is that if libertarianism is so good / efficient / other desirable criteria, why don't societies naturally evolve into those societies? Again, I don'
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
Libertarians do overlap quite a bit with anarcho-capatilism and randism. You might not define libertarianism that way, but many do. The best you might say is something like, 'libertarianism, as espoused by [X], hold that a government sh
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
Somalia is, or at least was, a land without a government. If libertarians or randians are correct, it should be a land flowing with milk and honey. Of course, this is not the case. At least, that is how the argument goes. I'm a former li
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Microsoft seeks patent on smacking phone into silence(geekwire.com)
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I have a minor pet peeve about using turnitin.com. Teachers need to understand how should be used. Too many professors will just run your paper through the site, conduct no other checks at all, and assume that if turnitin says your plagia
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Tell that to the companies that have patented genetic sequences.
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Science and scholarship as a whole are creative processes, just like invention is. >Invention on the other hand is a concept rooted in taking a knowledge base and using it to create something new. Replace "invention" with "science" and
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
in 2010, the US Department of Education budget was $47 billion [1]. That's between 1-2% of the total budget. The problem with education in the US is not cost, and even if it was, the solution is not 'get rid of a few percent of teachers."
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
Meant to reply to this, but didn't work, so copying and pasting: In the debate about khan academy, there's an important fact that is continuously missed, it's not about effective instruction vs. ineffective instruction; it's about less effe
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
I'm in a startup that uses C# and ruby, ASP.NET MVC, and PostgreSQL. All software we right has to pass tests on windows and linux (we'll add os x when we get an os x computer). I know we're not conventional, but we feel like these are the
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
Yeah, the author is apparently unaware that C# is one of the few truly multi-platform languages, which runs on Android, iPhone, OS X, Linux, windows of course, and whatever other platform the mono people have since added. I don't even get t
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
I don't think most games can be published in the windows 8 app store. They have very strict guidelines about the types of apps that will be listed. Specifically, only metro-style, full screen apps that use a specific subset of the .NET fr
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
It's important to note that "Desktop Apps" in the windows 8 world are only going to be links from the app store. The developer / company will need to provide their own billing, hosting, deploying, updates, etc. Also, only companies will b
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by jmcqk6 14y ago
I've searched for a way that I can make this happen, but I'm not seeing it anywhere. Is it only Microsoft software that takes advantage of this? I suppose that getting into the search results is very useful. EDIT: found a link http://blo
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One serious problem with the Windows 8 Store. It will only be for Metro Style apps, which require the complete stack to be on the the "Metro" .net stack. I have an app that I was looking to port to Windows 8. It's written in .NET, and use

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