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by jmcqk6 15y ago
My first reaction to this is that it is bad. Unlike other fields, you shouldn't be punished for making a mistake in Science. Science is driven off of mistakes and being wrong, and it's the opposite of everything else. I know the article
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
The author gives the background of _why, including apparently outing his actual identity and current city of residence. The author also discusses his own experiences trying to learn programming and specifically ruby. I found this part inter
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
I agree that the Goldman response is funny, but that is not enough to dismiss the claims in the OP. Several times now there have been internal documents and emails released that verify not only that there are people in GS that really are no
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
I've suspected this for a while as well. I think many of the features we've seen released in tf2 has grown directly out of the development of DOTA2. Valve has practically admitted as much in the past by saying tf2 is a place where they ex
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
I've checked out several of the leading LMS's out there, and have yet to find one that I actually like. You sound confident that your LMS is quite good. I was wondering if you would link it up so that I may check it out?
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
It does exist: The Redditor: http://www.reddit.com/r/theredditor I think they're digital only at the moment, though.
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>But come on, you can't say that most .NET software is not closed source. Which is probably why I said nothing even close to that. I can only really talk about the web related tech. Huge parts of ASP.NET are open source. Then you have
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
I'm trying to understand your last few sentences. Microsoft has open sourced huge amounts of code in the last four years or so. The entire MVC framework is open source, for example. Nuget (another open source project, but built with the
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
I signed up for a pinterest account and didn't even realize that I didn't have to use facebook. So I signed in with facebook, thinking that it was just going to basically use it as a login portal, and maybe to import interests. Instead it
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
There are many examples in the open source world. In music, why not bieber, rebecca black, and soulja boy? Would DHH count? Does Amanda Hocking count? ( http://www.npr.org/2012/01/08/144804084/a-self-published-aut... ) That's just after a f
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
The problem here is that it's called "gamification." This view is an impoverished view of gaming that leaves out it's most important component: gaming is play. Gamification of education would be wonderful. The thing is, it wouldn't consist
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
One thing that you can always depend on the HN crowd to do when considering Khan Academy is to only consider how it works for them personally. The HN crowd is made up of intelligent people who tend to learn things on their own. We're autod
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
>If we know something of your interests (based on G+ and/or search), isn't suggesting more relevant content to you on Youtube (as a purely hypothetical example) a good thing? Generally speaking, yes, but there is the danger of creating
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
A lot of virus protection software seems like the electronic equivalent of [protection racket]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket ). They throw up these scary pop-ups that basically say "this is a nice computer you have isn't i
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
>Social responsibility for a business is to provide goods to the public through voluntary exchange while adhering to the non-aggression principle. Wouldn't it also be a social responsibility for a business to insure that they protect wh
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
I think you might be right. The most valuable thing for me from the book was the explanation of Godel's theorem, and I really enjoyed all the language play. After that, I grew really uncomfortable with the comparisons to "this could be h
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
whether or not they have patents, they do have spectrum, which is valuable by itself from my understanding.
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
Direct Instruction is fundamentally opposed to differentiated instruction because it only allows for one way of learning. With differentiated instruction, the teacher recognizes that each student learns differently and that there are many
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
Project Follow Through contained several major problems, but it doesn't take a researcher to recognize the biggest problems of Direct Instruction. Scripted curriculum might sound good to some people, but it has two major flaws: first, it de
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
That would be an interesting tactic. Could a company like google very publically donate a large sum of money to a PAC and get the results they want? I would imagine if they do it publicly, it could possibly restart the debate on campaign
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
I believe Hitchens point on this is taken directly from the bible. There is no biblical basis for your description of heaven. If you read Revelations, though, heaven is described exactly the way Hitchens described it. To put it another wa
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
Mr. Chaffetz is kicking ass pointing out that they have not taken into account any of the technical issues. "It's like performing surgery without a doctor." "Bring in the nerds."
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
Something that pro-members of this panel seems to miss is that it requires the creation of a mechanism to enforce the provisions of this bill, and that mechanism can be abused far beyond the scope of this particular bill.
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
At the beginning of the session, the chairman stated that he expects the meeting to continue into tomorrow.
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
My understanding was that her reading could have been avoided if a member who opposed the bill removed their objection. Basically, this was a way to stall progress on the bill and nothing more. No one was meant to really listen, I think.
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
He is/was. However, Paul Allen was a partner when Rutan was going after (and won) the X-prize. So really, they're just getting back together to work on something new.
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
Did you feel the least bit ridiculous writing that? I know I felt a little ridiculous just reading that. Perhaps I just have a really hard time understanding how any kind of rounded corners or edges could possibly qualify for a patent u
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
Either disable javascript on that page, or open up firebug and re-enable the textbox.
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
>Is there really a university IT department out there that's going to prevent students and professors from using an offsite, external website? Yep. They'll quote policy and if that doesn't work pull out the FERPA card. But it isn't in
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by jmcqk6 15y ago
Oh wow, that's awesome. Now if they can just combine that with a Pixel Qi screen, it would be just about perfect. Thanks for the heads up!

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