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by jtheory 12y ago
Forcing password changes -- e.g., "you're locked out until you change your password" -- means that the student must select a new password right now, whatever time pressure they're under. Most people in a rush aren't
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by jtheory 12y ago
Exactly; I like it, personally. Blocking login until they've changed their password is too harsh, and it's counter-productive. A college student who needs to choose a new password now but is under time pressure is definitely not
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by jtheory 12y ago
If they didn't before, they can start storing it to implement this.
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by jtheory 12y ago
Agreed there's more to it than just hiring the diverse team, but that's a chunk of it. People work together, and project assignments aren't made to put friends together, but to group the skillsets needed and to help people do
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is what I did; I live in central France but work in the UK (fully remote; I fly up once or twice a year normally for social gatherings). I found the company where I'm not CTO via HN "who's hiring" in 2010. My collea
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by jtheory 12y ago
How is competency evaluated, though? This whole approach relies on testing of some kind that can reliably measure competency in a subject area that also needs to be well-defined. If we had that -- if the material that all students shoul
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by jtheory 12y ago
Thanks for mentioning that -- we're familiar with the international baccalaureate; my wife went to the United World College in New Mexico. It was completely different from her educational experience before that (not unstructured, but s
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by jtheory 12y ago
A dimebag would be $10 -- stretching what "dime" means (I've never heard any other context where it means $10 instead of 10 cents!), but it must have been catchy enough to stick....
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by jtheory 12y ago
I went through school always near the top, academically, but I wouldn't say I was well-served by the school system. My wife had much the same experience, though rather worse than mine; she very clearly remembers loving doing math with
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by jtheory 12y ago
The operation itself was two years ago, but then it's taken 2 years of physical therapy (and just healing time...) before it's become clear how successful it was. So there's no single moment when this becomes "newsworthy
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by jtheory 12y ago
It's easy to be confused about the time scale on this kind of work; it's hidden from public view until there's an appropriately newsworthy milestone. As you point out, this is not a "Eureka!" moment at all; it'
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by jtheory 12y ago
This makes sense; but it's also not quite what's under discussion. No one's asking for you to be no longer able to edit questions. If Quora went offline, archive.org by default would show the last-archived version of that pag
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by jtheory 12y ago
I do actually answer questions on Quora on occasion; I haven't paid much attention to the "historical record" issues in the past. But my quick thought here is that any time a company claims to be doing something detrimental t
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by jtheory 12y ago
Is there any way to get to that without entering the 4 numbers? I don't have my last cholesterol stats in front of me, but I'm still curious to see what suggestions it makes. It doesn't seem productive to hide away the advic
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is really my point. There are probably better sources of truth than "some people I hang out with sometimes". Those sources vary depending on the subject, but they probably won't be "someone I don't know, from
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by jtheory 12y ago
Sure; my point in that example was that his pitch (esp. including his chosen list of interests and potential questions) felt extremely narrow to me; I'm also a white American male and only 10 years older; but the world he seems to be i
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by jtheory 12y ago
His name has just vanished from my head... but there's a famous chef whose secret trick for finding the best restaurants in a city he's visiting is to locate the most active community discussing food online, and post a comment say
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by jtheory 12y ago
That was part of my point -- I personally don't have any real overlap with his life context (and I do have people who can discuss my flaws with me, with enough honesty that it's not always comfortable). But there are people who co
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by jtheory 12y ago
I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, fri
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by jtheory 12y ago
Presumably he'd update that bit of text as part of expanding.
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by jtheory 12y ago
Running is totally possible! Perhaps it just takes a bit of practice. It's involves a lot of awkward lurching.
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by jtheory 12y ago
I imagine the situation is slightly different for a quadruped gait than for a biped like us... but even walking like this looks profoundly weird if you see it in real life. If someone glared at me across a rowdy bar, then walked towards m
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by jtheory 12y ago
That was my assumption; but if you're going to name parts of your system after natural phenomena, you have to choose ones that make some sense, not just names out of a hat that are vaguely in the same domain. "Spout" makes se
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by jtheory 12y ago
I think I get the concept (and it's interesting); but I'm a bit baffled by the terminology: > That led me to the idea of "spouts" and "bolts" – a spout produces brand new streams, and a bolt takes in streams
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by jtheory 12y ago
Only one RFC... but that doesn't mean you can just reject all Excel-exported CSV as "invalid" and force those people to figure out some other solution. :(
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by jtheory 12y ago
They're mostly operating on streams, so at some point (based mostly on how GC is managing, I imagine) the speed will be constant per-row regardless of the record count.
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by jtheory 12y ago
Side note: CSV is boring and unsexy as formats go; but it's also dead easy for companies to provide and even automate even with minimal technical staff on hand; this is one of the reasons I'm working with it at the moment ("C
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by jtheory 12y ago
Taken with a grain of salt, of course, because the winner is the one running the competition. Worth noting: - All but the last-place finisher here are actually placed quite closely in performance, given that they're working on a 3 mill
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by jtheory 12y ago
It would be exciting to be wandering the streets at night, waiting for a distress call to come in. The moment the bat signal -- ahem, the Gaspard -- lights up, you sweep in and rescue the damsel in distress from her assailant (naturally he
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by jtheory 12y ago
There's a site I use when I'm in Malaysia visiting my in-laws that's worth checking out: Frambie.com -- they go a step further in that direction, and focus on printing & framing digital photos that you upload. So I can up

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