kilroy_jones

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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
It feels like you missed the point of his post or you're just responding in bad faith.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Still here. Always loved this tidbit of history. As a kid who was obsessed with WWII, I would hunt for them in old photos and videos.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
> Taiwan has 20 million people. Mainland china has 1.4 billion people. I believe the "self-determination" part is already settled. What does population have to do with self determination? > Nope. Let them settle it. We shoul
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Yes and no. This is changing as people become more prosperous and can afford old age homes. Multi-generational homes are still common, but less so than they were a decade or two decades ago. The primary issue these days with grandparents ta
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
How are cryptocurrencies any worse or more shady than banks, investment firms or any other business involved in finance?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I had started working on something similar to this, but without the Google Drive component. I wanted something where I could right click and "snag" a file, link or document and have it saved to a server I controlled. It's not
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
As someone who tried react + redux and then recently moved to svelte because the way things were done just made sense, how does mobx compare?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
The introductory video were linked to the curriculum the department was following and so I put things in the same order to match what was being done. When I normally teach it I skip to the hello world portions first and then later come back
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Below is a 51 video tutorial series on Python that I made for my students about 4-5 years ago. It was a flipped classroom thing I did and I took it really slow in discussing the concepts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1aX
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I teach the IB and IGCSE curricula and have used repl.it quite a bit in the last few years. What sort of materials are you looking for? Coverage of Python, Java, and C++ at the middle/high school level or smaller one-off projects with
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Wechat is in no way a competitor to Messenger or WhatsApp.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Have you tried questioning this? Do you really enjoy those things to the exclusion of other activities? I've found that while I think I enjoy them, they leave me feeling unsatisfied when I've stopped. Yet the things I enjoy which
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I don't think of a leather bound guy being pulled out of a trunk when people say those names.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Hard to determine if a certain practice is harmless or not.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
That statement is taken way out of context. The full quote is below. >The best teachers don’t just keep teaching. Instead, they use their pedagogy as protest: They disrupt teaching norms that harm vulnerable students. In my years in the
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I think they meant a business that is destined to die. Could be wrong though.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Assuming you're in America, most areas are not dense enough to accommodate mixed use zoning unless they start building up. The other half is getting priced out like your grandma.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
R2R, or Roach 2 Roach would be more apt. Jokes aside, this tech later applied to other animals, say that pesky 2 legged kind could make for a rather interesting future.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
The idea of watching ads in order to get an education seems like the start of some dystopia nightmare. Seeing kids in school buses emblazoned with McDonalds ads is bad enough. Can you imagine wanting to check your answers to the work you ju
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
One can be critical of China and the US at the same time. Difference being is only in one of those two countries can you open to do both. I find these 'but the US' responses to be particularly unhelpful as they attempt to frame th
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
China has only recently been able to reverse or halt the brain drain it was having for decades. As far as talent coming from the US, you will need to provide actual data to back that up, unless you are referring to Chinese students that hav
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Most of those people in HK who are fine with it already have deep connections with the Mainland and want to maintain those. They are a small fraction of the population. It's also fairly short-sighted and selfish thinking in my mind to
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Your view on this and your username are linked I assume?
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I'm going to agree this a solution, but I think we should probably tick through the first thousand or two more reasonable ones before we get to mass murder.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Might not be a lot of people around to report the news when that happens.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
It's also obvious that some people have had great experiences with kids, yet someone posts it anyways, because this is a discussion forum where we share ideas, question and provide couterpoints. When someone posts a sentimental story a
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
How would you suggest they broach the point that not every family turns out well? That some end up with kids watching from the car while their mom fights dad's drunken mistress in the Safeway parking lot while dad himself watches on, s
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
Agreed, but no one seems to know how we decouple the economy from growth without hurting or angering a lot of people. Maybe we just tear off that bandaid quickly.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
I'd disagree. As someone who has been in teaching nearly two decades there is a large contingent of capable teachers who are doing it right. Some do it within the system their school or district has set up and some in spite of it.
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by kilroy_jones 6y ago
A teacher's job, if they're doing it right, is not to provide continual feedback to 20+ kids, but to create a space which focuses them on learning a particular skill or achieving a particular goal. Kids learn best when working wit

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