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by ktsmith 16y ago
I'm not entirely sure how they would avoid some of those words though. They are basically providing a way for every blogger to become an affiliate marketer without having to join the networks directly and they offer their own affiliate prog
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by ktsmith 16y ago
You should get a strop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_strop You aren't actually sharpening the blades, just honing them. This is essentially the same process you perform on a honing steel for your kitchen knives. The leather is used
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by ktsmith 16y ago
Having a masters degree "may" not improve student performance. Unless of course you are teaching math or science at the secondary level and have a degree in those subjects in which case it "does" improve student performance. Without having
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by ktsmith 16y ago
Team teaching is still around. My wife, for example, team taught for two years. The school she has been at for the last five years has had at least two teams each year typically at the second and third grade level. She was at an older schoo
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by ktsmith 16y ago
I can't speak to anything but my own experience. Having helped on a few ecommerce sites for very small merchants, the amount of fraudulent purchases that came through was staggering. One of those companies has been open for about six months
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by ktsmith 16y ago
The price of a single ticket is probably relatively small and so they may be protecting themselves from chargebacks. It is extremely common for those with stolen credit cards to test them using small value purchases. If you can find a site
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by ktsmith 16y ago
That's exactly what happened in Nevada during the housing bubble. You could sell a shack in CA for a huge amount of money and buy a McMansion on an acre for next to nothing in NV. As that trend continued you could see a distinct uptick in t
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by ktsmith 16y ago
In schools on the watch list in Nevada where the state has stepped in teachers are no longer really allowed to teach. In 4th grade students receive grades in Reading, Writing, Math, Art, Social Studies, Physical Education and a few other ca
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by ktsmith 16y ago
You don't need cheaters to reach a point where the expectations are so high they are unattainable. If you read the growth measures listed on the government education sites you'll see that states have proposed plans with ridiculous claims su
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by ktsmith 16y ago
The financial incentive to cheat seems to be a new issue and is certainly not even a valid issue at many schools. Nevada doesn't pay teachers bonuses. Teachers at Title I G schools will be eligible for bonuses in 2010-2011 but that is part
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by ktsmith 16y ago
I'll second this. My wife is also a teacher and every time I hear people talk about how little teachers work I want to scream. I don't know a single teacher that puts in less than 50 hours per week. In many schools teachers don't have any p
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by ktsmith 16y ago
Since you feel it was so harmful I've removed it.
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by ktsmith 16y ago
I certainly wasn't trying to debate the value of mt_rand or it's implementation of the Mersenne Twister. I was simply trying to point out this is an extremely old issue, and that the problem specified in the article (a visible problem with
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by ktsmith 16y ago
My complaint had more to do with the fact that the article contains no date information than the fact it was resubmitted. Since it contains no date information someone that is seeing it for the first time might think this was a brand new is
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by ktsmith 16y ago
Your transparency has probably generated more good will than you know. My wife and I are planning on relocating some time in the next year, probably to the Seattle area. As part of this I've already started to take a look at what jobs are a
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by ktsmith 16y ago
I've rolled this out recently as well, we give the user the option of a voice call or SMS. We did this knowing that about 50% of our users sign up by giving us a land line and may not have a cell phone. Twilio provides a code example right
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by ktsmith 16y ago
The flip side of this is that at 20 something he may not have those relationships established, or may not be sure about the lawyer/banker he's chosen. There also seem to be quite a few people here that have been through similar circumstance
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by ktsmith 16y ago
Yup, merchants don't just end up paying for the actual credit card fraud via chargebacks, they often lose tons of money on fraudulent chargebacks. In those cases the merchant will win the dispute and get the money they were owed, but will b
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by ktsmith 16y ago
Followed by: "I meant that one." Given the line of questioning and the audience I don't really think the response was that horrible. It makes her seem a little more human, which played into a comment that Arrington made at the beginning of
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by ktsmith 16y ago
> That may be (or not), but we're talking about political activity in the open, which has little/no relationship with protecting teachers against administrative sanctions wrt false accusations of child abuse. > "Administrative sanct
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by ktsmith 16y ago
You would get few applicants for teaching positions with no pay to start. Teachers have to have degrees and teaching certificates which can be very expensive and given the current state of education many teachers enter the profession with s
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by ktsmith 16y ago
I can't speak to CA, but in NV much of what the teachers union has done within the school district simply can't be talked about due to confidentiality clauses and other employee protection laws/regulations not to mention those about protect
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by ktsmith 16y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you have no actual experience with teachers unions, teachers contracts, teachers liability, or school districts in general other than your own time attending schools. I have no love for unions in
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by ktsmith 16y ago
Removing the restrictions has no effect at all. Nevada, where I live and my wife teaches, changed the law to require that all teaching contracts have some type of performance based pay clause in them. The result is that the contracts for th
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by ktsmith 16y ago
I always picture scenes from Minority Report when I read about Facebook and where it's headed. There was an uproar over beacon in part because it was blatant. It seems that Facebook has learned their lesson and is trying to rebuild beacon m
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by ktsmith 17y ago
Depends on the complexity of their template system and theme engine. I doubt that it's that big of a deal if you look at the majority of their existing themes the engine and capabilities of the site are extremely simple. There are plenty of
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by ktsmith 17y ago
The end user will only know there is an error if you reformat the date to say something like "March 5, 2010." We are essentially filling out federal forms which require the date to be entered MM/DD/YYYY and council advised that the user mus
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by ktsmith 17y ago
Most people ignored any note about what format the date needed to be entered in. We also found that many people were confused by the ISO format, or were simply irritated by it. The solution presented above has eliminated the most errors and
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by ktsmith 17y ago
Of course if you don't win they can still turn your entry into a theme. Sounds like a really inexpensive way to increase their 70 custom themes to several hundred for only $13k.
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by ktsmith 17y ago
Selected date vs current date.

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