misuba

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by misuba 17y ago
"Some people argue that if we raise teacher salaries, we'll have people become teachers for the money instead of for the love of teaching." There are way easier ways to make $125K if that's all you want.
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by misuba 17y ago
The article focuses on the hiring process they went through to find great teachers who were already teaching. The real challenge, though, is to find the best teachers who would be teaching if it weren't for the absurdly low compensation f
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by misuba 17y ago
...that doesn't behave like any other lightbox anywhere. This Expose tool is just flat-out bad UI; it emphasizes something, makes the user guess how to deemphasize it, and isn't visibly for anything.
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by misuba 17y ago
For a very thorough and less hysterical take on some of the same problems of centralized currency, see Douglas Rushkoff's book _Life Inc._
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by misuba 17y ago
Outliner users seem even more finicky than other users. (I say this as one of them.)
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by misuba 17y ago
Is there an option to hide the panel on the right? I prefer the classic single-pane style. (Warning to devs: outliner users are finicky, finicky bastards.)
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by misuba 17y ago
Do as Google Accounts does (or did last I checked), and require either a mobile number or a referral to create an account. For Twitter the mobile part even makes sense, sort of.
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by misuba 17y ago
No - the application/javascript-socks scripts are putting Ruby-style code blocks in places JavaScript doesn't generally allow them. Presumably that's the reason for the alternate MIME type on the script.
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by misuba 17y ago
That everpresent "Mathematica" blurb on the screens doesn't represent any kind of site category, I don't think; the whole site is driven by Mathematica behind the scenes. The Mathematica link often visible looks like it goes to some sort of
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by misuba 17y ago
What I don't get is why web frameworks put routing into the code at all. Most of them don't do anything interesting with it (Rails is the most prominent exception), and if you're just gonna map a few things with regexes, well... what's so d
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by misuba 17y ago
So, are there any in-browser lisps that, you know, do something? Maybe one that plays in the Pipes space, letting you work with feeds of various sorts?
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by misuba 17y ago
But why break the already-established custom of big black arrows that point at the buttons every time you need to use one? I barely even saw the letters on the map.
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by misuba 17y ago
Despite being told it wasn't a touchscreen I tried to click on individual stations on the map multiple times. People are focused on the station they want to go to; if you show it to them, it's going to be staticky for them to figure out the
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by misuba 17y ago
It is, in the form of the now-open-source Enso. (But really, Ubiquity is in Firefox alone because the general case is a whole lot harder.)
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by misuba 17y ago
Chef Achatz is absolutely a hacker. The chapter on him in Michael Ruhlman's _The Reach of a Chef_ is extraordinary.
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by misuba 17y ago
Ah, I forgot about that. Cute, but we of course need a slightly less gamey, more contemplative play experience for this problem.
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by misuba 17y ago
Maybe someone should take a tip from the scientists and game developers behind Fold It!, the protein folding "game," and create a simple Flash web game that lets players hint and kern open fonts a letter at a time.
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by misuba 17y ago
Paging Mark Shuttleworth; Mark Shuttleworth, please pick up the white courtesy phone. Lots of people care about the open web, like type, and have money to throw at the problem. Well, okay, not lots, but enough.
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by misuba 17y ago
How are you going to hide a @fontface call in your CSS file?
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by misuba 18y ago
Actually that newspaper is the Seattle P-I, but okay.
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by misuba 18y ago
You've just identified the fundamental split in D&D culture. D&D was groundbreaking because it was game-breaking - it took the fundamental concept of "game," being a closed loop of processes, and split it open a bit by allowing play
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by misuba 18y ago
Impromptu doesn't run on a REPL, though. It detects and evaluates whatever statement you're inside of. Python would probably make this possible as well (if things like Reinteract are any indication).
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by misuba 18y ago
Maybe that teacher was appalled at the gouging. Ten cents for a stick of gum??
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by misuba 18y ago
True, the income and security brought in by followers is a powerful incentive. Whereas if you communicate clearly about atheism all you get is fewer people hating you for no damn reason.
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by misuba 18y ago
Uh... aren't we kind of burying the lede here? Ruby has macros now. For some limited definition of 'macros,' maybe, but screw it, I'm there. Thank you, Mr. Braithwaite!
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by misuba 18y ago
Sam Harris covered this stuff in The End of Faith. It's depressing how few critics of "new atheists" have read the people they have beef with; then again, it's even more depressing how few atheists make successful communication a priority.
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by misuba 18y ago
How do you measure merit?
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by misuba 18y ago
It's been a few weeks now since the Seattle P-I went web only. Anyone else notice how there were lots of news stories about that change, and now nothing? Reporters aren't even interested. They just believe that going to the web equals death
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by misuba 18y ago
This is an excellent question, and if we want excellent answers, it is the question we need to be asking - NOT "how will we save the newspaper."
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by misuba 18y ago
So, discovery of municipal corruption will be paid for entirely by people who lack the conviction that they shouldn't have to pay extra just to have a clean government? Are you sure there are no flaws in this plan?

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