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by patja 9y ago
He freely admits he has never read anything about any of this or made a serious study of it, or had to implement any of it. It is more of a perspective or list of observations from life in the trenches than a serious study or even a very i
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by patja 9y ago
Not having to worry about a more complex OS burping, leaking, or otherwise failing on you. As one poster on the Arduino forums explained it to me once, "you never know when Linux is going to nip off for a cup of tea and interrupt your
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by patja 9y ago
When I think of IoT I think of devices gathering data, and the data has to go somewhere to be useful. What's the alternative to putting it in the cloud, self-hosting the storage? That's what I would do, but I think it is a prett
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by patja 9y ago
I dunno if it is so important these days. I've had my full name as a .com for about 20 years now, with plenty of content on the site. Over the years I've watched it slip down the search results and it is now on page 10 when you s
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by patja 9y ago
If you enjoy this article you might also enjoy the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, which is available for free under Creative Commons and has some interesting ideas about consciousness vs. intelligence.
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by patja 9y ago
I teach robotics to students age 11 - 14. We have settled on the definition that a robot must do three things: sense, think, act. First thing I do is take away all of the remote controls and tell them they have to program it. I wish that
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by patja 9y ago
When I see an app has over 100 million installs, half a million 5 star reviews, and a support email address ending in @amazon.com it seems pretty sure to be the real deal.
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by patja 9y ago
I hate the trend to video as well (I can read and comprehend faster than any video can speak), but I wonder if it is just the inevitable result of the continued expansion of who is on the web. Many people in the world are not nearly as lit
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by patja 9y ago
If you can pay a little more, just get a subscription to The Economist
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by patja 9y ago
Aside from the more obvious answers, I would suggest taking some philosophy courses. I still frequently draw upon what I learned in my logic course from philosophy. That and anything that improves your communication skills. Courses with a
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by patja 9y ago
I teach at the middle school level and I can tell you very few teachers have any awareness of COPPA. They see kids using these apps and services and just assume it is normal. Parents are checked out or overly-permissive about telling thei
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by patja 9y ago
Amazon has many examples where they execute so poorly as to verge on the incompetent. Take the ads on the Kindle for example: why advertise books to me which I already own and purchased from Amazon? And then there is Prime video streamin
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by patja 9y ago
Facebook is either incapable (which I doubt) of enforcing their terms of service, or has concluded that it is in their best interests to turn a blind eye towards people with more than one account and children in the US under age 13 who have
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by patja 9y ago
I am pretty sure this is exactly what the SD card slot on the EV3 is designed for. That and science experiment data logging in the education edition.
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by patja 9y ago
Especially for those with partners and children they risk leaving behind without them, or even that they abandon them for weeks on end training for and pursuing their personal goals. These endeavors always strike me as being very selfish,
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by patja 9y ago
HR is not really intended to be the employee's friend or advocate. They work for the interests of the shareholders and management. It can be like reporting police corruption to the police -- not always a very effective course of acti
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by patja 9y ago
I believe that over time your environment shapes you. I agree that you should devote your working hours to something more than shareholder value or increased clickthrough rates. Sure you can pull down the big bucks working on the next ver
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by patja 9y ago
Amazon continues to underwhelm with their lack of delivery on the potential presented by their vast store of purchase history. In some ways, this justifies their high stock price as they have this valuable asset they have yet to tap. Some
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by patja 9y ago
Isn't proficiency with Microsoft Office still expected in most workplace environments? Google docs, sheets, slides all fall short of the capabilities of their equivalent applications in Office. The Google apps are good enough for man
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by patja 9y ago
Even if the Chromebooks aren't subsidized, Google Apps for Education is free to use which amounts to some kind of subsidy.
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by patja 9y ago
I've been through too many OneDrive snafus to invest more effort into making it work or trusting it for anything. Failed syncs, never-ending syncs, and it has hosed up my OneNote notebooks such that I have a whole set of duplicate not
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by patja 9y ago
I've developed my own curriculum over the past 6 years or so of teaching using it. I have a series of assignments I created to get them to build simple games and music videos, leaving a maximum of latitude for individual creativity ar
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by patja 9y ago
Scratch is the tool I go back to over and over for teaching my middle school (age 11 - 14) students. And it keeps getting better. The classroom feature they recently added completely resolved my number 1 issue with Scratch which was the d
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by patja 9y ago
There is a big difference between Microsoft's Minecraft: Education Edition product and MinecraftEdu. Microsoft's product offering is a pale shadow of the much-loved MinecraftEdu. Educators are still complaining about it: the su
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by patja 10y ago
Hopefully this will have the ancillary benefit of creating a marketplace of mods, worlds, etc. that actually work without having to wade through adfly downloads, rambling YouTube videos where a paragraph of text would be better, and outdate
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by patja 10y ago
The Xbox Amazon video streaming app has always been pretty crappy. Significantly worse picture quality than streaming on a computer (unwatchable in my opinion), and odd/exceptional choices for navigation. Much of the blame for this i
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by patja 10y ago
It is admirable to take the consequences and responsibilities of committing to a marriage seriously. Divorce casts a huge emotional, financial, and societal wake that many (including the children) never recover from. More people should he
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by patja 10y ago
Why specifically do you want them to design and build for the web? Seems like a tall order for 7 to 9 year olds. A lot depends on how much time and interest they have. With some kids, you show them a few things and act as a resource to th
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by patja 10y ago
Old guy here. I am sure many like me find the whole premise of the company a bit repulsive. If you are going to throw all of your professional energy into creating and growing a company can't you find something more meaningful than ju
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by patja 10y ago
Thanks for sharing. I love the education licensing! I've been teaching with Scratch and MinecraftEdu/ComputerCraft (which also uses Lua) and this looks like a promising addition to my classroom tech stack. Extra-cool that it is

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