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by patja 10y ago
Can we get a spelling correction for the word silicon on the title?
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by patja 10y ago
I suspect working in an Amazon warehouse is much more physically intensive with commensurate increases in injuries and other job-induced ailments as compared to most retail jobs.
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by patja 10y ago
I've used this in the classroom in the past, but I absolutely hate that Mozilla's terms of service excludes students under the age of 13. If you are going to make a product for educational purposes, you need to take on the extra
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by patja 10y ago
I am curious about your conclusion that some newspapers in state capitals are doing OK with subscriptions. Can you say more about which specific state capitals and newspapers you see as thriving? What do you see as different that is makin
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by patja 10y ago
Even if they will do as well in either and achieve the same learning outcomes, having a top-ranked school on your resume has value as a signal. And the alumni network has value as well.
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by patja 10y ago
I think the argument goes something like: the well-off will do well no matter what, but if only knowledge is standing in the way of helping the poor achieve their full potential, it is a goal worth pursuing for the benefit of society.
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by patja 10y ago
I too have a to-do list that I will never drain. The 24 hours in a day are an immutable tyrant governing all of our choices. Ask anyone who has taken a sabbatical for a month or two...most people spend the year leading up to sabbatical dr
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by patja 10y ago
It is also easy to lose sight of the fact that once your kids are in their teens, they really start living their own lives much more so than in the past. You don't see that you are going to say goodbye to your days as the family'
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by patja 10y ago
Just read that and concur that it rings true for many of the negative aspects of teaching I've experienced as well. Plus I work in a private school environment where there is the complication of parents being to a certain degree custo
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by patja 10y ago
I did something a little similar. After one too many Microsoft reorgs (5 managers in one year, including a VP fired for sexual harassment) I left to do other things including teaching tech to middle school students, mostly Scratch, Lego Mi
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by patja 10y ago
A problem with assessing Microsoft's engineering culture and practices is that at Microsoft is there is no consistent unifying set of engineering practices. Product teams need to comply with some standard processes around security and
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by patja 10y ago
I think they don't really do much in the way of targeting. I get a couple of these fake IRS calls every week.
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by patja 10y ago
From the information provided I am doubtful that this is really a load test of healthcare.gov. It sounds like they are testing the login and account management system in isolation from the overall workflow of entering your financial data,
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by patja 10y ago
I could not for the life of me figure out what I was supposed to do on the "pick up to 3 symbols" page. And I really tried!
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by patja 10y ago
I had a manager who believed very strongly in this approach. Her go-to tactic was to take whole teams out to an idyllic retreat center on an island where we did ropes courses and trust falls and spent the evenings sitting in a circle until
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by patja 10y ago
Totally agree. His personal/family life is a shambles which is a real litmus test of character and integrity. He has achieved great financial, business, and technology successes and is a visionary, but let's not confuse that with
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by patja 10y ago
What is batch OPML import? I'm confused by the use of the word batch in this context. How is this different from plain old OPML import? It is not like someone is going to import their feeds one at a time. Anyways, any RSS reader lac
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by patja 10y ago
Naming matters. I can't see this without instantly thinking it is about delicious sandwiches.
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by patja 10y ago
I wish the time horizon on this matched the time horizon on which tickets are available. It seems to be about a month short when I compare to directly shopping for flights on airline websites. Granted that shouldn't matter quite as mu
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by patja 10y ago
I subscribe to the WSJ and the one column I have learned to never read unless I want to shake my head at the way the modern media writes tech journalism is Joanna Stern's column. It is tech advice for people uncomfortable thinking for
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by patja 10y ago
I was expecting the noob to be rejected for not knowing how to spell the word 'amateur' correctly.
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by patja 10y ago
Netflix still ships physical media, and has a much wider selection than streaming. Unfortunately many of the discs you get from Netflix are made specifically for the rental market and have been purposely degraded by having features such as
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by patja 10y ago
I don't know that "the complete mess" is just about bullying and vile content, but more the horrible issues of signal to noise and the inability to filter out irrelevant responses. Forums, email lists, and Google Groups stil
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by patja 10y ago
The cardboard box may actually be better than many cribs, at least from the perspective of reducing the risk of SIDS: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sts/about/risk/Pages/reduce.aspx
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by patja 10y ago
The world abounds with people so full of hubris that they are firmly convicted they have the answers to others' needs and problems. Why not give kids a back to school kit? Because maybe they need food or socks or medicine more than t
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by patja 10y ago
Econtalk is a great podcast. I dream of the day when Paul Krugman will agree to be a guest.
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by patja 10y ago
What is the general take on the initial ballpark of 170k - 200k vs. the actual offer of low 6 figures? Is that just how the game is played and to be expected (e.g., never believe anything they say to get you into interviews), or is it some
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by patja 10y ago
Can it capture a 5.1 AC3 audio stream along with the video?
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by patja 10y ago
My daughter is a high school senior. She says her class is the last one that still uses Facebook at all, and even that is mostly to interact with family not friends. On the other hand, they are all active on Instagram so it isn't lik
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by patja 11y ago
I think you are blocking ads. I am too and that's what I see. From a device not blocking ads this is what I see: http://imgur.com/yZDK7og

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