penprog

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by penprog 12y ago
I always got Bs in highschool. These were 89s and 87s. My homework average, which usually accounted for 20 to 30% of my grade was usually 80 or lower. Thankfully I left loving learning and am always learning new things from different subjec
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by penprog 12y ago
It's a different sample though. People that do Harvard and MIT moocs are usually people that want to learn the subject and are self motivating whereas school is forced upon everyone. Willing or unwilling. Basically your post confirms
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by penprog 12y ago
I think a lot of it was social engineering and bad passwords. If you are using multiple services and one is compromised you can pretty much give up access to everything if you use the same password all around.
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by penprog 12y ago
It's realistic. Minecraft is this generations pokemon. In fact I think it's bigger. Not only boys but a significant amount of girls play it. Not only does it have cultural value it also makes money (which instagram doesn't)
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by penprog 12y ago
This website is the website for the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street is pretty much used to describe the financial markets of the US as a whole. If you are reading an article about finance it's useful for the reader to have instant acc
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by penprog 12y ago
Sooo... you want a world without business or government entities? What?
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by penprog 12y ago
What sold me about this game is that it was made by the creators of Soldat. I have so many good memories playing that game.
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by penprog 12y ago
One of the most enlightening blog posts I've read on development of software applications. Talks about how they had to manage investor and kickstarter backer expectations. How they cut half of the content they created because if was ba
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Dev for succesfull kickstarter Divinity: Original Sin talks about his experience(lar.net)
1 points by penprog 12y ago|1 comments
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by penprog 12y ago
I wasn't trying to be a jerk, I should have explained myself better. Basically using a smart tv is analogous to young people using the internet in this situation because A. You are picking and choosing your content. B. You aren't
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by penprog 12y ago
Smart TV and cable are not the same.
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by penprog 12y ago
> It makes sense to keep things separate, even physically separate Saying something doesn't make it true. >2. If I watch TV, I do not want to be bothered about thinking what to watch. I reserve these kinds of decisions for work
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by penprog 12y ago
Same, I am currently in college and have free cable in my room. I even had a TV at one point. Never hooked them up. Ended up selling the tv.
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by penprog 12y ago
It was talked about when it was said how it was embarrassing for patients to have to find their own donors.