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by pflats 14y ago
I definitely see the appeal here. Do you have any plans to give schools an on-site solution, rather than use your servers? Do you do this? Your site is rather light on details.
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One of the major pains in the butt for a teacher is getting students set up on a learning web app. Either you spend a bunch of your own time making an account for each student (which is time you could spend doing something more important) o
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Clever is an SIS: student information system. The SIS we use at my school is a web app that integrates all the database functions you might associate with schools: scheduling, grading, attendance, discipline, etc. Ours is ugly but functiona
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Not if they plug into a traditional wall outlet. There are rules and laws about these things. If the outlet has a T-slot on one side, it can take 125V 20A plugs (125*20 = 2.5kW) as well as the traditional 125V 15A plugs. They're different p
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Those are called scare quotes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
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by pflats 14y ago
I agree. It also points out to me my biggest complaint with calling programmers "software engineers". A Professional Engineer (i.e. licensed, capital P and E) would never say, "Oh, you don't have an arc welder? No rivet gun? Well, I suppose
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They push an update to iOS 5? Which has OTA self-updates. Lion and Snow Leopard and Vista and countless other old OSes get updates. XP still won't get EOS-ed for another 2 years.
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There are fewer Linux users than Mac users, and fewer Mac users than Windows users. Thus, the mean sale price for Linux users is more strongly affected by any single big sale than the mean sale price for Mac or Windows users. I'd be curious
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They say they have mac/pc apps as well. I'd assume anyone on the local network could control the lights, probably with optional password protection?
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It looks like their goal is to make the entire project "electrician-free". Replacing a light switch is still intimidating for a large number of people.
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It also gets Apple more information on the developer, should the company ever want to track them down. A payment history leaves a wider and longer paper trail. I'd also assume that Apple blacklists any certificate if the developer used some
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by pflats 14y ago
Huh. The Metro Group is much, much bigger than I imagined when I saw it was a German store. Wikipedia says they're the 5th biggest retailer in the world, 67B Euro in revenue in 2010. Surprised this American, that's for sure. I can imagine w
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Among other things, I'm sure syntax highlighting doesn't help.
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Some relevant quotes from the Ouya devs in Ben Kuchera's article[1]: "That [controller] design is not final," I was told. "We are in a prototype phase and exploring several options." "We know the hardware specifications, and are working wit
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I'm guessing it'll be tweaked to support a controller? And it's a big-name "Launch Title". Gives some cred.
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Yup. Caught the typo when I wrote the post, even, but I apparently retyped it the same way.
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>It is certainly how I was taught about slope, and I went on to graduate from MIT, so whatever nuance this definition allegedly didn't catch did me no harm. In that case, this debate really isn't about you. You were probably an exceptio
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Siracusa's review is expected, and I'm sure a lot of HN folks saw it coming. Despite the fact that it's new and comprehensive, it's not nearly as new and exciting as Marco's blog post. Plus, comedy will almost always do better than a review
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Further, she's done some of this before: "With only one high-school coding class under her belt — in a language that is no longer used — McCreery spent her evenings learning to code." Regardless of the language she learned in high school, t
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by pflats 14y ago
I hope that it was clear that I wasn't trying to diminish the value of a BA either. There is definite merit to wanting more breadth than depth, especially if you already have a job. I just wanted the OP to be aware of the biases out there.
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Backgroud: I have a BS in mathematics, and teach high-school mathematics. I'm working on my MS in applied mathematics part-time (in an actual classroom), but I'm considering switching over to a PhD program. How much math have you studied? H
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It's looking like the iPad was prototyped out as a full-screen touchscreen ~4 years before the iPhone ever came out. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/earliest-known-ph... So it is slightly possible that both companies came to th
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by pflats 14y ago
Was looking at compasses for my students next year, and saw an interesting take on the "Facebook tracks you through like buttons" issue from an very unlikely source.
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Fighting Facebook Tracking: Hover over F like on the bottom of the page.(staedtler.com)
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There are bad teachers everywhere, just like there are bad engineers, bad bartenders, and bad doctors. Focusing on them as a sample, representative or not, is wasting time. Just because a teacher doesn't believe that there's multiple ways t
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>Seriously, you want to "raise the level of the discussion" with this type of piss-poor commentary? The only thing you're accomplishing at the moment is simply re-inforcing the stereotype that traditional education teachers are threaten
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There is no pull request for Khan Academy. I don't even see a bug tracker. Teachers and other involved people have tried to do everything else; it just doesn't get their attention. The last time Khan posted a call to hire on HN, I reached o
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I've never had to teach this, except remedially, where honestly, time is a major issue. A teacher in my building has students record someone walking backwards down the hallway, then plays the video back in reverse. The student appears to wa
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First, let's just ignore the straw man of: >Honestly, is this any different from a company ninety years ago denying service to non-whites because it "could be perceived as encouraging the races to intermarry?" I think we can both agree
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4 years ago, I spilled coffee on my MacBook. It started to act a little funky about detecting the battery, but otherwise worked fine. Since it was under (the extended Apple Care) warranty, and the Apple Store was a 20 minute drive away in P

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