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by pflats 15y ago
There is a currently a large push from tech companies, colleges, and CS teachers and the CSTA to increase the number and diversity of students in both programming and computer science. The College Board discontinued their AP CS B exam bec
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The article did say that "he" makes $500/day, which I interpreted as Adam's own net. 3 people a day, $500 each founder, maybe less for the translator (flat wage rather than a stake?), that's a decent business. If it's $500 in total income f
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Sounds like they already have an easy, legal alternative. Which most people seem to agree is the best way to beat piracy. That said, if you don't think there's going to be an installer/.reg file/some easy fire and forget way to switch a com
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Above all, I really respect him for his piece on waterboarding. For those of you who didn't see it/hear about it, he wanted to try to settle the debate on whether waterboarding is torture or not. So he let himself be waterboarded. VF Articl
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This is pretty cool. As a mathematician, I feel like they should get to R instead of, say, how to use IRC or emacs, but I'm sure that's just my bias. When I was an undergrad, every 3rd year student had to take a class that involved write a
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There's a number of other local pro shops that are equally apportioned that don't charge such a fee. Some even offer incentives to buy there (free sharpenings, free stick if you buy a top-end pair, etc.) rather than the disincentive to leav
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A parallel: a local hockey pro shop charges a "fitting fee" ($25, I think) for trying on ice skates there. If you end up buying skates, they put the fee towards your purchase. I find the practice repellant, but that's just me.
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I have a lifestyle cancer: melanoma. That said, I didn't realize "going outside with short hair and no hat" was a bad lifestyle choice until it was too late, so I'm posting here: Hey fair skinned folks! Just wearing sunscreen IS NOT ENOUGH
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8th grade students are 13-14. Students generally start in Kindergarten at 5; Americans don't enjoy 0-indecies, but Kindergarten is Grade 0. You can extrapolate from there for the other years. I don't teach in VA, but according to the implem
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The article doesn't even say what state the gentleman comes from, and the tests still vary state-to-state. That's changing, with PARCC[1], but that's not really relevant to this article. [1] http://parcconline.org/about-parcc Virgina relea
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Traditionally, Americans applying to Ivy schools take the SATs sometime midway through their 3rd year of High School, when they're anywhere from 16-17. Many will take it this month. Also, as you may know, many calculators today have a CAS,
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If things continue as they are, expect this to change a bit. In particular, proofs like #4 on Geometry is going to be a requirement in 45 of the 50 states. Check G-SRT.4 at http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/high-...
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Many, many schools today offer "College Prep" calculus, which is far less rigorous than AP Calc. It covers most of the same topics, but with less depth. It's unlikely a College Prep Calc class would spend much time, if any, memorizing Trig
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You're exaggerating more than a little bit. There's 2 trigonometric proofs, and a number of less than obvious geometric proofs, especially the latter ones pertaining to the circle. The rational equation in #8 on algebra going to involve sol
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I do too, when I'm speaking aloud. In my experience, though, when writing, the actual degree is listed(PhD, MD, EdD, JD, DDS, etc.), rather than the more generic "doctor". edit: Just checked; the AP and Reuters style guides both seem to rec
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While I don't mean to make light of the effort and prestige behind earning a PhD, I can't be the only one who expected this article to be about how a medical doctor originally invented the technology behind AutoTune, possibly to help people
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True, but it seems that CarrierIQ is, as its name implies, a service for the carriers. Since Apple doesn't let ATT et. al. customize iOS, it likely got into the OS as part of the bargain with them.
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Look at it from an officer's perspective: They're going to watch the one where people are more likely to go over the speed limit (i.e. the straightaway). The winding road is self-policing; the majority of drivers will stay under the limit o
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> Unfortunately, the details are being kept confidential, so I'm not sure what is being counted as "hedge funds". I wouldn't be surprised if they had simply agreed on a subset of prominent hedge funds from '08 that the two agree repr
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On the MacBooks I've seen, Page Up/Down is usually Fn+Up Arrow/Fn+Down Arrow. I don't know if this is implemented in software or hardware, though, so if you're running *nix, you might be out of luck.
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If I remember correctly, though, the sequel to Knights of the Old Republic had a character who went out of her way to point out that both the light and dark sides of the force are self-serving, and that the Jedi and the Sith each honored th
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I know it's incredibly nitpicky and obviously a concious design decision for a "minimalist" set of cards, but I really miss the stems on the spade and club symbols.
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A little googling shows some interesting info about the ACE request/header. From skimming, it looks like a header compression method for VOIP on cell/lossy connections. Slide deck: http://www-rn.informatik.uni-bremen.de/ietf/rohc/ace-03310
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Did you read the article? When the proxy failed, they "ressorted (sic) to using tcpdump on a network gateway". They eventually had to "setup a custom SSL certification authority, add it to our iPhone 4S, and use it to sign our very own ce
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It seems to back up to iCloud, for me at least.
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Without AirPlay support, this is pretty much a non-starter for me. But I rarely play music from my computer, so I'm probably not your target audience. Also, I think this is really missing from your FAQ: Q: Why should I use Enqueue instead o
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I'm not sure how much this'd be important, but Apple (iTunes, really) has a presence in Starbucks stores. The lawyers might consider that enough to perk up their radar.
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Bereft of outside research, I was responding to the article, which stated, "Over the past 25 years the total number of students in college has increased by about 50 percent. But the number of students graduating with degrees in science, tec
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> I can only assume that there's some desire within Google to make sure the iPhone versions of their products are complete dogshit to try and encourage Android adoption. I find it interesting that Google is intentionally using its own
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Not at all. The increased college enrollment over the past 25 years is a nationwide push from the highest levels of government, academia, and business to get more students to enroll. Over the years, though, this goal has become somewhat div

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