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by pflats 15y ago
Completely agreed. I'm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg, though: the push for more college-educated students, or the degree screen for jobs.
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A number of states require postgraduate degrees (and then continuing education) for teachers in order to renew their teaching licenses.
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This is a consequence of the concerted effort by educators to increase post-secondary enrollment in the United States. Presumably, the students likely to enroll in a math or science program were (by and large) already heading to college 25
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It's entirely for supercomputer bragging rights. Putting up a new record for pi gets attention by virtue of how much computational time it would take. To think, if he had used this for bitcoin mining instead, he could be a hundredaire.
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Yeah, I'd consider it. Feel free to shoot an email to my username at gmail if you have any questions.
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"People will sign on to their Google Mail accounts and see OpenClass as one of their available products at the top of their Web browser. They will also be able to use Gmail and Google Docs from within the program." Is it just me, or is this
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by pflats 15y ago
The way this version handles footnotes[1] looks absolutely outstanding. More e-reading software should have a pop-over like this. I'd pay way more than $5 to get this feature on my Kindle. [1] http://www.marco.org/media/2011/10/ip4-footnot
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by pflats 15y ago
I'm really starting to wonder if Hasting's days at the CEO position are numbered. I can't imagine the board and investors are already thrilled with the stock's reaction to the price hike and Qwikster. Now that he's going back on his bold pl
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One could also read this as: Within the year, of the 650,000 first offenders, there is only a 6.8% recitivism rate. Further, 99.99% of those initial offenders have halted their behavoir before the third strike. Also, a quick googling also g
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by pflats 15y ago
This also means that Verizon's iPhones lose one of their biggest downsides, that whole worldwide compatability thing.
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My employer (a public school system) has blocked everything but IE9 on port 80 to keep students from using proxies/tunneling/[other firewall avoidance method].
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Whitman was tapped on September 22nd. As best I can tell, this dinner was "last Wednesay", September 26th. Did she plan a $7,500/plate dinner in 4 days? Would Nerny rather she have cancelled it? Is this really enough reason to pillory a for
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by pflats 15y ago
I teach math at a high school (and have taught CS in the past, before budget cuts got rid of the program). This article is good advice, but a couple things from my own experience: 1. Anything to be used in-class is a much harder sell than
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by pflats 15y ago
It's worth noting that the Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times Co. I'd be somewhat comfortable (and admittedly, somewhat hopeful) venturing a guess that they're pushing this design as some sort of skunkworks project for their bigger
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by pflats 15y ago
"In the past year, the number of women majoring in Computer Science has nearly doubled at Harvard, rising from 13% to 25% (still nowhere near the 37% of 1984). [...] In the past three years, the number of female Computer Science majors at
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by pflats 15y ago
The best solution I've found: I lie on all my security questions. Give your father's middle name instead of your mother's maiden name, or something. As long as you're consistent in your lies, it's not hard to keep track of.
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End result of the iOS subscription hullabaloo: deleted sign-up links(allthingsd.com)
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I would think that security in this regard is far easier for Apple than it is for Microsoft. By virtue of their closed hardware, Apple has a very limited set of graphics cards for OS X to support. I'd imagine that this makes graphics driver
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by pflats 15y ago
Just a heads-up for folks who can't/don't want to watch a video right now: This is a link to a blog post with a video in it, not a direct link to a video. (I was mislead by the [video] tag; it's from the original blog post.)
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by pflats 15y ago
As a math teacher, his branding/personal presentation makes me bristle. One of the hardest things to do is to convince a struggling student that "only nerds can do math" is not a truism. By presenting himself as a stereotypical nerd (i.e.,
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by pflats 15y ago
I see your point, but I'm not quite sure that the two things go hand in hand. If the vast majority of developers were publically financed and had LIFO laws, I'd imagine that there'd be calls to end that practice as well. In both cases, thou
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by pflats 15y ago
Almost. The site quotes the money that Apple keeps "after paying content owners but before paying for other costs". The 1.3 billion doesn't include paying the record/movie labels, bands, or app developers, but does include everything else.
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Why would you say that? Teachers have an incredibly high attrition rate. Barely half of the new teacher classes make it 5 years. The vast majority of the highly-regarded teachers I know are ones who have been doing it for 25 years or more.
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by pflats 15y ago
I agree with most of what you say, but (probably because I come from academic research) disagree with the spirit. This sounds a lot to me like a grant propsal: Team: "Hey, we think <Algorithm X> is an untested and potentionally
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by pflats 15y ago
Of course they get it. They just don't care. If this was opt-in by default, it wouldn't get nearly the same adoption. Lots of people would click no, then never change the setting. The general public will eventually get over it, the same way
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by pflats 15y ago
An interesting parallel to this that might be worth looking at is the Japanese market. America used to get anime way later than it was released, and there was enormous amounts of piracy. By the time the show would be released on DVD, many p
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by pflats 15y ago
I think one of the best ways to at least look at why the music industry is really reeling is to take a look at album sales and singles sales. When CDs hit the market, there was no compelling way to get singles. CD singles were relatively ra
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by pflats 15y ago
Not at all. Suppose you and I work for the same company. I bust open Skype through decompilation, reading memory, the network, whatever trick I want. With that, I write documentation for how Skype's protocols work. You read my documentation
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In a 3d environment, sprites have systemic issues regarding viewing angles. If a bad guy runs directly at you, or at you from a 30 degree angle, he looks exactly the same. Models convey more information than sprites do about their environme
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by pflats 15y ago
As a user, this is my preferred way of having things work out. For SaaS, though, I can understand why a company would eventually want to purge incomplete, unconverted trials from their servers. Perhaps a system that offered 14 free days of

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