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by pflats 11y ago
As a classroom teacher, I agree wholeheartedly. A timeline for when you will respond in more depth (24h, a week, a month) is also quite helpful.
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by pflats 11y ago
>The dash cams are for their benefit. There was a county in another state that implemented dash cams for their police force and found an 80% drop in complaints against officers. Baloney. The cameras are for the public's benefit. Ima
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by pflats 11y ago
Every time I read another article on this, it makes me more skeptical about Zuckerberg's for-profit "charity".
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by pflats 11y ago
>That's weird. This particular court case is him vs Romania, not him vs his employer. The earlier cases, in Romania, would have been him vs the employer. The suit is in the European Court of Human Rights. He was claiming that Romani
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by pflats 11y ago
Moving education features to September/October release essentially dooms them to not be used until the next school year, or at least the second semester. Testing and implementing new technology midstream is tough in education. Most of
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by pflats 11y ago
>My only option is shady SD streams. It's better than nothing, but I'm willing to throw money at the problem if they'll let me. >I don't have a legal option to watch my team play unless I grab an overpriced cable&
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by pflats 11y ago
I've responded to a few comments here already, but I'm a math/CS teacher who is a friend and research partner of the author, and I contributed a very small amount to Nix the Tricks. I'd be more than happy to take any que
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by pflats 11y ago
Just for clarity on all my responses in these threads, I'm a (minor) contributor to Nix the Tricks and a personal friend and research partner of the author. Why is (1/2) / (1/4) = 2? It's because there are 2 quarte
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by pflats 11y ago
Just for clarity on all my responses in these threads, I'm a (minor) contributor to Nix the Tricks and a personal friend and research partner of the author. Yes, all of the tricks were submitted by math teachers that we have seen used
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by pflats 11y ago
Just for clarity on all my responses in these threads, I'm a (minor) contributor to Nix the Tricks and a personal friend and research partner of the author. And the one shown right on the front page (for me) cross multiply is how you
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by pflats 11y ago
Exactly. There's no reason we couldn't use, say, R^4 for the same purposes, but a 2x2 matrix is just a more convenient structure.
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by pflats 11y ago
I'd put you at early. You're ready to learn more. Don't pick something interesting up from Github. Reading the source code from a complete project is tough as hell for an experienced programmer. The stuff you don't know
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by pflats 11y ago
Honestly, that sounds more like CYA than anything else. If they use crash reports to say that OS 10.12 crashes at 1/5 the rate of 10.11, then they're using your data for marketing/advertising. I'm willing to hold my scor
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by pflats 11y ago
Weird. I've only heard about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon recently, but I'm an expert on the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by pflats 11y ago
Yeah, for the people confused, "authentication codeword" might be a better way to think of it. This is not the traditional password, this is akin to the phone support version of your mother's maiden name. If I were to call up
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by pflats 12y ago
It'll only work if your buyer hires a terrible home inspector. The last time I bought a house, the inspector worked for hours. In the end, I got a 14-page write-up, plus accompanying photos of any major defects and/or code violati
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by pflats 12y ago
>Really? How is being a brain surgeon more difficult than being a computer surgeon ? Understanding how a CPU completely works... Well, we know how everything about how a CPU works. We don't know everything about how a brain works.
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by pflats 12y ago
>Usually good books travel from English speaking world to other languages as translations. How do you know that?
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by pflats 12y ago
For houses with lots of windows and bigger pets, one of the more ubiquitous sensors is the acoustic glass break sensor. You only need to jam that one for a few seconds to get in.
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by pflats 12y ago
Same here. I'm surprised they haven't rebranded the line to try to shake the association (like Microsoft seems to be doing with IE).
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by pflats 12y ago
>It’s fairly common for incoming Computer Science majors to ask the question, “Why do I have to learn all this math if I just want to learn to program?” Well, there's the reason you have a high drop-out rate in CS. People don't
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by pflats 12y ago
>Doing exactly that would select specifically for people that care enough about future generations and those to follow to make personal sacrifices: "you won't end up filthy rich, but your children can escape the bonds of debt.&
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by pflats 12y ago
>90% of Jeff Bezos's wealth is still in Amazon stock despite being there 20 years. With Bezos, we are talking about amounts of money so large that I (and I assume you) can't truly conceive of them. If 90% of his net worth is Am
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by pflats 12y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, 30 years seems unreasonably long to me. At that point, you might as well just require the stock be put in a trust for the CEO's heirs.
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by pflats 12y ago
Wired's quote from Joyent is, to me, rather telling: "But for Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill, Node is alive and well, despite the slower pace of development. He says that Joyent has been focused on making Node faster and more stable, r
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by pflats 12y ago
What happened here, though, is that the cop said it's fine to speed, and then his boss saw you speeding a mile later. I agree that Apple should have never approved the app in the first place. Once they let it through, there was no good
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by pflats 12y ago
I looked over the schools I applied to (over a decade ago) and it seems like the Ivies have gotten a little pickier about giving credit for AP exams. I just spot checked some of the brand-name non-Ivy schools that my friends attended and al
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by pflats 12y ago
Are you running a public-facing Apache server on the beta? I wouldn't call it disconcerting that they're focusing their resources on released versions of OS X. I'd rather they cover the other CVEs sooner and ship 10.10.0 with
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by pflats 12y ago
"High test scores often grant college credit at a public university – which means, very tangibly, needing fewer credits and tuition dollars to graduate – or a “you took a hard class” gold star (though no credit) at a private university
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by pflats 12y ago
Could sworn it was a fiver because a sawhorse looks like an upside-down V. Guess I got my etymologies confused. Thanks.

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