pgreenspun

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by pgreenspun 7y ago
Here are some groups using the "learn to code" meme: https://girlswhocode.com/about-us/ http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Would you say that they are "alt-right"?
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by pgreenspun 7y ago
We can translate this to physics quite easily. How many of the folks posting on Facebook to celebrate this person's achievement would be willing to do even one homework assignment for a freshman physics class at the local community col
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by pgreenspun 16y ago
philg here... A reader pointed me to this response to my Weblog article. To answer Jellicle's question about "how much would it cost to take the three-day course?" ... $0. The course was free, open to the public (no unemployed people chose
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by pgreenspun 17y ago
My article did not assert that a pilot became captain at a foreign carrier after 270 hours. The article asserted that a person became captain at a foreign carrier after thousands of hours... nearly all as second in command. That is a very d
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by pgreenspun 17y ago
It depends on what you mean by PIC time. The pilot going through a professional flight training program will log all of the time after he gets his or her Private as PIC time, e.g., during instrument rating training. However, logging de jure
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by pgreenspun 17y ago
Gladwell does not explicitly say that American pilots are the best. However, he does use the U.S. major airline safety record as the standard (to which the cited foreign carriers fail to rise). U.S. major airlines conduct most of their oper
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by pgreenspun 17y ago
One of my readers pointed me to this discussion. The Martha's Vineyard reference was just a typical destination for folks at our flight school. There is no point in renting an airplane to go to Providence; it is quicker to drive! There is n