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by pmb 15y ago
CS Academia - young professors and postdocs - http://salaryshare.me/aa134b0ded8013e4d211e1abdc5eb8ac
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by pmb 16y ago
Because they are doing something that has never been done before. The unknown is exactly that - unknown. You can make guesses, but they will never be anything but guesses until the problem has been solved a few times. However, once a prob
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Don't Give Up on the Humans(rushkoff.com)
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by pmb 16y ago
When giving a high-five, watch the other person's elbow and not their hand.
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by pmb 16y ago
I'll echo this comment and offer to pass along any job opportunities to the students I teach (CS at Manhattan College in NYC).
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by pmb 16y ago
See the link that started this whole conversation. It has pretty good data, the only questionable part was the fact that their nuclear safety data involved taking self-reported fatalities from the USSR. Coal is far worse than nuclear by ev
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by pmb 16y ago
Not really. The official report used the numbers self reported by the USSR (not known for its bureaucratic honesty) and TORCH (The Other Report on CHernobyl) was funded by the environmental movement. So we can lower bound the deaths by 4,
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by pmb 16y ago
College career fairs.
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by pmb 16y ago
It speeds up when it hits the paddle. If you do this exercise, make sure to actually time yourself, rather than guesstimate it afterwards - time slips away when you program.
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by pmb 16y ago
http://www.manhattan.edu -- Manhattan College
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by pmb 16y ago
38 for arkanoid. The bubble game was 26.
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by pmb 16y ago
Both I and they used NetBeans.
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by pmb 16y ago
Free upgrade sounds fine - when were these offered, and how would a person take advantage? I have one of the aforementioned permanent accounts (on jervis, even) and if migrating to a new server means that my site is less likely to fall ove
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by pmb 16y ago
You mean some sort of administration that would give people money to work on projects? Like a Work Projects Administration? Sorry, Roosevelt did that, but nowadays I am pretty sure it would be called socialism.
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by pmb 16y ago
robots.txt disallows (or did until recently) only "/search". The results shown have "/Search" in the url. Bing screwed up.
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by pmb 16y ago
Students are not customers. They are products.
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by pmb 16y ago
Only if a teacher's pay or reward depends on the grade they give their students. Otherwise, it is treating teachers like professionals who worked hard to get where they are.
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by pmb 16y ago
How recently? Complexity theory seems to lead practice by around a decade...
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by pmb 16y ago
The unions? That's your bad guy here? Teachers are poorly-paid and looked-down-upon in our society and you are blaming the only organization which sticks up for them? The unions suck, certainly, but firing teachers only works if there is
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by pmb 16y ago
Not at all - Google is defecting, but is offering to cease defecting under certain conditions. It's only continuous if Facebook keeps being a jerk.
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by pmb 16y ago
Openness also doesn't mean being a sucker. Share and share-alike provides an optimal solution to the iterated prisoner's dilemma of openness.
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by pmb 16y ago
"Naive Set Theory" by Halmos is a true gem, and readable, too.
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by pmb 16y ago
Not true. Income in the bottom 3 quartiles has remained constant or fallen slightly (adjusted for inflation) since the 1970s. We have better tech, but we have also had the rich getting much much richer.
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by pmb 16y ago
It takes hundreds of pages to get going. Then it goes wonderfully. It't not easy to read, but it is worth it.
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by pmb 16y ago
And yet, I am confused. I read lots of right-wing op-eds and left-wing op-eds. Why would this particular more-left-than-right op-ed deserve to be treated differently?
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by pmb 16y ago
Your model of how the world works seems contradictory to the parent's model. In order to decide which model works better in the real world, we can see which more accurately reflects things today. Netherlands: cheapest rates, entrenched inc
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by pmb 16y ago
Not at all. 95% of references go unchecked, which allows people to just make crap up. [1] 1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1080
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by pmb 16y ago
Logo worked for me. If you want to teach a "real" language (Logo is practically a LISP! It's real!) then Python has a turtle module.
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by pmb 16y ago
Property taxes. Income tax and sales tax has had to rise in response. Unless the income tax rate is highly progressive, the net effect is a more regressive tax system.
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by pmb 16y ago
States can't run a deficit. Money in can never be greater than money out.

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