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by rbrogan 12y ago
Perhaps a good approach would be to assume a format is compromised as it is, but still focus on doing the best possible job of testing students. It should be possible to gear things such that plagiarism does not really do enough to be worth
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Aristotelian Virtue in the World of Software(rbrogan.github.io)
3 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Nice article. I expect that there will be more and more acceptance that we cannot always be rational, and I expect there will be more and more products that help us to leverage our finite willpower to better make rational decisions. I think
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Reinvent What You Have Not Seen(rbrogan.github.io)
1 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
IMO, art involves intention and conveys something. I do not know what to call what it conveys, but it comes from the artist. It is not accidental. So, a piece of software can be beautiful but not art. But software (e.g. games) can convey so
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What Good Does Your Software Do?(rbrogan.github.io)
1 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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The Expanding Bureaucracy(rbrogan.github.io)
2 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
He is featured in this nice documentary about indie games along with a couple of different development teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq5HRdTyKUs
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Personally, I can also recommend Philip Turetzky's Time for those interested in the question "What is Time?" from a philosophical (rather than a physical) POV. The book is a survey of thinking about Time from the ancient Gree
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Everyone knew everything about everything they do then AI would be easy.
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by rbrogan 12y ago
If no one says anything, then is there any motivation for it to get any better? Is the article is totally wrong or can it be translated into a problem statement whose solution is an improvement? IMO, it is equivalent to a user complaint abo
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Energizing Code; Evolution and Devolution(rbrogan.github.io)
2 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
That is not obvious (no offense). When I think of "the world", I also think about things beyond "social human behavior". For instance, you could ask how contact with alien life could affect how we use this planet Earth (
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Be Purposefully Stupid(rbrogan.github.io)
26 points by rbrogan 12y ago|7 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Is there anything for which you cannot ask a similar question of the form: Why does xyz exist? Why are things not just [this simpler thing]? For those types of questions, I imagine one would answer: because if it were not so then things wou
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by rbrogan 12y ago
If there were aliens that understood the "hailing message" and did not respond, and if we were to assume there was a message that would get a response, then how to figure that out? How to get better at sending messages when gettin
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by rbrogan 12y ago
A lot of nice information in the article. I think people can be more creative than they realize if they (1) legitimize associative thinking (this is what I translate "being uninhibited" to mean) and (2) insist that they have a bas
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by rbrogan 12y ago
I am optimistic as well. I have dealt with many of the problems in the article and developed my own mental tech to solve them (mostly around personal organization and self-discipline). I think it is better assume that problems do have a sol
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Make More Work for Yourself, in Order to Have Less(rbrogan.github.io)
1 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Any guesses as to why this would be so? My guess is that people thought they were reading faster at fewer words per line because there was less effort involved. If it were so, I wonder what it should mean for usability? Should you engineer
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by rbrogan 12y ago
I also have a dumb question: Where is "AI" in our software development toolchains? Intellisense comes to mind. Compiler optimizations also come to mind. What more is coming or is already out there? Lately, I find myself thinking m
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by rbrogan 12y ago
"The fact that the students appeared to internalize the false events to the extent that they did highlights the fundamental malleability of memory" Is it true that the memories themselves are false or is it the remembering process
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Wondering if Google had always expected this and Glass was a long-term strategic move or if this was unexpected and should be considered a blunder.
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You Are More Intelligent Than You Know(rbrogan.github.io)
1 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve y
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Nice response, and I agree with a lot of it. Particularly, I think this is key: "This is why good software developers hate working in these places. It would be like a fine watch craftsman going to work on the Timex digital watch assemb
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by rbrogan 12y ago
That is correct, in the abstract. There can be programs written in both C and Java that do the same thing. The question is then: if people are writing programs in Java, what is the cause, what is making that happen?
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What Made OO Be Successful(rbrogan.github.io)
52 points by rbrogan 12y ago|69 comments
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To Evolve Your Code, Let Names Change(rbrogan.github.io)
3 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments
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A Strategy for Getting Projects Done(rbrogan.github.io)
1 points by rbrogan 12y ago|0 comments

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