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by ronaldx 13y ago
I just had a flashback to programming a Rubik's cube solver in QBASIC 15+ years ago. It's nice to see some progression in what's considered introductory: very good stuff, well done :)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Please, you need to study statistics again. Check the graph in the parent article. Zoom into any 17 year period between -3000 and 1900 and it will "look flat", and during many 17 year periods the temperature temporarily went up, b
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If you are an interviewer, then you should be pleased - he's ruling himself out. Win-win.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
No, I don't believe you are correct: a calculator can represent sqrt(2) as sqrt(2), just the same as we can on paper (perhaps you are calling this an algebraic representation). In fact, I'm confident that Casio - probably the mark
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I recall that most people can manage 4 hours of intense concentration per day. If you are doing 5 hours of homework per night (after a full day of school), memorization is more effective at completing the workload - since you don't hav
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A current-generation Casio scientific handles this well - the display shows exact numbers such as 1+√(2) which suggest it's doing the precise calculation where reasonable.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
As a teacher, I far prefer to have parents who are involved in their kids' education, than the parents who are not involved. There's a correlation between affluence and parent involvement, yes, but there's a stronger correlat
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Healthy life expectancy is only 75.0 max (in Japan) If we expected to live much longer than that, we might be more cautious of accidents. If you only have ~10-50 years to live, you might be prepared to take some small risks to save time: cr
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If you want to learn computer science more thoroughly, why don't you take a university-level course? You can continue freelancing to pay your way through it. That would give you broad-ranging skills and a good qualification to present
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Duplicated comments are made dead. With showdead you can see the (dead) duplicate.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I think this is an unreasonable judgement, which only reflects the fact that the OP has made different life decisions than you have. Bringing your family stability is a noble cause, but OP's children get to experience a breadth of cult
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by ronaldx 13y ago
There's a whole layer of difficulty between remote working-from-home and remote working-while-travelling. A good office provides a suitable environment for almost anyone to work in. This will cover a lot of seemingly minor stuff - a d
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Nonetheless, blind swaps are generally suspicious, and there could be a genetically programmed heuristic for humans to undervalue them.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Fair point; I have set a minimum point size set which also reduces the characters per line. Regarding black on dark grey: yes, far preferable to black on white.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It would be more accurate to say that PR gives more appropriate influence to third parties. It's true to say that political power/influence is not generally proportional to parliamentary party size, but is not specific to PR. For
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I eventually noticed that this article practices what it preaches, after reading a few sections. The sentence-spacing is wider than the word-spacing. I found it easy to read fluently all the way down (this is moderately unusual for me) - wi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
There's an obvious difference: people who have existing minimum wage jobs (your over fifties) likely deserve a pay raise and have the skills and experience and value to justify it. This is a great policy for most people who are in mi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> should we really worry about the 0.01% outlier 1. Yes, this is sometimes known as discrimination. 2. Yes, you have no way of knowing the size of the market if you are excluding them - this may be disguising a group that's signific
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Change some ingredients and A/B test them.
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A light, progressive framework at Last.fm(paulrhayes.com)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
or generate a (uniform) random direction from the centre of the circle.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/intelligence_analyst_salary.htm
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Since the challenge is essentially a marketing tool, I'm not sure posting details on a blog would undermine very much...
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This causes frequent but barely-traceable errors in math classrooms, in my experience.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I am not sure but I think you are trying to say: We should not forget that professionals have a lot more advantages than the working poor. Comparing them in this way is useful, but may hide the serious problems and lack of opportunity that
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I hate printing paper that says "Tutor available" with my name and credentials on it. Are you willing to take a 40% cut in your rate for someone to do this for you? I think this illustrates nicely why the market is a graveyar
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> A negative is an indication of a bot activity or some other oddity that needs attention. Feel free to support that transparently, but the question is why would you want to do that. Why?: It's very bad UX to say to a human "
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The offer made by Glasgow to the student is guaranteed, as long as the student meets the conditions of the offer: typically a grade-based offer. According to the original article, the student didn't meet the conditions of the offer. Th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I think we are seeing a restructure of skilled work generally as technology becomes able to do portions of skilled work. For example, look at education. Interestingly, muscle jobs are more-or-less immune as they have already been automated
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This argument is a good way of justifying systematic incompetence. If you claim that an individual was just doing their job, their superior should be held responsible for creating that job (up to and particularly including the CEO).

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