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811.
by shantly 7y ago
If you're self-pacing then you don't have to waste time covering material you've already mastered or banging your head against material you're not ready for yet because you're missing fundamentals. If you're mu
812.
by shantly 7y ago
Very small class sizes make a huge difference. Homeschooling (usually) involves a very small effective class size. Lessons can be very carefully tailored, the teacher can change the course of a lesson entirely on a dime if the kid or small
813.
by shantly 7y ago
Their sets have always been expensive, though my older (late 80s through late 90s) ones were much bigger for a comparable price (with similar or smaller part counts—they love putting hundreds of tiny little pieces for really fiddly constr
814.
by shantly 7y ago
I'm pretty sure a lot of the "improvements" in price attributed to international trade over the last ~4 decades have more to do with the lowest end of the current product range simply not existing before, i.e. the worst ver
815.
by shantly 7y ago
> My statement was definitely a reach, but I think there is a bunch of space in the life of an early startup for lack of highly available services. I think there's room for a lot fewer 9s for most businesses generally, provided you
816.
by shantly 7y ago
Old 90s Windows programs are great. Downright relaxing after the "WTF is interactive and what's content?" mess of "modern" UI. Calibre's not that. Some poster upthread got it right by comparing Calibre to som
817.
by shantly 7y ago
You got hit with downvotes, but your (sarcastic) reaction is, as intended, spot on for the kind of thing no-one wants to risk hearing if they try to change the way higher degrees work in education. That the whole thing is an (expensive!) lo
818.
by shantly 7y ago
Teachers' master's degrees are, in effect, a way to divert money from (mostly) teachers and (a little bit, some places) school districts to universities for no actual benefit, so that's great. Hope they manage to keep it up a
819.
by shantly 7y ago
> I’d love it if developers would be willing to collaborate using a dedicated project management tool and leave the bug tracker for bugs, but the chances of that happening voluntarily are nil. You gotta go where everyone else already is.
820.
by shantly 7y ago
It is vital to have someone close enough to the project that the team trusts them to see their honest opinions about progress and blockers, including non-bullshit pointing of tasks, who is the point person for communicating progress to mana
821.
by shantly 7y ago
I'd say that attempting to use the same tool to help a team communicate with one another and to communicate with management or stakeholders who aren't very close to the project (involved daily near the ground level) is essential
822.
by shantly 7y ago
Huh. I do the opposite—I order meat out (not always, but sometimes) and rarely cook it at home. I can and every now and then do make good dishes with meat, but find it fussy, messy, and very expensive if you screw it up. Plus I have tro
823.
by shantly 7y ago
Seriously, the GP comment makes me wish I had a job to offer, not just due to sympathy but because any 18-year-old who is even sort of managing to tackle that problem and also knows that lack of VC is a serious red flag is probably worth
824.
by shantly 7y ago
God, at 18—or hell, at 22— showing the fuck up and not seeming entirely incompetent is a big deal. Show up, be engaged, do both consistently, and anyone who's not a total piece of crap will be all over giving you more responsibility a
825.
by shantly 7y ago
Sure, I get that, but you're not gonna replace all the incompetent people in education with competent ones just by making the relevant degree programs tougher. That's a lot of people. Pay would have to go up, probably quite a bi
826.
by shantly 7y ago
Dunno, they all do it though. I know school stats report the % of teachers with higher degrees and of course they all want those percentages to be higher. Possibly there are state incentives. Mostly it's just a bunch of people doing du
827.
by shantly 7y ago
School district controls ours but this year they were all "the bad news is ya'll got sick too much so the rates are going up and deductible's worse, the good news is it's only going up 10% this year and, oh, probably for
828.
by shantly 7y ago
> Ultimately, teaching education, even graduate education, is not difficult and mostly a joke, which is what is reflected in their salaries. Flip side: not enough people would put up with going through a "serious" teacher ed pr
829.
by shantly 7y ago
These days especially, get ready to get to know kids then have them not show up one day because they killed themselves. Or have one you taught a while back do the same when they're moved up a couple grades. A couple not show up because
830.
by shantly 7y ago
> From quit rates, to pay, to conditions, and beyond, but ignores the obvious which is that private pay and private conditions are largely pinned to be just above public salaries and conditions Most of the private schools around here pay
831.
by shantly 7y ago
My wife's about to hit a wall on pay increases at right at $40k if she doesn't get a master's degree. Never get another real raise, just sub-inflation bumps every year. With quite a damn while left until retirement. Mind, the
832.
by shantly 7y ago
Depends on the grade and subject. Some teachers have a whole lot more grading to do than others. And some grading or planning is slower-going than others. Also some schools are better about keeping time clear during the day for teachers to
833.
by shantly 7y ago
My wife makes under $40k after about 10 years. Health benefits blow, too. I'd love if the unions around here were some of those mean ol' ones who get teachers way more than they deserve or whatever. The one here can't even ke
834.
by shantly 7y ago
Moreover, if they are concerned about bandwidth they could definitely transmit these data with less than the ~2.2KB/request it’s taking. Fixed width integers, anyone? No parsing overhead, even. And that’s without getting fancy. Maybe s
835.
by shantly 7y ago
Detroit-style and some others (I think there's a thin crust square shape that gets claimed by various other midwestern cities?) are already rectangular.
836.
by shantly 7y ago
Depends on the style, the consistency of the sauce, and the dough, how much you can get use without making a mess. That looks way on the high side to me, though their sauce might be very dry (thick) which might let them get away with it. No
837.
by shantly 7y ago
> For example, that's why you still see - in 2019 - manual toll booth workers sitting in glass boxes in NY instead of automated tolls like every other state has. Does Kansas have the same protections? Plenty of humans in booths on t
838.
by shantly 7y ago
Massive pools of data, especially about people, being all of 1) hugely valuable to AI, 2) very, very hard to bootstrap without massive amounts of money (so, a strong moat to competition), and 3) basically the Stasi on steroids but oh don&#x
839.
by shantly 7y ago
I never have any that are even half-decent. Plenty for things that aren't businesses. Sometimes I act on those but they don't make me money. None for businesses. When I think I have one it always turns out there are a few players
840.
by shantly 7y ago
Gives iPhone to wife/kid sorry I don't have one I just borrow my wife/kid's when I need it, you can buy me one if you want.

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