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by sopooneo 14y ago
I listened to an interesting podcast (Under the Influence?) a while back about first movers that lost out to their copycats. One famous example? Hydrox cookies. They were the original. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Just to clarify, do you mean that people won't move to Minneapolis, won't move from Minneapolis, or people all over the country generally don't want to relocate?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
The problem sometimes just gets pushed back in time by funneling unprepared high school kids into AP Calc classes. They don't have the algebra for it. I've seen this first-hand and while there are sometimes one or two kids for whom it is a
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I agree with your analysis. However I've only ever sat in on a few programmer interviews, and was lucky enough to get only the few that had already made it through several screens and were quite sharp. However, if so many people can't do Fi
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by sopooneo 14y ago
That is new information for me. Anyone have any insight on why it would be the case?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I may be missing something, but what does it mean to "hold something in a session" if not to either (1) store it in a cookie (encrypted or not) or (2) store it server-side with a token stored in a cookie pointing to it?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
If you believe the distribution of cognitive abilities to be orthogonal to race/gender, why set your a priori at 0.5? I may be misunderstanding (my stats knowledge is low) but it seems you see no reason a particular statement should be true
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by sopooneo 14y ago
If they wanted, could Pandora avoid interacting with record companies completely? That is, only buy music direct from artists? And if they did this, could they then just negotiate whatever deals they wanted with the artists? I am not implyi
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by sopooneo 14y ago
These bikes have integrated locks so that between endpoints you can attach it to any solid post and it will be safe. If you wanted to carry around your own chain-lock you could accomplish the same thing with any bike-sharing bike.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Test your theory. Teaching methods can be a crap shoot. What seems like it should work sometimes doesn't, and vice-versa. And it varies across groups. Your idea sounds like a good one.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I pretty much agree with all your points, but you are conflating several issues.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I realize not everyone has this luxury, but the market is still very hot in Boston/Cambridge around me. And I'm sure others can second that for their cities. I have at least fifty restaurants within a fifteen minute walk. I'm not trying to
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by sopooneo 14y ago
It's true. Around Boston, the bike lanes pretty much exactly designate the zone in which you are at risk for dooring.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Wouldn't this technically be gliding rather than flying? I had thought that by definition it was only flight if you could produce enough thrust to maintain velocity and altitude in still air.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
In my experience teaching science and math, I've found this sort of analogy to be of limitted utility. It is often possible to get a whole class on board with the story and understanding the "rules" and able to come to the right conclusions
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Or maybe direction and acceleration, ala asteroids?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Someone close to me went to the "honors college" inside a large state university. From her accounts, it was the real thing.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I know a lot of people argue against mixing markup and styling. As one of those, and since you seem well informed, how do you feel about the various css frameworks like bootstrap where the class names are essentially style descriptions?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
It's going to happen. Even with full care and diligence there will still be some products shipped with security flaws. It is not ethical to give the company no heads up, not even anonymously.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I'm sure most profitable companies were formed to solve a problem. But a few absurdly successful ones don't really fit that description. You can shoehorn them in, but it seems like a stretch to explain the "pain point" facebook solved. Inst
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Yes. In the real world finding the right question is much harder than finding the right answer.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
But couldn't knowledge of this fact by your potential customers make them wary of giving you much business, thus canceling out your advantage?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
A recovering non-coder?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I agree, and that was the first thought I had. However, I have found that when people act in bizarre ways, it is sometimes because they are crazy, unintelligent, or ignorant. But much more often it is because they know something you don't k
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Absolutely. I hate it when otherwise compelling articles fail to even raise a screamingly obvious question, much less answer it. The cynical me wonders if it is because the writers actually do know the answer, and it somehow weakens or di
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by sopooneo 14y ago
So perhaps this article serves the function of helping consumers make that decision.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Yes. The huge thing that almost all discussions about online education miss or deny is how much of teaching is motivating students. This is true to varying extents across the socioeconomic spectrum. I believe we as humans are hard wired t
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I grew up in a poor rural area where lots of people (including lots of wonderful families) had broken cars in their yards. In case anyone is baffled by this, the main reason is that they can be mined for spare parts--for you or your neighbo
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by sopooneo 14y ago
"[Millenials have] seen home prices collapse unexpectedly, leaving millions of people with immense debts." I have to quibble with this. Regardless of the resale value of your home, the balance on your mortgage is the same.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
The big question I almost never see addressed: Why would true REST be worth pursuing anyway? What's so good about it over other ways of setting up APIs? If I recall correctly, Fielding himself says that it may be detrimental to an individ

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