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by teach 14y ago
I included the example that I did because betterunix's comment included two trigger phrases for me: "big trouble if they skip class" and "produce compliant people". I've been teaching CS for more than 15 years; the brilliant but unconventio
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by teach 14y ago
I'm not tokenadult, but I can offer my two cents. Assuming they're being paid "enough", paying teachers more does almost nothing to improve motivation or performance. There are quite a few studies about this, and my own experience bears tha
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by teach 14y ago
I disagree. We teachers have plenty of time to properly assess student work. But we also have to give accurate, consistent and fair grades and usually written feedback as well, and that's what usually takes forever. An hour a day with 30
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by teach 14y ago
I think the real problem is that nobody has any good metrics that will work 1) cheaply enough and 2) at scale. Give me 25 students and two hours, and I can write a paragraph for each kid very accurately detailing their strengths and weakn
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by teach 14y ago
You don't have 160 students at once. You have 30 students for an hour at a time, then 30 more, six times a day. (Or something similar.)
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by teach 14y ago
"Students in America are routinely published for any attempt to learn outside the confines of a narrow curriculum." As a public school teacher, I strongly disagree with your opinion. I suspect your opinion has been formed based on a relativ
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by teach 14y ago
I'm on a desktop machine. Also using a 22-inch monitor at 1680x1050. I do not maximize my browser window (mybrowserinfo.com tells me my browser dimensions are currently 1112 x 945). The font size in question looks great to me. I should add
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by teach 14y ago
It is a shame. As it stands now, the system "punishes" rule followers who leave the original, uninteresting title and thereby get no traction. But those who rewrite the title to something more obviously relevant get decent views even if the
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by teach 14y ago
"How did this even get started?" Well, the Hacker News guidelines[1] say: > Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. This rule is frequently violated, because a lot of the times the original title is bad. So s
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by teach 14y ago
A good headline is pretty much 'link bait' by definition. If a feature writer mistakenly wrote a terrible headline like yours, I would expect the newspaper editor to fix it before going to press.
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by teach 14y ago
This is really cool. I suspect a lot of people didn't get far enough to actually try anything; it took a lot of clicks to start the first note. A suggestion: don't vanish the instructions once the song appears! Once I saw the song loading w
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by teach 14y ago
I agree. But one man's "freedom fighter" is another man's "terrorist". It just depends what side you're on.
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by teach 14y ago
"For every bra a woman buys, she probably buys at least 5 pairs of panties." I beg to differ. I'm a man, and have never bought either bra or panties for my wife, but I have watched at least 100 hours of QVC and HSN (competitor home shoppi
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by teach 14y ago
I mean "rarely occurs" in the sense that folks rarely post things with really long lines. Most of us have better sense than that.
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by teach 14y ago
This is an old, well-known issue. It just rarely occurs.
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by teach 14y ago
Given their respective install bases, I think Android should be the default OS for J. Random Average. I teach in a public school, and a lot of my students have Android phones. The plurality of them have the Samsung Galaxy S III, actually.
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by teach 14y ago
Good idea but wouldn't work for me since I don't lecture anymore.
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by teach 14y ago
I'm a high school computer science teacher, and this is a WONDERFUL idea. I'm totally going to steal it and create a few assignments based on the concept.
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by teach 14y ago
Oh, I'm sure they still do. But it's not "trending". That is, searches haven't noticeably increased / changed from previous years.
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by teach 14y ago
This reasoning only makes since if most porn sites are trying to avoid being blocked. I can't imagine why this would be so.
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by teach 14y ago
It seems like a pretty broad brush to equate "people with workplace filters" with "corporate types". For example, I'm a guy with a CS degree who is a high school teacher. Does that make me a "corporate type"?
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by teach 14y ago
I'm not SafeSituation, but the demos don't render for me. Presumably that's a WebGL issue. (Google Chrome 23.0.1271.95 on Ubuntu 12.10) Pointer Lock seems to work fine.
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What happened to the "More" link on saved stories?
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by teach 14y ago
What happened to the "More" link on saved stories? I can only see the first page.
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by teach 14y ago
After reading just the title, I was worried. After reading the article, I'm much more optimistic. Figuring out how to scale up tutoring and "why doesn't this code work" might actually make a difference. I'm a high school computer science te
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by teach 14y ago
I'm quite interested, but not interested enough to "sign up for early access". Intend to revisit the site later (if I remember) once it's launched for real.
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by teach 14y ago
I have a friend who works for Northrop Grumman, and he just completed a $500 million project he described as "relatively small".
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by teach 14y ago
Does sprunge work for non-textual data?
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by teach 14y ago
Not stupidity, necessarily. Just laziness.
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by teach 14y ago
I've always like this quote: "Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly." - Spencer W. Kimball Cursing is like salt: judicious use can improve a well-made dish, but overuse doesn't make bad food into good.

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