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by teach 14y ago
I know you're ranting to the world at large, but I am not "going nuts over scaling issues". All my websites are static HTML files. I regenerate them as needed using custom Python code and my "databases", which are text files in JSON. I ha
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by teach 14y ago
I think if you're worried about whether or not you use modulo to calculate alternating table rows (and you don't work for Facebook), then you're almost certainly optimizing prematurely.
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by teach 14y ago
"Barefoot" running is much easier on the knees. You land differently and thus avoid the sudden jolting stops.
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by teach 14y ago
In my neighborhood, it's much harder to bike a long enough distance for a good exercise. You can get a much better workout using a smaller "track" when running. Running isn't super bad for you. You need medium impact to build bone density,
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by teach 14y ago
Very insightful. I don't think I've seen this list all in one place before.
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by teach 14y ago
It doesn't seem to be in the News Guidelines any longer, but the prevailing opinion on HN is that comments that simply say "I agree" or the like: 1) Add nothing to the conversation. Just upvote if you agree; also commenting to that effect a
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by teach 14y ago
First, the title should be changed. The source article is titled "Score One for the Robo-Tutors" or "Machine Learning: Score One for the Robo-Tutors", not "Students Learn as Well from Software as from Live Teachers". Secondly, this is an in
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by teach 14y ago
Okay, so I read the entire report. I'd love to see the standard deviation for the "minutes worked per day" figure. I'd bet that it is high. I've worked in public education for fifteen years, and I know almost no teachers who work as little
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by teach 14y ago
I'm not sure I believe that number. I guess some super highly-paid regions are throwing off the average. Starting teacher salary in my district is $42,000 per year for a 187-day contract. Assuming the teachers only work 7 hours a day (which
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by teach 14y ago
Is that 7K more than the average wage of a person with a bachelor's degree? Or just the average person? I suspect the two numbers are not the same.
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by teach 14y ago
The schematics are available; they're just not linked well on the site.
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by teach 14y ago
I think it's a shame that this is targetted at the hacker-musician community, but the development environment is almost Windows only. (Written in C#, partially working under Mono on OS X, not tested under Linux.) I suspect the vast majority
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by teach 14y ago
It's a 2TB drive doing a full fsck each time, though I don't know why.
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by teach 14y ago
I have students that have been programming (in Java) for two years and have coded simple arcade games from scratch. These same students will spend more than five minutes unsuccessfully trying to get a single CodeCademy exercise to work. (I
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by teach 14y ago
The core problem is what you've identified in your blog. You assignments don't explain many core concepts that students struggle with, they move WAY too quickly through concepts, and there's no coherent sequence. For example, in the middle
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by teach 14y ago
I've had a couple dozen students working through many of the CodeCademy programs this semester as an experiment. And most of the Javascript lessons currently on the site are just barely above mediocre.
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by teach 14y ago
It's not common sense, in my experience. Most programmers who have tried to teach code at all have done so to someone with extraordinary aptitude (i.e. like themselves).
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by teach 14y ago
In general this is very cool. Some constructive criticism: 1) I was really expecting an actual programming language instead of "just" HTML/CSS. 2) When watching some of the CSS demos, the switch back and forth between the HTML tab and the
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by teach 14y ago
I wish my Ubuntu desktop booted in 40 seconds. Thanks to btrfs, a reboot is a 30-minute affair.
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by teach 15y ago
Is it known that Valve employees frequent HN? I'm not sure why this story is here.
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by teach 15y ago
My biggest new-Gmail-design pet-peeve is that the Display Density setting is only respected if your browser window is wide enough. I prefer the "Comfortable" setting. I have a 22" monitor at 1680x1050, but I don't have my browser window m
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"If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."(prgmr.com)
217 points by teach 15y ago|92 comments
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by teach 15y ago
What's wrong with striving for a more 'mouse-free environment'? And what about 'tmux and why it came about' is missing from the book, in your opinion?
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by teach 15y ago
The author of the OP has written two books for teaching children (aged 7-10 or so) to code by having them type in or copy completed code, so this tutorial just continues in his typical style.
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by teach 15y ago
I disagree. The sugar question is settled in nutrition science. Sugar that doesn't occur naturally in food is pretty bad for you. But underqualified people have different opinions and get a disproportionate amount of face time on media. I
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by teach 15y ago
The word 'dietitian' is protected similarly in the United States, and the word 'nutritionist' is similarly unprotected.
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by teach 15y ago
I'll admit that I'm biased, because my wife has a PhD in nutrition (as well as being a registered dietitian), but my best friend from high school is now an MD, and my wife knows more about nutrition and its effect on the body than he does.
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by teach 15y ago
I've never heard of Alan Aragon, but he claims to have a master's degree in nutrition. That's a HELL of a lot more nutrition training than your average MD gets. I'm sure both have tons of post-degree self-study in nutrition, and that's virt
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by teach 15y ago
Yeah, it seems we're expert lurkers. I've been here more than 4.5 years and have less than 350 karma. I feel pretty confident about my downvoting skills, but I've never been allowed to use them.
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by teach 15y ago
"Although vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin and is excreted in the urine, doses of pyridoxine in excess of the RDI over long periods of time can result in painful and ultimately irreversible neurological problems."

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