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by teach 15y ago
I'm curious why she was locked out. I'm a LastPass user and the only thing I noticed is that my Chrome browser plugin had logged me out. I was able to log in with no problems, though, and the plugin continued to autofill websites as usual.
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by teach 16y ago
The math books by the late John Saxon are a superb example of keeping teaching and practicing better connected. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any large public schools (in my area, anyway) that use them.
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by teach 16y ago
"Because each of these sugars ends up as glucose and fructose in our guts, our bodies react the same way to both, and the physiological effects are identical." I find this statement, as written, to be almost willfully misleading. In sucrose
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by teach 16y ago
I usually show them a recursive Towers of Hanoi solver. It's alarmingly simple (fewer than 10 LOC) and most of them can't even imagine how to write it iteratively. I tell them that recursive code is rarely better than iterative code, but
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by teach 16y ago
It's funny. I've JUST finished spending a week or so on recursion with my students. The FIRST thing I did was have the entire class repeat after me: "Recursion isn't hard. It's just different." And I've been teaching CS at the high-school l
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by teach 16y ago
How I wish I had a working 1541 disk drive! I've got scores of programs on floppy disk that I wrote when I was 11-14 years old that I'd love to read again. I doubt the disks are still readable, though. They haven't always exactly been store
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by teach 16y ago
The GPL does not require you to make your software available free of charge. It merely states that if someone purchases software from you, that you must also provide the source code upon request.
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by teach 16y ago
Making a NES emulator in flash is a cool hack. What's not cool is releasing an "app" that's just a link to a website with 1000+ copyrighted games. In fact, many of the games aren't even abandonware, because they're available for sale throug
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by teach 16y ago
I also have U-verse here in Austin. It isn't great, and the DVR is pretty sad compared to Tivo, but it beats the PANTS off Time Warner cable. The ability to record 4 shows simultaneously is killer.
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by teach 16y ago
I think this is the key issue for me. My wife is a PhD but admits that she can't spell. However, she has others look over any important documents or emails before sending them out. Someone who won't do this for something as important as a j
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by teach 16y ago
At my workplace, the workstations are locked down so much that Dropbox can't be installed. This might be a godsend for me.
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by teach 16y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The Google blog post says that they inserted 100 honeypots into Google. Then it says "within a couple weeks of starting this experiment, our inserted results started appearing in Bing." Wh
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by teach 16y ago
Okay, here are the basics. Sorry for the delayed response; I'm used to reddit with its handy orangered envelope.... For the past dozen years, I've taught in a very traditional way. I'd give a lecture on a programming concept, then assign s
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by teach 16y ago
I teach computer science at the high school level. Inspired by Dr. Sheldon, I switched my classes to use points instead of traditional grades, but I went further than he has. I'm only halfway through the year, but so far things are very po
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by teach 16y ago
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Am I the only one that remembers this EXACT feature on Google about a year ago? You had to be logged in to iGoogle, and each search result had a small [X] to the right of it that would appear on hover.
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by teach 16y ago
Perhaps you only read the first half of the article? He lists quite a few specific things you can do to help in three major categories. Also, as a high school CS teacher who does teach an intro video game programming course, people do ne
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by teach 16y ago
This is a great article; thanks for posting it.
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by teach 16y ago
I hope you're prepared to pay quite a bit more for your schooling, then. My wife is a non-tenure-track PhD and she spends probably 6 hours preparing for each one-hour lecture. She must give eight unique lectures per week. That's 48 hours
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by teach 16y ago
I'm a CS teacher, and at first, when I give code to students for them to type in / modify, I make it a screenshot just so they CAN'T copy and paste. It takes me quite a bit more time vs. just typing the code and putting up a link, but I re
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by teach 16y ago
Either of you install it yet?
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by teach 16y ago
Except the part where they write "All of the games [in the bundle] work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux." If Braid isn't available for Linux, that'd be a deal-breaker for me and probably for a lot of the Linux users buying this bundle.
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by teach 16y ago
Today, I learned that "NOFI" means "no flame intended". That is, "I'm critiquing, but I do not intend any offense."
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by teach 16y ago
Probably, but our district tech support staff is way too understaffed: just downloading and installing Python 2.6 (which I use to teach parts of the class) takes a couple of months lead-time. Even single-user Dropbox isn't supported on cam
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by teach 16y ago
I've definitely thought about it. However, several units in the year involve filetypes that are particularly poorly suited to git: GameMaker, NeverWinter Nights modules, and Unity 3D all work with large, opaque binary assets.
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by teach 16y ago
Ditto. I'd love to use a shared Dropbox for my videogame programming students to collaborate on group projects, but my total yearly budget is $1000. Sigh.
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by teach 16y ago
Anyone know if either version of this scanner would work under Linux?
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by teach 16y ago
So, let's say that I'm ssh'ed into a headless Linux box (my linode). How can I run NetSurf? I spend most of my day ssh'ed into one box or another, writing code in vim, so being able to run NetSurf would be a huge improvement over links,
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by teach 16y ago
I have, on occasion, voted up a link on HN without clicking through iff I have already read the article in question on, say, reddit. (I mouseover to make sure it's the same URL, though, and not just title and domain.)
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by teach 16y ago
But their mothers are. Edit: Sorry, I misread the GP comment. I'm a high school teacher, so I automatically thought of graduating (HS) seniors sending out thank you notes to those who'd sent a gift.
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by teach 16y ago
I do understand that pressure to "make it work". But it totally wasn't there for either my wife or I. I was matched with over 300 women during the 3 months that I was enrolled, and my (now) wife was in grad school finishing her dissertati

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