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by teach 16y ago
There are substantially more women than men on eHarmony. The paywall really keeps out the riff-raff.
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by teach 16y ago
I'm a musician, and have a folder full of songs in my repertoire. I used to strictly alphabetize, but now I use dividers lettered A-Z (hash table), with each letter organized alpha at first, but move-to-front whenever I perform a song (MRU)
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by teach 16y ago
Random anecdote: Back in 2002 I spent a week in a village in rural Haiti trying to get an electric generator set up. We had car trouble between villages and our resident mechanic was fixing it on the side of the road, when a woman from a s
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by teach 16y ago
Well, damn. At least I'm vindicated that HN would think it was an interesting article.
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by teach 16y ago
Also, I thought the discussion of their server setup was interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cr5zc/iama_tech_guy_fo...
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Penny Arcade uses Dropbox and Tarsnap for backups(reddit.com)
2 points by teach 16y ago|1 comments
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by teach 16y ago
I left out a lot of details so this post doesn't turn into veiled self-promotion, but I'll happily answer if any of you need more information.
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Ask HN: How much should I charge for a talk?
10 points by teach 16y ago|5 comments
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by teach 16y ago
I'm an educator; specifically a high-school teacher teaching plain old "Computer Science I". But Hacker News has helped me (and, in turn, my students) to be more self-aware, and encouraged me to work harder and take more risks than I'm nat
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by teach 16y ago
According to @kovaya, "linode's problems in Dallas are NETWORK not host related. Linodes are all OK, network is getting attention." Right now, http://twitter.com/#search?q=linode seems to be the best way to get information. My linode is u
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IPad: No product will improve your production if you're not already producing.(thelastpsychiatrist.com)
1 points by teach 16y ago|0 comments
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by teach 17y ago
Also, from personal experience: Teacher: create randomized, self-grading quizzes from a test bank of question templates; optimize the dickens out of your grading work flow; check for cheating on assignments
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by teach 17y ago
That's probably because the blog linked to is mostly just a cut-and-paste from the linked Time article ( http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458-1,00.... ). This blog post only quotes a part of page 2 of a five-page article,
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by teach 17y ago
As I recall, Perl didn't start with a machine-readable syntax description, either. But they've got one now, and Python doesn't.
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by teach 17y ago
This is an interesting article; thanks for posting it. However, I enjoyed The Last Psychiatrist's deconstruction of it more: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/dont_settle_for_the_m...
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by teach 17y ago
My school district switches to 4 ten-hour days over the summers; we save a ton of money on utilities just letting the buildings stay uncooled for three days instead of two. Nobody has suggested doing that when classes are in session, though
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by teach 17y ago
Interesting that Wikipedia only dates this from 1947; my 1964 copy of the 1935 book "Tricks and Amusements with coins, cards, string, paper and matches" by R.M. Abraham includes this problem on page 3!
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by teach 17y ago
I mentioned this video to my wife, who is a registered dietitian and a PhD in nutrition science (the RD / PhD combo is relatively rare). She said, "Yeah, I'm uncomfortable just saying 'calories in / calories out' because human metabolism i
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by teach 17y ago
I did see a pretty significant slowdown on IE7 (XP service pack 3) in the Crystal Galaxy demo in the section where there's a wall down the center of the screen and a big mass of the "bubbles" both above and below. By the end of that, it's
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by teach 17y ago
I've been a reddit lurker for 4 years, and I was one of the hordes clamoring for tags back in the day. When subreddits were introduced instead, I was a bit disappointed. But now, these many years later, I can see how the subreddits become
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by teach 17y ago
Took just over 5 seconds, but most of that was waiting for the page itself (especially the js). Here's a screenshot of the Firebug net tab: http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5097/doleaffirebug.png
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by teach 18y ago
I agree that comparing movies in different categories this way is awkward. I think the idea of getting an ordering by pairwise comparisons (instead of discrete scores for each item) is sound, but it doesn't work as well for movies as for pe
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by teach 18y ago
"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that 'the people' do not want freedom. They want bread and circuses. They want workman's compensation and fringe benefits and TV. Give up your free will, give up you
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by teach 19y ago
Yes, but the number of students in my program is higher than the other two (wealthier) schools in my district, and a lot higher than schools with comparable demographics. Even if Joe Blub teaches nearly as well as I do (and I'm willing to a
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by teach 19y ago
[Disclaimer: I've been teaching computer science at the high school level for nearly eleven years now. My B.S. is in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, and I set the curve in some of my courses.] I hesitate to dispar