teeja

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Feynman, Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering(duartes.org)
67 points by teeja 17y ago|7 comments
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by teeja 17y ago
100 years ago many people -in the US- had 10 kids in hopes that 2 or 3 would survive. Earth was far from habitable up until then. Most of us -in the US- live far better than a king did two centuries ago. (One example: look into the histor
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by teeja 17y ago
Voice-command computing. As Scotty said, "A keyboard? How quaint!" (NOT for offices!) I want to tell my wearable to look up facts, do math, remember everything I tell it to remember, and comb through ALL the news keeping my personal prefer
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by teeja 17y ago
"... what would happen if your typical big-city school system did." Education science never made it into US K-12 education. We Americans have a very fluffy concept of what education's about. We worry more about socialization than education
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by teeja 17y ago
I don't know about the rest of the web, but I don't use persistant cookies. I'd always see the 'newbie' stuff. Most sites I've seen tend to put newbie stuff on separate pages. To seem especially friendly you could use an easy-to-spot greeti
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Fiscal support services for independent artists(fracturedatlas.org)
1 points by teeja 17y ago|0 comments
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by teeja 17y ago
"Reduces the value of." That would be a value judgement (not to mention a glittering generality if applied to all geriatrics). Well let's say "usefulness". What is the value of 60 years of experience? Depends on the experiences, and the con
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by teeja 17y ago
"she hands out two artificial constraints" But that's very important. People are constantly working under ... and handing out ... artificial constraints. Getting outside the box is one of the most important lessons. Who could possibly w
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Best US students opt-out of sci/tech as ranks swell(blogs.sciencemag.org)
13 points by teeja 17y ago|4 comments
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by teeja 17y ago
The British saw what they were prepared to see. What they missed falls on them. Just below the superficial, India is one of the great nations of history. (The same applies to what new arrivals in the Americas were not prepared to see in the
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by teeja 17y ago
What I need in a reader (I haven't found it) is the ability to say: this list of subjects is what I want to read about. Period. I don't want to be the filter. In an always-on reader, I want fine-grained tunable filters. Source level isn't g
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by teeja 17y ago
"groups come in all forms and as a result have very different requirements.... The response of the service providers has compounded this problem ... they all seem to want to own the group and lock it in." I guess the title was a rhetorical
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by teeja 17y ago
From the ads I see on Craig's, the parade of "requirements" they're looking for vis-a-vis the money they're paying, I'd say yes. It looks like too many of the troops have sold themselves cheap ... (and that too many potential employers want
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by teeja 17y ago
Hope this is helpful: your front page doesn't tell me why I shouldn't just use my desktop text editor. (Or 'Stickies' on the Mac.) Why is SJ a better choice?
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by teeja 17y ago
He's really ambitious. If I had packet-collision latency that bad, I'd whip out a piece of wire. Works first time, every time. Even at 5 Hz.
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Upside & downside of Total Recall(newscientist.com)
1 points by teeja 17y ago|0 comments
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by teeja 17y ago
"I'm learning to play the guitar, I draw, I read, I think, but I don't feel I exist.As if my biggest priority in life were enjoying it, learning to live it. But I want to do something else, man. I want to have a voice." http://en.wikipedia
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by teeja 17y ago
Nonsense. You can't rate the countless dozens of things good teachers do with some phony metric. Any more than you can measure 'good' programming, 'good' science research, or any other human endeavor that requires creativity, tailoring re
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by teeja 17y ago
"I don't buy the assumption that the biggest problem is teacher quality." Me either. The biggest problem is the institution (embodied to an extent by administration.) Most teachers are qualified, hard-working. They suffer under 'overhead' l
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by teeja 17y ago
WP mentions a couple more sites doing some archiving: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocities#Closure
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by teeja 17y ago
Interesting!! Bookmarking to see what other gremlins popup!
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by teeja 17y ago
Because they get to gamble with Other People's Money.
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by teeja 17y ago
For sure. Before 'hit parades' music could sit around in a desk drawer for decades (Schubert) before being heard. Because innovation drove away audiences wanting to hear the familiar. The people who made sure that Schubert's stuff lived was
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by teeja 17y ago
"Far better to tell a kid that they're hard working." Sorry. Working smart beats working hard. EOM
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by teeja 17y ago
... vis-a-vis wiser ways of spending transportation money, considering the most good for the greatest number and reducing carbon impact? Time to take more holistic views of how these systems inter-relate, rather than focusing on narrow visi
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by teeja 17y ago
That which works well beats that which looks good. Take quantum for example: When Dirac was asked, "What’s the answer to the measurement problem?" his response was, Quantum mechanics is a provisional theory.
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by teeja 17y ago
I saw that page and went 'really'?? http://www.scribd.com/doc/15911579/Derivation-of-Fundamental... From that article, the ratio Rp to Re is about 83. But the more I look, the more answers I find. Scienceworld has 0.80+ fm for the proton,
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by teeja 17y ago
"In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors." Well, then, there's no better learning environment than computer programming! "People remember things better, longer, if they are given
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by teeja 17y ago
You either stand up for yourself in life or you get eaten for lunch. See: Wall Street.
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by teeja 17y ago
It appears that the quality of their customer service depends on the willingness of customers to stand up for themselves when they are wronged. It's people like this gentleman who've led to your highly responsive experience.

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