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by tkahn6 16y ago
The second part of that line was referring to javascript in general as compared to other languages. And I think you are insane :) I've never met a single developer (besides you apparently) who prefers the tedium of raw javascript DOM manipu
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by tkahn6 16y ago
If she learned HTML on her own volition, then yeah I think you should go with javascript to add interactivity to her creations. If you get the feeling she's interested in the computational aspect of it, definitely show her python. Another a
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by tkahn6 16y ago
idk, as a teenager who figured this out a while ago, I'd it's pretty obvious that getting a liberal arts degree unless you really are passionate about liberal arts, is a pretty meaningless endeavor. I don't know exactly at what age you thin
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by tkahn6 16y ago
What exactly are you calling BS on?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Uh, that getting good grades for the most part has little to do with intelligence or original thought? This problem is really bad in nearly all non-mathematical/scientific classes. Those are really the only two observations one needs. One
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by tkahn6 16y ago
From what I can tell, her approach to education (and life, really) is diametrically opposed to mine. For her to think that having a high GPA within a political science major would translate into any real-world success is insane. I'm happy t
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by tkahn6 16y ago
For years—all my life, really—parents, teachers, and guidance counselors had told me that if I went to a good college and did well, I would be able to find a job after graduation that would, with a little ladder-climbing, keep me comfortab
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by tkahn6 16y ago
You should start with Haskell and teach her monads. Just kidding :) If your intent is to have her get the hang of programming , javascript probably isn't the best language. There's a lot of overhead involved in running a simple program suc
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It's a very common thing to hear that eventually Chinese will become the language of commerce. I think this is wrong for a few reasons. 1. Chinese is relatively hard to learn 2. English is relatively easy to learn 3. English is part of the
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Ah, I seem to have given you more credit than you deserve. I watched the video but it's not related to any part of this discussion. Just because an analogy has been made does not make it a good one.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...
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by tkahn6 16y ago
"Real" journalism on anything of interest is cluttered with anonymous quotes and reeks of the journalist's efforts to protect his or her contacts and food budget. I think you watch too many Dateline -esque shows. Whether or not the stock
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by tkahn6 16y ago
... Whether in the hallowed halls of higher learning _or in the less-hallowed halls of a professional newsroom_, the journalist has been trained as such.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
She sounds like a cabinet maker bemoaning the Ikea-isation of furniture. No, she sounds like a hacker bemoaning the rise of learn-to-program-in-24-hours 'app' developers.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I modestly propose that you're right.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
HN has noprocrast. The default 180 minutes is good for me.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I've been 'learning to code' since I was 9 (I'm 18 now). That's cool if you want to keep a personal journal about your experiences but you should know that no one is really going to give a shit about your fourth day. Instead of focusing on
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Maybe only allow commenting to those accounts older than say, 50 days? I know I lurked here a long time before I made an account and started commenting. It would keep the trolls out and select for those users who truly value the community.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Wow. Source? That would be cool to look at.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
"I note that you latched on to the one comment here that would support your own opinion of your own relative intelligence -- the one that posited that memorization served as a proxy for the understanding of the text for students that couldn
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Wow. Riding pretty hard with the personal attacks. Anyway: You're behaving like an impetuous child if you lack the insight to see the purpose of the assignment and instead assume that the goal of it is exactly what you decide it is. Why d
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This is awesome! I will definitely be using this.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Throughout history people have condemned war. I would argue that war is still a real problem.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Well, as for those 'indictments' published in 1944 and 1962, the children of that era have caused the recession of today.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
By that measure, you might as well drop out. That's assuming that every course I take is like that. If that's what school means to you, you're really missing out on the purpose of education. the two aren't orthogonal if memorization aids
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by tkahn6 16y ago
The main point I'm trying to make is that one _can_ memorize something and not understand what it means. And one can understand something without having memorized it verbatim. If you accept this, then it follows that memorization and unders
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by tkahn6 16y ago
That's pretty cool (I'm coming in with 23 credits, so it sounds like I could be in a similar situation). I'm actually taking a philosophy class that I'm really excited about. "Knowledge and Reality" which came highly recommended to me. Mayb
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I don't think you're understanding his point. Regardless of the content or meaning of any text, you can memorize it without understanding it. Memorizing may be a proxy for understanding it (you have to read it over and over again), but it
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by tkahn6 16y ago
That's an interesting perspective. I think you may be right. The problem is that, when I've understood a passage from Shakespeare -- really understood it -- I still cannot recite it verbatim. I can tell you what it means, I could write a pa
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I've found that process of deciphering Shakespeare is as exhilarating as attempting to comprehend a new topic in mathematics. It feels like I'm using the same parts of my brain. I do really enjoy reading and understanding Shakespeare. Memo

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