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by zarify 12y ago
I went through a Montessori school until year 7, and I think it was very good for me, although I'm not sure how well it would have suited high school for me (the school I was at offered until year 12 but there were very few students wh
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by zarify 12y ago
Well I guess talking to people and telling them you're writing an article about "The Secret Life of Passwords" is more novel than giving them a call pretending to be from their bank or telco. I dearly hope that those people w
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by zarify 12y ago
Kind of sucks if you're trying to design something that's usable with a mouse and with touch though. Plenty of interfaces out there that don't take into account that there's no hover state for a finger.
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by zarify 12y ago
If they made it sound more complicated then it'd be harder to tie a 'one weird trick' style headline to it ;P
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by zarify 12y ago
All the instances of these that I've seen rely on social engineering to do their thing though (we had a teacher at my school fall victim to one recently, which is moderately entertaining [when you have up to date backups] when you have
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by zarify 12y ago
This was the thing that immediately leapt out at me as well, though I imagine you wouldn't just leave The Machine to manage things forever more, you'd use it as a first responder and then analyse and patch the vulnerability proper
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by zarify 12y ago
I came pretty close to choking (whilst home alone) as a young kid when I thought it'd be a great idea to try to swallow a peach pip. I like to think I'm not that dumb now, but as a kid I did some really idiotic things that serious
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by zarify 12y ago
That's probably the first practical use of the paired doodle thing they demoed that I've seen. I wonder if that works independently of the phone, or if it's done via phone bluetooth.
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by zarify 12y ago
Absolutely on naming. I read the article and thought that Letters sounded like a good game so I figured I'd go get it. I went to the app store, searched for 'Letters' and got a million early childhood apps returned (actually
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by zarify 12y ago
If the whole situation weren't so horrible, the fact that Color Red partnered with Yo to push out rocket notifications would be comical.
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by zarify 12y ago
I think you might want to consider non-renewable energy sources, non-recyclable waste and so on before throwing words like 'equilibrium' around :) I get that it's in the context of population though.
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by zarify 12y ago
Heh. I've heard from other teachers that we have the opposite issue: some schools encouraging students who will perform poorly to be absent whenever testing happens. (Australia, not US, so not sure how you lot handle absentees for test
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by zarify 12y ago
I know we love to harp on about teacher quality, but there are plenty of other factors that are just as important like access to the right learning programs, classroom mix and so on. As a teacher I'll be the first to admit that for som
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by zarify 12y ago
With the utmost sincerity I wish you the best of luck with that. We've recently had two in-depth studies here in Australia on resourcing for schools, and neither have made it past the politicians without getting butchered. In Western A
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by zarify 12y ago
Ignoring the obvious hyperbole of your first sentence, sure politics essentially sets the curriculum (for better or for worse). That doesn't excuse the political system also getting in the way of teaching it. Mercifully in Australia we
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by zarify 12y ago
Not exactly "these days", but hey, perspective, and non-US. 1998-2001 (Curtin, Western Australia) Intro to Programming => Pascal (switched to Java in '99) Intro to OS => C and an x86 assembly variant I don't rememb
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by zarify 12y ago
Interesting stats. I'm not sure it completely explains the higher weight divisions though, since if you look at the rate at which the heavier fighters get tired and start lowering their guard, it's much higher than in the lower we
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by zarify 12y ago
There are completely different mechanics in a slap though. With a punch you have different delivery options (looping vs linear vs uppercut etc) all of which affect the way in which the force is generated. With a slap you're pretty limi
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by zarify 12y ago
And part of that is not attacking targets where you're likely to significantly injure yourself as well as your opponent. There's a lot to be said for not punching someone in the jaw.
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by zarify 12y ago
Surely all foot traffic should be considered equal, and we shouldn't be both paying for a product and then paying again for how we get out of the store! Footwork Neutrality! (/s)
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by zarify 12y ago
I really wouldn't go so far as saying teach whatever you want (I teach CS in high school), but in Australia as well I get industry PD sessions where we get fed totally unrealistic expectations for the level most teenagers are operating
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by zarify 12y ago
I'm not sure what your experience is with kids of high school age, but in my experience (around 10 years of teaching high school CS) it's very rare to find kids who are capable of jumping into a complex environment and learning mu
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by zarify 12y ago
You realise that the post was about high school, right? It's all very well getting on the high horse about degrees in CS, but that isn't the case in point.
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by zarify 12y ago
I thought the self-sustaining bit (which is a terrible description) referred to the increase in space junk over time, compared to the period over which they were saying it was in decline (prior to people getting interested in blowing stuff
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by zarify 12y ago
Not sure why the downvotes there. I teach in South-West Western Australia so our winters are cold and wet and the summers are quite dry and hot and it's quite interesting to see the effect the weather and climate has on students (it ce
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by zarify 12y ago
After using Mindstorms a bit at my school I'm not too sure about their value as introductions to programming. The kids I have coming through seem to have done better things after being introduced via something like Scratch (or Gamemake
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by zarify 12y ago
My students speak up about every other thing that bothers them (trust me on this :P), so I don't see why their use of courseware would be any different. I looked into a bunch of different LMS packages when we were looking for something
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by zarify 12y ago
Really? I have used Moodle extensively both in my own courses (at a high school level) and in my own studies at university. I have had very little negative feedback from students, nor have I observed much difficulty in using it.
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by zarify 12y ago
The Doctor Who fan in me is lamenting that this domain isn't actually about a Popcorn Time-War.
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by zarify 13y ago
I hadn't, that actually looks pretty good. Thanks :)

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