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by zjs 6y ago
Feedback about writing quality has been hard for me to address. This video clearly explains the difference between the way students learn to write and the way we should write in the "real world". The ideas are easy to apply and, i
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by zjs 6y ago
I'll attempt at the second one: You are designing a game to teach kids math in a fun way, where do you start? First, I can brainstorm many questions: • Is this a physical game or a computer game? • Is this a solo game or a group activi
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by zjs 6y ago
(I have no real expertise on this; I'm just relaying my understanding.) Textualism involves interpreting words with the same meaning that they would have had at the time whey were written. Originalism involves interpreting words in the
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by zjs 6y ago
I'm not the person you're asking, but will share my thoughts anyways. I learned when a friend dragged me to a "taster" class at a local social dance venue. It was fun, so I went the next week. At the beginning of the nex
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by zjs 6y ago
I had overlooked the potential impact of internet censorship. It seems like it would be very hard to take a graduate-level class without access to resources like Google Scholar.
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by zjs 6y ago
While it's not exactly a viable skill to learn at the moment, I found learning a social partner dance to be eye opening. (Slight aside: I started with Lindy Hop, which is typically danced to Jazz music. It has its roots in a variety of
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by zjs 6y ago
An additional challenge is that classes will, almost certainly, be scheduled based on "local time". Students attending from other countries may find themselves needing to significantly time-shift their studies.
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by zjs 6y ago
It seems like there are several tools like this. What makes this one different or better than the others?
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by zjs 6y ago
It's interesting to see all of the misspellings (e.g., it looks like there are 13 entries for San Francisco). I would have expected someone applying for a loan for hundreds of thousands of dollars to get things like this correct.
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by zjs 6y ago
Her actions and policies aren't well-publicized, but they're not good. As a simple example: in 2017, DeVos and Trump proposed "cutting $1.2 billion for after-school programs that serve 1.6 million children, most of whom are p
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by zjs 6y ago
> Overall, they're an excellent investment and the data shows that they work. Searching, I'm finding mixed results. It seems like some studies show that they have worked in specific situations, whereas others show that they hav
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by zjs 6y ago
My University had a dedicated staff, dorms, and extracurricular programming to help accelerated students make the transition during their first year. I resented much of the structure at the time (who wants to have a curfew during their firs
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by zjs 6y ago
> We also had someone try to cause problems because our Linux systems had "man pages", which they believed was proof that Linux distributions were sexist. This is a really interesting example. Naively, I'd expect the meani
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by zjs 6y ago
Disclaimer: I've never worked at a startup. However... Tech debt is like any other kind of debt: a way to increase leverage. Some tech debt is like a mortgage. You get significant value, immediately, and can keep the payments manageabl
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by zjs 6y ago
In part due to the latency noted elsewhere in the comments, I find myself interrupting people more when I'm remote. With video on, the visual cue of someone getting ready to start talking makes that easier to avoid. Secondarily, I have
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by zjs 6y ago
On my browser, it appears that the top bar of Hacker News is #ff6600. Is there somewhere that #ff6500 is used?
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by zjs 6y ago
One challenge with this is that the same name will be proposed for similar colors. For example: https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=+Safety+Orange+ Deciding what to call a color is going to require more t
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by zjs 7y ago
Do you have a source for those numbers? They differ significantly from https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=30183 , but perhaps your source is more reliable. Edit: nevermind, I misunderstood the definition of "Cura
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by zjs 7y ago
Could you help me understand which parts of the article seemed to you to be "demonizing every non-leftist opponent as a deplorable, mouth-breathing, lying Nazi"?
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by zjs 7y ago
I think this article explains things much more clearly: https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/SF-restaurant-Kin-K...
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by zjs 7y ago
It would be interesting to be able to visualize dependency relationships. It's easy to see what's blocked, but being able to identify blocking tasks that aren't yet in progress is important.
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by zjs 7y ago
I think this is the first time that the IRS has explicitly stated that specific identification is a valid accounting method for virtual currency: Q36. I own multiple units of one kind of virtual currency, some of which were acquired at dif
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by zjs 7y ago
I'm not sure if numbering is stable (so perhaps this was A24 at one point), but I find this the most relevant portion of the FAQ: Q27. I received cryptocurrency that does not have a published value in exchange for property or services
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by zjs 7y ago
You don't necessarily need to support two formats; you need to support redirecting the previously-issued URLs. This _can_ be accomplished by supporting the old format, but it doesn't _need_ to be. Instead, you could just use a dat
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by zjs 7y ago
I found Cloudflare's post on this topic to be more useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19678693
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by zjs 8y ago
To adopt a standard set of terminology — while fully acknowledging the limitations of the model — consider the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. I've met or worked with programmers with 3 years of experience who demonstrated competen
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by zjs 8y ago
Moving from being a programmer to being a manger should require retraining.
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by zjs 8y ago
I don't think this would give me sufficient data to compare candidates in an unbiased way. Without establishing objective criteria with which to evaluate candidates, it's much easier to fall back on decision making processes that
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by zjs 8y ago
Interestingly, working fewer hours a year was typical in pre-industrial society[1]. 1: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
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by zjs 8y ago
I support both of those ideas, but I'm not sure I see how those solve the underlying problems highlighted by the article. We're going to continue to introduce technology to improve quality and enhance productivity. Will jobs conti

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