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ClosedLearning: The latest technology meets traditional teaching.(closedlearning.com)
3 points by abrimo 12y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurship MOOC drives enrolments: Puzzles, Crowd-Funding, National Pride(openlearning.com)
3 points by abrimo 12y ago|0 comments
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by abrimo 13y ago
I agree! My reply would never be endorsed either!
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Student invents technology to produce world’s ‘cheapest’ power(thedailystar.net)
9 points by abrimo 13y ago|9 comments
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OpenLearning launches new features to let anyone create a MOOC(blog.class-central.com)
2 points by abrimo 13y ago|0 comments
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by abrimo 13y ago
You're trying to blame the victim, which is troublingly common when someone has been raped or sexually harassed but it is never the right response. It is traumatising when these things happen, it is personally demeaning and it is never
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Breaking Through Limits on Spying(nytimes.com)
36 points by abrimo 13y ago|6 comments
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by abrimo 13y ago
Yea it really is - I have nothing to do with these fellows but I found it interesting nonetheless so I posted it.
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by abrimo 13y ago
When you board a commercial airline you have to show that you have a valid visa/passport for your destination however that is not technically checked until you go through that country's immigration service. So would it be possible
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Can Snowden fly by private jet from Moscow to Ecuador?(blog.privatefly.com)
31 points by abrimo 13y ago|22 comments
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Ask HN: Anyone seeing a significant increase in yahoo/bing traffic?
1 points by abrimo 14y ago|0 comments
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The Next class of Richard Buckland's UNSW Computing 1 - Featuring PuzzleQuest(openlearning.com)
1 points by abrimo 14y ago|0 comments
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Richard Buckland's UNSW Computing 1 - learn with games, puzzles and friends(openlearning.com)
13 points by abrimo 14y ago|6 comments
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by abrimo 14y ago
The university is paid upfront by the federal government so it can still cover all of it's costs. The taxation office then collects the repayments, which are just taken out of your income. There are risks for the government. For example, l
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by abrimo 14y ago
I grew up in the US however I'm Australian and attended university in Australia. The Australian system (HECS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_fees_in_Aust... ) of managing higher education costs seems very fair. I studied t
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The Internet is life.(blog.mijura.com)
1 points by abrimo 14y ago|1 comments
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by abrimo 14y ago
That's 28 months - not weeks. So assuming you would normally upgrade every 2.5 years then it's about the same cost. If they release a new version each year then the subscription service would win easily. More importantly, creative suite is
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by abrimo 14y ago
This reminds me of the article gruber wrote late last year about the types of companies that make future concept videos. http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/companies_that_publish_con...
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Twitter style inline autocomplete for TinyMCE editor(github.com)
1 points by abrimo 15y ago|0 comments
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Want to be a software engineer? Go to university(blog.mijura.com)
15 points by abrimo 15y ago|5 comments
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Is college an investment in the future or a waste of time?(smh.com.au)
8 points by abrimo 15y ago|0 comments
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by abrimo 15y ago
Asimo seems quite a bit more advanced overall than those robots. They are designed for quite specific purposes and domain - it's hard to tell but they also don't seem autonomous. With Asimo, Handa is going for a general purpose robot that
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Groupon Gets Lukewarm Review from Chinese Partner Tencent(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by abrimo 15y ago|0 comments
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by abrimo 15y ago
I remember someone on Silicon Beach said they went through it. It sounded good so I had a look and called up about it however you aren't allowed to launch your business until you complete the program. It also seems geared towards small lo
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by abrimo 15y ago
Thanks, great job on trying to change Tourism Australia - some of the campaigns I've seen from them are just embarrassing. It really does feel that those startups which have been successful have done so in spite of being in Australia, not
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by abrimo 15y ago
Yea I was hoping they would reallocate the money they are currently spending. For example, they give over 60m a year to private VC firms which 'manage' the money by making very few investments. They've also committed almost as much to Comm
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Australian Government doesn't understand startups, gov responds(blog.mijura.com)
30 points by abrimo 15y ago|17 comments
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by abrimo 15y ago
I've attended one of Stallman's talks and it was more of a comedy than anything else. I don't actually take him seriously, he did some great work in the past but the world has moved on.
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by abrimo 15y ago
I love that speech, back in the early 80s he spoke to the Academy of Achievement which was also great to listen too: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/brochure/p3.html (search for steve jobs)
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by abrimo 15y ago
I completely agree. Although it might seem like we work hard and are fairly rewarded, the fact we have the skills and opportunities that we do is through no doing of our own. President Kennedy gave a great speech about the role and respons

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