andrewce

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by andrewce 15y ago
"That sounds pretty cool. I'm not really looking for new projects right now because I want to spend my time on the ones I've got going already, but if you want, I can send you a list of programming resources* you might find useful." If they
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by andrewce 15y ago
My experience as both a student and a teacher (in several different schools) suggests that a decent number of teachers (less than half, but more than a few) become teachers mostly because they really like the power games that can be played
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by andrewce 15y ago
I had a similar experience, and am curious why you think you had the experience you did? I grew up an unabashed geek in the midwest, and felt no more social isolation than anyone else in my peer group at school. Some of this was because I p
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by andrewce 15y ago
This seems like it could be really useful when paired with "The Gutenberg Method" ( http://entropysite.oxy.edu/morrison.html ), which basically asks students to do the assigned reading at home, along with some type of annotation of "Here's
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by andrewce 15y ago
Congrats on the success of all this! Breaking even in 3 months takes some doing. I noticed some places where I think I could clean up and improve the writing. Do you mind if I take a stab at it?
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by andrewce 15y ago
It can be a good teaching method or a bad one, depending on how it's used. Personally, I enjoy having students come up to the whiteboard. But when we do so, I present it as the student at the board is a representative of the class. The whol
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by andrewce 15y ago
I'm a few chapter's into Hartl's book now. I really appreciate how it explains most things on a few different levels, i.e. both the concrete and theoretical workings of a piece of code. I don't understand much yet, but instead of frustratio
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by andrewce 16y ago
"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn (as well as "My Ishmael") changed how I view the world and how I characterize contemporary issues. The Takers/Leavers dichotomy, while a tad simplistic, was jaw-dropping at the time. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
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by andrewce 16y ago
One more thing: Challenging/important tasks. Some of this gets filed under "Growth Prospects", and some of it gets filed under "Autonomy". If your employees have challenging and/or meaningful things to work on, and an environment where they
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by andrewce 16y ago
Assuming he makes $50 every day for a calendar year, we're talking a little ways north of $18k/yr, before taxes. Not the biggest amount in the world, but certainly pretty substantial by any reasonable metric. Alternatively: $50 seems to me
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by andrewce 16y ago
I watched that match back in high school (his streak corresponded with my own academic bowl team's season), and "What is a hoe?" was my response, too. I'd never heard that semantic sense of "rake" before, and felt somewhat scandalized that
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by andrewce 16y ago
My writing group uses Crocodoc when we exchange drafts and provide feedback. Keeping all of the annotations in one place means that I don't have to worry about having 4 different copies of a document (each one commented on by a different pe
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by andrewce 16y ago
I love Preview, but have found that when I use the annotation feature and send it to others who use other PDF viewers (FoxIt, Acrobat Reader, et al) that the annotations don't always behave like they should.
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by andrewce 16y ago
If you double click a few times on the game screen, that usually straightens it out.
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by andrewce 16y ago
I mean the whole thing. The advice given to Nick by his father (in his younger and more vulnerable years), the statements he makes about how others seem to see him as a confidante, and also the way he characterizes Gatsby ("a romantic readi
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by andrewce 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. I got called into work and missed today's Jeopardy! episode, so seeing this link was definitely a relief.
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by andrewce 16y ago
I've read "Gatsby" over 25 times in the last 5 years, and have taught it twice. It's my favourite piece of literature by far, and would be my nominee for "Most Beautifully Written Book In The English Language" (should such an award exist).
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by andrewce 16y ago
If you're okay with waiting a few hours/days, The Pirate Bay seems to have a good selection of torrents of recent Jeopardy! episodes, though I've not yet tried it. You'll also be able to see a full transcript of the board, as well as all qu
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by andrewce 16y ago
Human contestants are also able to see the question typed out (much like it's displayed on the television), so people are able to do this as well. I'm usually able to read any given question in about a second. Granted, I used to practice sp
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by andrewce 16y ago
My college didn't have a college bowl team, but competing on high school teams and being responsible for more than a few correct two or three word answers, I can vouch for this. It's all about having enough breadth that the other bits of in
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by andrewce 16y ago
From their website: "messiahStudio can be used as a complete stand-alone animation and rendering package, or as a powerful addition to Modo, Maya, 3DMAX, SoftImage XSI, LightWave, Cinema 4D or an in-house proprietary application; through ex
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by andrewce 16y ago
A google search for reviews doesn't turn up much, so you're probably not alone in saying "I've never heard of this". Said search turns up quite a few rapidshare/torrenting links, but with a price point of only $40, I don't see why anyone wo
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by andrewce 16y ago
If there's a reasonably reputable university nearby, one thing to see is if you can work part-time and go to school part-time (alternatively: see if you can telecommute). Your employer may even be able to help with tuition (time to brush up
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by andrewce 16y ago
In this case, this seems less about "educating B students" than it is finding multiple venues in which students can be successful. The student who does not get A's still has quite a few skills beyond the usual collegiate regiment of "Write
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by andrewce 16y ago
Had I not been a writing teacher when I read this book, I would not have appreciated it as much as I did. In particular, the "Itty-bitty rules for itty-bitty people" line (while he is at the U of Chicago) resonated with me. You're right in
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by andrewce 16y ago
The schism between classicism and romanticism, as presented in "Zen", changed the way I view the world. I've been slowly teaching myself to see both, and to switch between those views at will, though it's occasionally unsettling to do so.
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by andrewce 16y ago
My younger sister refers to this as "Percolation", as do others ( http://www.learningassistance.com/2005/june/percolation.html ). Sometimes, I need to sit with an idea for a week or so before taking action, and the product is great, albeit
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by andrewce 16y ago
I'm also hard-of-hearing, but went to a school for the deaf for several years. When rooming with others (say, on school trips, which were fairly frequent), some of my schoolmates would talk in their sleep, and others would sign. According t
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by andrewce 16y ago
Confirmed. Adding such sensory detail to narrative descriptions is pretty easy to do in American Sign Language (I can't speak for BSL or others, though French Sign Language is pretty close to ASL, from what I understand). I'm no longer good
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by andrewce 16y ago
Here's Virgin's coverage map for voice-usage: http://www.virginmobileusa.com/check-cell-phone-coverage It looks like Virgin uses Sprint's 3G network. Here's their coverage map: http://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?ECID=vanity:coverage

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