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by jshowa 14y ago
Yes, lets just perpetuate mistakes in perpetuity. And I highly doubt everyone would end up with the same misconceptions. However, the fact that Khan Academy is a) not rigorous, b) has no type of human interface with the teacher, c) has no t
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by jshowa 14y ago
I don't know if we are talking about the same article, I'm talking about this one "How well does Khan Academy teach?" by the Michigan University math prof who outlines, in detail, basic concepts like adding decimals and multiplication that
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by jshowa 14y ago
Considering the fact that if you apply for scholarships, get good grades is high school and good ACT/SAT scores, and you can get funding from the government, college can be relatively inexpensive. I went to a private school with comparable
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by jshowa 14y ago
This pretty much sums my life up in a nutshell. I feel this a lot because I tend not to be satisfied with a lot of my work. I always critique and find ways I can do it better. That's probably why I don't have a whole lot to my name.
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by jshowa 14y ago
If you read the article, the data wasn't harmed, it was just moved. Therefore, the law wasn't violated.
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by jshowa 14y ago
Honestly, I could see this coming a mile away. I've always distrusted Apple for a variety of reasons. Probably more than Microsoft.
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by jshowa 14y ago
Try asking a book a question. Even so, text books cost a butt load. Might as well be a part of a college when you can ask profs even after walking out the door.
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by jshowa 14y ago
There is a difference between being interested and doing something. All I can say is, trusting a site run by a former middle school teacher/math coach as the "savior of education" is completely stupid. Yet we have all these influential peo
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by jshowa 14y ago
What a beautiful post. Definitely quality.
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by jshowa 14y ago
> Khan offers a free educational service that is very popular. That is a Good Thing(tm)... PERIOD. Yes, because when something is popular and free, its got to be good. cough religion anyone cough . If that is considered to be the mea
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by jshowa 14y ago
The loss is that people equate people with a college education with no experience. Which is totally false. Experience relies heavily on ones own bias judgement. It can also lead to doing things without understanding them (i.e. writing shit
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by jshowa 14y ago
There is a difference between writing software and engineering software. There really isn't anything wrong with being called a software engineer because it follows basic engineering skills rather well.
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by jshowa 14y ago
I wouldn't say that is anything wrong with your education. It probably has more to do with unemployment, the economy, and outdated/ineffective hiring system. And the fact that people on HN think a formal education is worthless, and damn doe
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by jshowa 14y ago
> Creating useful one-offs is a long, long way from consistently shipping. Yes it is. There is a lot of software, consistently shipped, that is shit. And if you honestly think creating one off items is useless, please go down to your lo
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by jshowa 14y ago
Because, if you look at it from a business standpoint, why would you hire more employers if you have employers that can convert. Unlike some people, I don't need $90k to make a living. But then again, when has ethics ever been a problem rig
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by jshowa 14y ago
How is my argument absurd? I fail to see how writing code with early exits and having a basic understanding of process memory space, which I've demonstrated on the basis of things people, that don't have CS degrees, have said and done at my
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by jshowa 14y ago
I laughed when you only pointed out two of the things I listed in what I accomplished for my CS degree and went on to say it was "insufficient" because we don't have budget and time schedules like companies do in order to actually do produc
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by jshowa 14y ago
> Unfortunately, higher education in the US becomes more and more a matter of money and not ability. I think this isn't a higher education issue, its an issue with careers in general. Most companies go by a resume, an interview, and a f
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by jshowa 14y ago
> Ultimately, these companies wouldn't invest in training if there wasn't a return on that investment. Possibly, but its hard to see a ROI in this situation considering they are paying for training and giving the kids a full-time job, p
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by jshowa 14y ago
That isn't the work I'm talking about. I'm talking about assignments and exercises. The things you're suppose to be doing in college.
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by jshowa 14y ago
Yeah, never heard anything about a "knowledge economy". Must be made up. > I don't like to yell, but here it is plainly: YES. Really? I must have went to the wrong college then or you're interviewing the wrong people. Yes, there is a re
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by jshowa 14y ago
Since when did people going to college not "work"? Have you even been to college?
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by jshowa 14y ago
>I trust a few million people who enjoy watching sports as to what the proper allocation of that money is than I trust you. What value do they deliver that requires them to add several more zeros to their income? Do you really trust peo
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by jshowa 14y ago
>> I don't think the knowledge learned in a CS degree is applicable, or even useful in day to day programming. The bits that are, can be learned. Does this mean that there will be more code I have to fix as a result of my CS degree?
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by jshowa 14y ago
>> The economy is moving towards knowledge-based jobs. >> A programmer with a CS degree and no internships, no open source, no working under experienced talent, is (nearly) worthless. An English major aspiring to write for m
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by jshowa 14y ago
>> To put this in comparison, my nephew at 17, was a deckhand on a tugboat in a mining port making $120K+. Now that he has a license to captain a vessel up to 25 metres I believe he's rapidly approaching if not exceeding $200K. I th
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by jshowa 14y ago
Might as well just forget about a technical section then.
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by jshowa 14y ago
Read through a couple of comments and all I see is people bitching about phone and cable companies. The problem is, you can only get Google fiber if you get enough people in your neighborhood that want it and you meet a preregistration goal
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by jshowa 14y ago
>> Common answers: better tests, cleaner code, better design. I wouldn't be so keen to say that these help "avoid mysteries" in the first place. Many algorithms that have better time complexity and space complexity are often much ha
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by jshowa 14y ago
I never understood review sites like Rotten Tomatoes and the like. Don't sites like Amazon, where you can actually buy the product, already accomplish this? Unless you have actual authors or news critics writing critiques for a book, there

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