mostlyListening

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The Richest Design Opportunity That You’ve Never Heard Of(fastcodesign.com)
2 points by mostlyListening 14y ago|1 comments
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by mostlyListening 14y ago
This doesn't include state and city levels, where most of the education spending happens.
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by mostlyListening 14y ago
I am sure that most designers and programmers working on games are driven by passion to make great games. But they will be hired, paid, and managed by another bunch who need to pay at least partial attention to making money. It is like the
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
Most of what's in a newspaper is junk food, but there are very worthy parts: I find columns in NYT by Krugman, Brooks and Douthat to be thought-provoking even if I don't agree. And I find feature pieces of social or economic trends to be en
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
Sorry but that is flat out wrong. The SAT math and verbal sections are not about knowledge but about reasoning abilities. In fact, the "knowledge" (rules etc.) is given right along with the questions. Not anyone can get 800, only 1% of all
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
So if SOPA fails to pass and stops being an issue, will that boycott end or will it continue? Going by PG's reasoning (If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
Also, I don't think what you're saying about the Gaussian distribution is true for GRE Subject tests as they have significantly varying distributions. Check out this table: http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/gre_guide_table2.pdf It would appear
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
Skipping the Bachelor entirely might be one use case for the GRE subject test, but I think a more common use case is where the applicant to grad school has a Bachelor is a different field (Math grad going to CS school). I imagine one would
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
You mentioned the GRE, and I assume you mean the famous GRE general test. But another option to look at to prove mastery of material is the GRE subject test. While the GRE General is mostly an IQ test, GRE subject tests have a knowledge com
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
Amazon's advantage are mostly -though not entirely- in the superb logistics that allow them to undercut competitors' prices. Beyond low prices, there is not much that is unique and can't be duplicated. I think GE at its prime had more intri
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
He was probably doing this: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2010/10/confes...
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So it's not just that CS departments are graduating engineers who can't solves FizzBuzz, law schools are graduating lawyers who can't file a merger certificate. This goes to the heart of what education should be about. Foundations and theor
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by mostlyListening 15y ago
The problem with making predictions about a complex system (nonlinear system) like human civilization is that there are so many factors and variables that can affect the trajectory that accurate prediction is virtually impossible. You would