neilcrj

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by neilcrj 10y ago
This is the problem Richard MacDuff was wrestling with at the beginning of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I love it when sci-fi from my childhood becomes reality.
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by neilcrj 10y ago
> it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video It's a public university. They could pay a grateful student a federally-subsidized wage to transcribe 5 hours of video per week, and have it count toward the University's communi
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by neilcrj 10y ago
I have a standard rubric for questions like these, and would have scored the response above 1/5 for an attempt being made with an incorrect or unclear argument. My expectations are very clear. I disagree with your characterization of g
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by neilcrj 10y ago
> People who like modern UIs Even more people like stable UIs.
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by neilcrj 11y ago
> The thing I don't want is to think the kid is okay and then find out they've been holding it all back. Great insight. Kids at that age are looking for parental/adult approval and they know that the adults around them wan
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by neilcrj 12y ago
I think this is their source: "We estimate that 30.0 million or 12.7% of Americans ≥ 12 years had bilateral hearing loss from 2001–2008, and this estimate increases to 48.1 million or 20.3% when also including individuals with unilater
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by neilcrj 12y ago
He didn't "choose" to hand them to security agents, he was asked to empty his pockets, which contained the flash cards.
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by neilcrj 12y ago
If the author cleared them, then it explains the cover price.
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by neilcrj 12y ago
The tests the teacher is criticizing are standardized summative assessments used to rank, reward and punish students, teachers or both. These usually fail to provide any detailed feedback of instructional value, and frequently aren't e
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by neilcrj 12y ago
The only difference between your definition and that of the parent is that you explicitly deny the existence of state terrorism, and I don't think that is an improvement. I think we would all be better off separating terrorism (a tacti
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by neilcrj 12y ago
This is a function of how gifted kids learn social skills. Before adolescence, children primarily seek approval from parents and teachers. Gifted kids get this in abundance, and learn how to earn, as you put it, social currency with adults