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by nmrm 12y ago
Counting up the number of people who could've written a given non-anonymous paper is pretty unheard of in academia afaik. The answer is usually politely assumed to be "exactly the number of authors". I've certainly never
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by nmrm 12y ago
Do you mean originate and write the paper? Or do you mean just maybe understand the general essence of the paper's title, and understand major contributions after spending some time reading the paper? If the former, well... yes. That&#
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by nmrm 12y ago
I agree with other comment authors that this attitude is unnecessarily negative. But at the same time, I'm always surprised when people claim these sorts of comments are self-defeatist. Unrealistic expectations can be just as psycholog
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by nmrm 12y ago
(this is a living comment until the first reply. Sorry.) I have four major points: 1. You can assess even major-agnostic, general skills in content-specific ways. Such assessments are far less likely to have the negative externalities of
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by nmrm 12y ago
> the information density of your typical lecture was such that a semester should be easily compressible to a dozen pages of typed notes. But that isn't to say, I don't think, that it wasn't difficult! Oh how true! > Or
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by nmrm 12y ago
Standardized assessments are an inadequate way to measure outcomes at the higher ed level; the methodology discussed in the article is terminally flawed. I propose that you fundamentally cannot measure what a given person learned or didn&#
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by nmrm 12y ago
If you respond with specific requirements I'll be glad to give you a rundown of options for each requirement, as well as good "package deals" of software that works well in concert.
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by nmrm 12y ago
For most people/IT departments, dependence on Office is the only reason they hand Microsoft a dime for Windows. If you're not using Office or other Windows-only productivity software, why pay the Windows licensing fee?
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by nmrm 12y ago
Yes, but for every person who needs specialized software to do their job, there are many who don't. For instance, even most police officers in the area where I live don't need special software. Some do, but most use a few web apps
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by nmrm 12y ago
Some things claim to be, but not really. You can write down the list of sharepoint features you need, and then find individual OSS projects that fill the gap. It's not a one-stop thing, but it doesn't have to be a deal breaker eit
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by nmrm 12y ago
I'm not claiming he's an Super Well Known Guy, but that it's trivially easy to figure out the non-programmer ad hom is inaccurate. > First page of google for Jonathan Edwards produces a 17th century philosopher and a sin
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by nmrm 12y ago
Comparing my experience in higher education to the constant litany of negative literature on education sends up red flags. I typically write off books/articles in this genre as fear mongering. I've not read this particular book, b
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by nmrm 12y ago
Sure, but a systems-oriented course is the right place to pound that into people. Not CS1. CS1 should be an introduction to the nature of the discipline. I can think of many things more important and more representative of the nature of com
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by nmrm 12y ago
As a long-time Lisp/ML hacker, I find it absolutely hilarious that FP is a fad now. I'm not saying you're wrong; I just think it's incredibly funny.
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by nmrm 12y ago
> written by non-programmers This is an interesting characterization of Jonathan Edwards... did you not do research on the author before writing this, or are you really claiming he's a "non-programmer"?
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by nmrm 12y ago
I wonder if some of this is the bored engineer phenomenon? I find that when I'm writing actually difficult code, it almost always comes out clean, simple and easy to read. It's when I'm churning out ridiculous amounts of fron
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by nmrm 12y ago
I'm not a bitcoin apologist; the whole thing seems silly to me. Even still, this report is downright scary. > During a raid last week on one of the suspects' homes, investigators seized a portfolio of Bitcoins - worth some 9,00
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by nmrm 12y ago
There is an excellent post below by user gaius addressing this issue. You seem to believe that search engines are not force multipliers for for-profit gossip mongering; this is demonstrably false.
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by nmrm 12y ago
Not at all! I and other comment authors on this thread have mentioned that because of the nature of both the law and the internet, abuse is highly unlikely. This means that the 100% certain probability that people are currently marginally
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by nmrm 12y ago
The equivalence is in the rhetorical justification, not the methodology. In both cases, an appeal to security is used to trivialize the importance of privacy. For the NSA, terrorism > privacy every time . For Karunamon, "censorship
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by nmrm 12y ago
Doesn't this magnify grandparent's point? Each of his examples is doubly important if it's actually factually incorrect.
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by nmrm 12y ago
That's not how I understood the granparent's comment (operative word is some ). In any case, the EU policy specifically excludes public figures. So to the extent that you're correct, s/he's reacting to an fictional
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by nmrm 12y ago
This is literally the exact same argument as "security trumps privacy". NSA et al. argue that they need to know about everyone's dirty laundry in order to protect civil society from terrorists (or whatever). You argue that
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by nmrm 12y ago
Did you read the articles on the site (tone o fcuriosity, not indignation)? * The Daniels-Dwyer article serves no obvious public good. * The post-it thing is a huge wtf. No idea why anyone would even care. * The train thing is embarrassing;
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by nmrm 12y ago
Even many of the sites currently on the list seem like "not a big deal". E.g. petty theft by private citizens, gossip, etc. The only reason some of the currently listed sites even exist is that some reporter figured they could mak
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by nmrm 12y ago
Another great Žižek story/parable about surveillance is the red ink one, which I think is also relevant here: So what are we doing here? Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to wo
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by nmrm 12y ago
It would be quite neat to extend this with an evolutionary algorithm for picking starting positions in the hierarchy and probabilities based upon some proxies of enjoy-ability or play-ability.
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by nmrm 12y ago
I don't have actual code. But when tutoring CS1 and CS2 students during undergrad, it was common for students to try to implement algorithms in terms of linked lists when they should have been using a tree. The really persistent studen
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by nmrm 12y ago
Well, yes. But I think this undersells it. This is probably the best TL;DR: The author created a nice way of specifying loot dropping behavior such that (begin quote): "Any monster has a chance of dropping almost any item, so you have
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by nmrm 12y ago
Move to a foreign country without much cash for a summer or so. Hopefully your employer is accommodating; if not, find a good story or line-up a new job. It's an incredibly liberating experience. Puts a lot into perspective.

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