ottonomy

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by ottonomy 4y ago
Yeah, server completely fell over when we all slashdotted it. This is the sort of thing to bookmark and then try to remember it again tomorrow.
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by ottonomy 5y ago
Badgr https://badgr.com (A product of Concentric Sky) | Technical Account Manager | Eugene, OR; or REMOTE (US) | Full Time Badgr is an industry-leading digital credentials platform. We help organizations implement branded learni
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by ottonomy 8y ago
It's pretty much impossible for Amazon to tell whether an item is a licensed use of a copyrighted creative work or not. It's perfectly legal to resell work that was legally bought with no additional permission from the creator, fo
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by ottonomy 8y ago
My local recycling program no longer accepts almost all plastic recycling due to China blocking shipments because what they were getting from plastic container loads were too contaminated. No thanks!
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by ottonomy 10y ago
I've been following some friends' travels through southeast Asia over the last six months via Instagram, and it's been great. Seems like they're having a great time, and I like being able to talk to them about what they&
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by ottonomy 11y ago
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) Got a work machine to upgrade from my 2011 13" MacBook Pro, and the extra screen space really helps with multitasking, but it sure is a lot heavier than the 13".
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by ottonomy 11y ago
Badge Alliance ( https://badgealliance.org ) | Eugene, OR | Part-Time Junior Developer | Contract position | Remote or onsite We are the standards body and Community Hub for the Open Badges specification, the shared language for p
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by ottonomy 11y ago
Yeah. China has one time-zone, but is wide enough for five, and they already treat time like this. The last week has been stupid, with UK and Europe already switching back to standard time with the US lagging on DST. UTC Now! (Sent at 16:16
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by ottonomy 11y ago
"So you have to wonder, what's really the point in measuring weight? Why not measure what really matters, the size of your body!" I do have to wonder, why is it that the size of your body matters?
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by ottonomy 12y ago
Oof. The poster should forward that email to whoever else at the company can deal with it so that hopefully someone else doesn't have to deal with it in the future.
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by ottonomy 12y ago
Interesting. You might be interested in some of the discussions we've been having in the http://opencreds.org/ group.
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by ottonomy 12y ago
Especially under the current copyright regime, finding some solution that preserves the intent of the creator to publish in a fixed format, would be a great component of a distributed publishing system. I don't think this proposal has
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by ottonomy 12y ago
Thanks for pointing these out. The perception in the MOOC community is really not much more nuanced than the headline, so it might be scaring others off from making a big credit push.
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by ottonomy 12y ago
I would wonder if they'd look at this and worry that there wouldn't be enough interest: A University's Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers http://chronicle.com/article/A-Universitys-Offer-of-Credit&
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by ottonomy 12y ago
The idea of breaking down courses is really interesting to me, because I think a "course" is a great way to organize content in a field. Let an expert guide you through a series of perspectives. But completing them often takes mor
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by ottonomy 12y ago
Worried enough about posting this that you'd create a new account so that people don't see this connected to whatever your long-term identity is?
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by ottonomy 13y ago
Thankfully, the best way to use myOpenID was to delegate to it from the ID you actually wanted to use, so everybody who did this will still be able to log in using their OpenID credentials as soon as they find a replacement to actually be t