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by qubot 14y ago
Here's what you do: Gather as many friends as you can and get an idea of where the toilet is when the room is vacant. Wait off to the side until the restroom is occupied, ideally by someone who looks like they had to settle. Completely surr
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Cheating Khan Academy(sagegerard.com)
1 points by qubot 14y ago|0 comments
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by qubot 14y ago
On my first submission to this site, I acted like an asshole in the comments section to reciprocate the attitude of the comments I got. My opinionated tone earned me more points, when I hate doing that kind of thing to begin with. This is a
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by qubot 14y ago
> "Technology needs to empower people to manage people. Software should not manage people." I agree, in a way. The only communities I have seen that associates numbers with human merit or trustworthiness are the ones populated largely b
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by qubot 14y ago
> "Objectivism is objectively the greatest system of Philosophy ever put together up until now." Please. Objectivism draws no clear distinction between self-interest and self-worship. Its followers are some of the most unbearable narcis
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Reconsider the Past(sagegerard.com)
1 points by qubot 14y ago|0 comments
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by qubot 14y ago
> "Being given incorrect information, and making mistakes, and not knowing you've made mistakes, is not a useful learning technique." W3Schools has pointed out that users take a risk with its content, and it made no claim over the quali
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by qubot 14y ago
> "Which is quite likely to be when their customers' data..." Who would hire someone who only has W3Schools knowledge? Are we really worried about them?
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by qubot 14y ago
> "Wordpress is great, though, because anyone can set it up and use it. Anyone." Nothing is wrong with choosing an easy to use tool for the kinds of requirements clearly described in the about page. > "Decision Tree Generator" My cl
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by qubot 14y ago
> "How are people supposed to know that they need to go and find a separate security tutorial (and not a W3Schools one, they don't have one)?" Whenever they realize they don't understand something. This could happen by reflecting on the
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by qubot 14y ago
The problem is nuance, which involves all those little wow-I-wish-I-knew-THAT tidbits that students never learn about until a forum member or colleague hollers at them. Languages cannot eliminate every subtlety in their use, and there will
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by qubot 14y ago
Yes! Thank you.
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by qubot 14y ago
I did. I am fully aware of the inaccurate content I ran with from w3schools, which is why I corrected myself. That does not change the fact w3schools was there when I needed a source that was easy to understand.
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by qubot 14y ago
Maybe not, but I can still appreciate them and remember what they offered.
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by qubot 14y ago
> "I think the author is about 7 years too late..." If Hacker News participants ran the world no one would care about history. We can discuss things that happened in the past. It sure as hell sparked discussion here. > "Don't get me
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by qubot 14y ago
I came out of it just fine. Satan had some good contacts.
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by qubot 14y ago
I agree with everything but the last bit. If you throw away the ladder, doesn't that represent forgetting the information that actually helped you?
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by qubot 14y ago
Oo! I like the system, but beginners wouldn't know what to do there. By that I mean, they would not learn much there without prior knowledge.
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by qubot 14y ago
Forgive me for appreciating what helped me grow. > "Your point seems to be that w3schools has a special place in your heart. Okay." Yep.
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by qubot 14y ago
The age of what is being talked about does not determine the relevance of the conversation and what it entails.
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by qubot 14y ago
> "That's the point of w3fools: w3s is not reliable..." This unreliable (albeit crystal-clear) source did not stop me from scoring a good portfolio and happy clients ( http://linkd.in/ON5eHL ).
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by qubot 14y ago
> "you seem to be posting snippy responses to everyone's comments here" Sorry about that. It is not my intention to be rude or troll, but I've got a lot of discussions to manage. I went ahead and edited out some needlessly harsh bits he
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by qubot 14y ago
> "Not necessarily, and bad code can make dangerous tutorials." W3Schools is not responsible for what devs do, and safe code means introducing more concepts that can leave the scope of a tutorial. I agree the code sucks, but we're talki
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by qubot 14y ago
A content farm with quizzes, a live editor and sequential lessons?
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by qubot 14y ago
Good code makes crappy tutorials. If I was a moron, I don't care if the examples inadvertently summons swarms of locusts if I understand them quickly. Now, I would be all for W3Schools making their disclaimer more noticeable. It is there, t
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by qubot 14y ago
No, they're not. Quit exaggerating and let beginners be beginners.
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by qubot 14y ago
The age of what is being talked about does not determine the relevance of the conversation and what it entails.
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by qubot 14y ago
Maybe, but I would be concerned about a future where W3School's increase in accuracy hurts it's clarity.
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by qubot 14y ago
Cool. I'm glad you care. You can clean it up. We done here?
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by qubot 14y ago
#1: You and I both know more examples are out there. #2: getElementById returns developer.mozilla.org as the first result for me. Anyway, what about the point of why there is so much support? Convenience beats accuracy. I don't use W3School

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