$1000 pays off in a year, two at most. So unless you are suggesting that there will always be an inverse relationship between the labour cost and the module cost (which you'd really need to justify), there's really no case for saying labour cost is an issue.
Given that both my parents and my significant other are all teachers, and several of my friends have had great success with alternative learning styles, I am going to go ahead and ignore this paper, which says only that there aren't many studies which meet their specific preferred experiment design. Differentiated instruction does accomplish what "traditional" learning doesn't - it provides a means of understanding material in several different ways and activates several different mental "nodes". So while the specific studies on the topic may not be perfect, the practical effect is engagement, which even the authors of the paper acknowledge. Engagement with material is a not-insignificant effect on someone undertaking learning for their own purposes.
A degree matters only insofar as you try to meet people who are interesting and interested in what you want to do. Research your professors. Join the CS club. Join the math club. Join the Fine Arts faculty for whatever social events they hold, because some of those people can do your site design, or your art, or help you understand how visual thinking works. Meet people. You need to behave as if you are interested in what you are doing. If you are interested, and if you apply yourself to those interests, then you will find that your degree benefits you.
If you're doing a program online, then you need to engage with people a different way - look at the teams behind tools you like, and reach out to them via forums. Participate in communities that cater to your field. Meet people who are launching web startups nearby.
Find people. Meet them. Engage with them. This is the work you will be doing for a long time, so get started on it.
You save the $5k on using cheaper hardware in Dev, but cost them $50k in downtime because that difference causes a bug to be exposed in Prod.
The problem with choosing the number $5k is that $5k is nothing. Spending a quarter mill to save a million down the road makes sense, but you just try making the case to the business some time.
I don't know what you're seeing in that graph, but I'm seeing significantly higher temperatures than normal after the melting point, which is exactly what TFA mentioned. The average temperature may be below melting, but that doesn't mean the temperature everywhere is below melting. A higher average temperature means more melt. If you look at years before and after about 1980 on that page, you see that the curve has in general been showing higher temperatures most years after the general melting point.
He's made a lot of cogent points about the course he took. Maybe you should respond to those instead of resorting to character assassination. Instructors who actually care about the classroom are the right people to judge course material. Students have too many other concerns to evaluate objectively.
Proof that it is not better: Many people have died who have nothing to do with the conflict. This continues to happen. Ethically speaking, this is worse. Ergo, it is not better. It may have a different balance of rights and wrongs. But it has wrongs that would not exist the other way, so it is not better.
"They" is the wrong word to use here. "They" would not gloat, for example. Terrorists would gloat. Citizens would be happy, except in those cases (crushingly brutal regimes a la Syria, corrupt politicians a la Egypt) where they were not. Either way, it is provably wrong to think that the solution of going in and reducing people to wet chunks is a better one than standing back and acting in more difficult, less dramatic ways.
Based on Joel Spolsky's suggestion I bought a details adjusTable. Being a heavy guy (nearly 400 lbs), I couldn't get their side-by-side setup with a flat treadmill, so I bought a heavy duty treadmill with the intent of hacking it together with the desk. If I had my time back, I think I'd just have bought the treadmill and one of these.
Having said that, there's a lot to be said for a standing desk with good quality lift and the ability to return to sitting position. You can multipurpose the desk for a lot of different stuff. It takes some work, though.
Slippery slopes tend to be less slippery when there's a wall of legal text already established to prevent the slope in question from being greased too liberally.
So they must turn off secure booting in order to run another operating system.
From TFA:
While Microsoft have modified their original position and all x86 Windows machines will be required to have a firmware option to disable this or to permit users to enrol their own keys
If they know what they're doing they're ok. Fedora is doing this for the rest of their users.
Where exactly do you expect those laid off to find work? Do you expect that work to be in Canada? Do you expect it to pay as well? Do you expect it to lie in their domain of expertise? Because if the answer to any of those questions is no for a significant number of people, then congratulations, your economy just got smaller, that is to say, there's a possible recession.
In your example, in actual fact, it doesn't necessarily mean you're a cowardly asshole, it can also mean your cultural assumptions are different. But you turn out to be right that there are enough other cues that someone should NOT learn those behaviours. And my point was not that these things teach those lessons so it's ok. My point was that they teach those lessons, full stop. Nobody's learning good sexual conduct from most porn. Nobody's learning social graces from online FPS play.
You can't learn not to do something from something that glorifies that behaviour. You can learn it other places, including when someone says, for example, games and porn are ruining your ability to relate to women. But in general socialization relies on people behaving in a socially acceptable way to each other, and these environments are rife with examples where they quite simply do not.
Porn in general is a terrible way to work your way into sex. The vast majority of pornography out there is so misogynist that it poses a real danger to any eventual partner that a person who was educated thusly might find.
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Welcome to the future?
You mean like this, right?
$1000 pays off in a year, two at most. So unless you are suggesting that there will always be an inverse relationship between the labour cost and the module cost (which you'd really need to justify), there's really no case for saying labour cost is an issue.
Given that both my parents and my significant other are all teachers, and several of my friends have had great success with alternative learning styles, I am going to go ahead and ignore this paper, which says only that there aren't many studies which meet their specific preferred experiment design. Differentiated instruction does accomplish what "traditional" learning doesn't - it provides a means of understanding material in several different ways and activates several different mental "nodes". So while the specific studies on the topic may not be perfect, the practical effect is engagement, which even the authors of the paper acknowledge. Engagement with material is a not-insignificant effect on someone undertaking learning for their own purposes.
Different people learn differently. Consider the possibility that you are simply not using the learning style best suited to you. There are tools to help with this.
The sleep thing as well, obviously. But consider that you may not have a fruitful approach to learning in general.
A degree matters only insofar as you try to meet people who are interesting and interested in what you want to do. Research your professors. Join the CS club. Join the math club. Join the Fine Arts faculty for whatever social events they hold, because some of those people can do your site design, or your art, or help you understand how visual thinking works. Meet people. You need to behave as if you are interested in what you are doing. If you are interested, and if you apply yourself to those interests, then you will find that your degree benefits you.
If you're doing a program online, then you need to engage with people a different way - look at the teams behind tools you like, and reach out to them via forums. Participate in communities that cater to your field. Meet people who are launching web startups nearby.
Find people. Meet them. Engage with them. This is the work you will be doing for a long time, so get started on it.
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You save the $5k on using cheaper hardware in Dev, but cost them $50k in downtime because that difference causes a bug to be exposed in Prod.
The problem with choosing the number $5k is that $5k is nothing. Spending a quarter mill to save a million down the road makes sense, but you just try making the case to the business some time.
1. If it was good enough for Einstein, it's good enough for you. Spend a little time reading patents. Maybe you'll change the world
2. Congratulations to Spolsky and Atwood, because damn
I don't know what you're seeing in that graph, but I'm seeing significantly higher temperatures than normal after the melting point, which is exactly what TFA mentioned. The average temperature may be below melting, but that doesn't mean the temperature everywhere is below melting. A higher average temperature means more melt. If you look at years before and after about 1980 on that page, you see that the curve has in general been showing higher temperatures most years after the general melting point.
He's made a lot of cogent points about the course he took. Maybe you should respond to those instead of resorting to character assassination. Instructors who actually care about the classroom are the right people to judge course material. Students have too many other concerns to evaluate objectively.
To paraphrase a great man, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Proof that it is not better: Many people have died who have nothing to do with the conflict. This continues to happen. Ethically speaking, this is worse. Ergo, it is not better. It may have a different balance of rights and wrongs. But it has wrongs that would not exist the other way, so it is not better.
"They" is the wrong word to use here. "They" would not gloat, for example. Terrorists would gloat. Citizens would be happy, except in those cases (crushingly brutal regimes a la Syria, corrupt politicians a la Egypt) where they were not. Either way, it is provably wrong to think that the solution of going in and reducing people to wet chunks is a better one than standing back and acting in more difficult, less dramatic ways.
You've just described the US approach to bioweapons.
Good luck ever entering the most productive part of the attention curve.
Based on Joel Spolsky's suggestion I bought a details adjusTable. Being a heavy guy (nearly 400 lbs), I couldn't get their side-by-side setup with a flat treadmill, so I bought a heavy duty treadmill with the intent of hacking it together with the desk. If I had my time back, I think I'd just have bought the treadmill and one of these.
Having said that, there's a lot to be said for a standing desk with good quality lift and the ability to return to sitting position. You can multipurpose the desk for a lot of different stuff. It takes some work, though.
You don't need to know where the box is to think outside of it. In fact, the less you know about the box, the easier it *IS* to think outside of it.
This is so wrong it hurts.
You and I have very different definitions of non-back-breaking.
Slippery slopes tend to be less slippery when there's a wall of legal text already established to prevent the slope in question from being greased too liberally.
So they must turn off secure booting in order to run another operating system.
From TFA:
While Microsoft have modified their original position and all x86 Windows machines will be required to have a firmware option to disable this or to permit users to enrol their own keys
If they know what they're doing they're ok. Fedora is doing this for the rest of their users.
Where exactly do you expect those laid off to find work? Do you expect that work to be in Canada? Do you expect it to pay as well? Do you expect it to lie in their domain of expertise? Because if the answer to any of those questions is no for a significant number of people, then congratulations, your economy just got smaller, that is to say, there's a possible recession.
In your example, in actual fact, it doesn't necessarily mean you're a cowardly asshole, it can also mean your cultural assumptions are different. But you turn out to be right that there are enough other cues that someone should NOT learn those behaviours. And my point was not that these things teach those lessons so it's ok. My point was that they teach those lessons, full stop. Nobody's learning good sexual conduct from most porn. Nobody's learning social graces from online FPS play.
You can't learn not to do something from something that glorifies that behaviour. You can learn it other places, including when someone says, for example, games and porn are ruining your ability to relate to women. But in general socialization relies on people behaving in a socially acceptable way to each other, and these environments are rife with examples where they quite simply do not.
Porn in general is a terrible way to work your way into sex. The vast majority of pornography out there is so misogynist that it poses a real danger to any eventual partner that a person who was educated thusly might find.
Someone already mentioned Owly. I'll add Agnes Garbowska's work - at 3 you can probably do Yogurt the Ogre, then later on You, Me, and Zombie and her other books. Bone is a huge book that'll be good in a couple of years. There's also Comics in the Classroom's lists.