I'm not sure if many people read TFA but an interesting result:
Schools in Dallas got the simplest scheme and the one targeting the youngest children: every time second-graders read a book and successfully completed a computerized quiz about it, they earned $2. Straightforward -- and cheap. The average earning would turn out to be about $14 (for seven books read) per year.
And in Dallas, the experiment produced the most dramatic gains of all. Paying second-graders to read books significantly boosted their reading-comprehension scores on standardized tests at the end of the year -- and those kids seemed to continue to do better the next year, even after the rewards stopped.
The cheapest program produced the best results.
One clue came out of the interviews Fryer's team conducted with students in New York City. The students were universally excited about the money, and they wanted to earn more. They just didn't seem to know how. When researchers asked them how they could raise their scores, the kids mentioned test-taking strategies like reading the questions more carefully. But they didn't talk about the substantive work that leads to learning. "No one said they were going to stay after class and talk to the teacher," Fryer says. "Not one."
We tend to assume that kids (and adults) know how to achieve success. If they don't get there, it's for lack of effort -- or talent.
doesn't really matter to me. The kids would figure it out. Negative motivation (YOU'LL FAIL!!!!) never worked for me, I just tried to do the minimum amount of work necessary. Why wouldn't I? I have friends from my same [top tier engineering school] that dumped their lives into their work and their offer letters are less than mine. They have 3.9, I have 2.8-2.9 at my school (avg is 2.9).
The interesting thing is when I was cooping (like an internship except you go back to the same company) I was dying to have more challenging work. Why? Because it was my job. All learning was self motivated. It was either "sit around and be bored" or "ask for more work and try to challenge myself and learn things". Guess which one I chose? I didn't fear losing my job for screwing up the harder stuff, nor did I get "grades"-- I just worked on it till I got it right, and then my boss was happy, and I got a paycheck, and I was happy.
The school system does not motivate. I have yet to figure out how these A+ teachers' pets motivate themselves. Meanwhile I got to play a lot more video games than my friends that studied all day. If I got paid cash for the grades [and I got to spend the cash-- IE don't make me give it all up just to keep going to school what's the point in that], I would be so much more motivated.
And as someone who codes, and has hired coders, I would reply "Please don't let the door hit you on the way out, and by the way, there are 199 other people waiting to interview for that position. Please try and stay out of their way as you go down the stairs."
And by the way, the fact that you didn't get that "write something for free" means, a small, noncommercial piece of sample code that demonstrates that you know how to create class foo with a member function that loops from 1 to 10, exits appropriately and returns a string that says "I'm finished." is indication number two that you are a f***ing lamebrain with neither perspective nor common sense.
In short, you just lost the job due to stupidity, an overblown sense of entitlement and childish arrogance. I have time for none of these.
because professionals use language like this all the time. Actually, they don't.
Yeah, HoneyComb, SnowFlakes, Hexagonnaly symmetric Invertebrates (i.e. 6 Legged SeaStars), and Six-Sided Crystals (Rubies, sapphires, emeralds, etc) are all very rare in nature.
only because the basic building blocks of atoms dictate that they arrange in that structure. When they're not rigidly connected (like in an atmosphere) then we're talking about something completely different.
You describe that and I immediately think of a similar scenario where life in animals and our bodies exists naturally apart from it happening with a Prime Mover orchestrating the evolution. It makes my jaw drop to consider that happening without a Prime Mover, but for that the internet metaphorically stones me.
These guys turning down the money are idiots, all idiots. Twitter cannot create the revenue to generate the profit to pay back $500m. Or $900m in the case of Facebook. They [owners] all should have sold it, they're never going to get that kind of money anywhere else. Have you seek Zuckerberg give presentations? The goofball can't even give a proper PR announcement, let alone get people excited about anything Facebook is doing. This goes doubly so when the buyer will let the owner retain control.
Meanwhile innovation will continue and businesses will choose to operate over here because our country has the best IP laws.
I hate Software Patent as much as the next guy, but at least we have some means besides a more powerful copyright to protect our software without divulging anything to the world (GPL).
So, Amazon is selling an ebook reader, and if you buy it and want any new-release books for it (ie books not already on PDF), you have to buy those books from Amazon, and you're calling that a loss leader?
People that want to browse wikipedia and the select few other websites you can visit on the kindle are not going to buy one to visit those websites.
>by sacrificing things like onboard wireless (which adds ~$40 to the cost of the Kindle).
Its not wifi chips that are expensive its the EVDO and the deal Amazon has with Sprint that's expensive. I dont need a EVDO ebook reader. Wifi is good enough. Just give me an offline option if I cant get it on wifi someplace (copy file to USB drive and insert it into ebook reader). Really, there's a huge hole in the market for sub $150 dollar ebook readers. Its probably doable with a smaller eink screen and lack of bell and whistles. The Sony pocket edition reader is pretty close.
They can fund the recurring 3G bill with book sales.
This is why I love going to the gym so much, no joke. Well part of it is having better physique, but getting to go from 110lbs to 180lbs on the incline dumbbell press is a lot of fun. You can even use rare-candies in the form of protein shakes after working out.
Facebook is a video game too, you try to get more posts on your wall by coming up with clever/funny/interesting status updates.
It was rushed. Terrible organization of scenes, none of it made sense. I saw the original one on TV and, owning the DVD, was baffled by how horrible it was. I had no idea. Explains those negative reviews.
Check the Directors Cut. Enjoyed it a lot. Not confusing at all like the theater release was. I'm excited about a 3rd. Pitch Black also notable, just an all-around fun Sci-Fi/Suspense/Thriller.
They probably want to pick the most inexpensive worker rather than the most politically correct one. If they end up with an entire workforce full of H1B employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
FTFY
Watching people get excited about and defend Google gives me terrible nostalgia of Microsoft's history.
I wish I could mod you up. I was squished against a window by some fat guy on my way into Dallas on southwest, and of course it had all kinds of storm delays. The guy was sweaty, smelly, and not at all concerned about suffocating me. I could have only wished the guy was as fat as Smith. This guy barely fit in his seat belt with an extra seat belt to extend it.
but who of us has the balls to say something about it with the person sitting right next to us? I sure don't.
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I'm not sure if many people read TFA but an interesting result:
Schools in Dallas got the simplest scheme and the one targeting the youngest children: every time second-graders read a book and successfully completed a computerized quiz about it, they earned $2. Straightforward -- and cheap. The average earning would turn out to be about $14 (for seven books read) per year.
And in Dallas, the experiment produced the most dramatic gains of all. Paying second-graders to read books significantly boosted their reading-comprehension scores on standardized tests at the end of the year -- and those kids seemed to continue to do better the next year, even after the rewards stopped.
The cheapest program produced the best results.
One clue came out of the interviews Fryer's team conducted with students in New York City. The students were universally excited about the money, and they wanted to earn more. They just didn't seem to know how. When researchers asked them how they could raise their scores, the kids mentioned test-taking strategies like reading the questions more carefully. But they didn't talk about the substantive work that leads to learning. "No one said they were going to stay after class and talk to the teacher," Fryer says. "Not one."
We tend to assume that kids (and adults) know how to achieve success. If they don't get there, it's for lack of effort -- or talent.
doesn't really matter to me. The kids would figure it out. Negative motivation (YOU'LL FAIL!!!!) never worked for me, I just tried to do the minimum amount of work necessary. Why wouldn't I? I have friends from my same [top tier engineering school] that dumped their lives into their work and their offer letters are less than mine. They have 3.9, I have 2.8-2.9 at my school (avg is 2.9).
The interesting thing is when I was cooping (like an internship except you go back to the same company) I was dying to have more challenging work. Why? Because it was my job. All learning was self motivated. It was either "sit around and be bored" or "ask for more work and try to challenge myself and learn things". Guess which one I chose? I didn't fear losing my job for screwing up the harder stuff, nor did I get "grades"-- I just worked on it till I got it right, and then my boss was happy, and I got a paycheck, and I was happy.
The school system does not motivate. I have yet to figure out how these A+ teachers' pets motivate themselves. Meanwhile I got to play a lot more video games than my friends that studied all day. If I got paid cash for the grades [and I got to spend the cash-- IE don't make me give it all up just to keep going to school what's the point in that], I would be so much more motivated.
And as someone who codes, and has hired coders, I would reply "Please don't let the door hit you on the way out, and by the way, there are 199 other people waiting to interview for that position. Please try and stay out of their way as you go down the stairs."
And by the way, the fact that you didn't get that "write something for free" means, a small, noncommercial piece of sample code that demonstrates that you know how to create class foo with a member function that loops from 1 to 10, exits appropriately and returns a string that says "I'm finished." is indication number two that you are a f***ing lamebrain with neither perspective nor common sense.
In short, you just lost the job due to stupidity, an overblown sense of entitlement and childish arrogance. I have time for none of these.
because professionals use language like this all the time.
Actually, they don't.
I'm confused, what?
But hexagons are very rare in nature.
Yeah, HoneyComb, SnowFlakes, Hexagonnaly symmetric Invertebrates (i.e. 6 Legged SeaStars), and Six-Sided Crystals (Rubies, sapphires, emeralds, etc) are all very rare in nature.
only because the basic building blocks of atoms dictate that they arrange in that structure.
When they're not rigidly connected (like in an atmosphere) then we're talking about something completely different.
You describe that and I immediately think of a similar scenario where life in animals and our bodies exists naturally apart from it happening with a Prime Mover orchestrating the evolution. It makes my jaw drop to consider that happening without a Prime Mover, but for that the internet metaphorically stones me.
These guys turning down the money are idiots, all idiots. Twitter cannot create the revenue to generate the profit to pay back $500m. Or $900m in the case of Facebook. They [owners] all should have sold it, they're never going to get that kind of money anywhere else. Have you seek Zuckerberg give presentations? The goofball can't even give a proper PR announcement, let alone get people excited about anything Facebook is doing.
This goes doubly so when the buyer will let the owner retain control.
I'm not getting my hopes up until Netcraft confirms it.
More likely they'll get a Netflix subscription or frequent RedBox.
They're only targeting those that are best, most efficient, hardest working at what they do-- share movies.
Socialism in action. Cut off the productive top while the rest get everything for free.
we never hear of the innumerable claims that get thrown out, only the ones that get heard.
How about we dive in with a bill that fucks everyone over?
Meanwhile innovation will continue and businesses will choose to operate over here because our country has the best IP laws.
I hate Software Patent as much as the next guy, but at least we have some means besides a more powerful copyright to protect our software without divulging anything to the world (GPL).
So, Amazon is selling an ebook reader, and if you buy it and want any new-release books for it (ie books not already on PDF), you have to buy those books from Amazon, and you're calling that a loss leader?
People that want to browse wikipedia and the select few other websites you can visit on the kindle are not going to buy one to visit those websites.
>by sacrificing things like onboard wireless (which adds ~$40 to the cost of the Kindle).
Its not wifi chips that are expensive its the EVDO and the deal Amazon has with Sprint that's expensive. I dont need a EVDO ebook reader. Wifi is good enough. Just give me an offline option if I cant get it on wifi someplace (copy file to USB drive and insert it into ebook reader). Really, there's a huge hole in the market for sub $150 dollar ebook readers. Its probably doable with a smaller eink screen and lack of bell and whistles. The Sony pocket edition reader is pretty close.
They can fund the recurring 3G bill with book sales.
Nah, they pay for the recurring 3G cost through ebook sales.
My first question is-- what is wrong with this guy's face?
http://www.flightgear.org/Gallery-v2.0/target32.html
My second question is--
What's he got in his hand?????
But honestly I hope they are actively evaluating the standards. Just because it's a "standard" doesn't mean it's good and worth using.
This is why I love going to the gym so much, no joke. Well part of it is having better physique, but getting to go from 110lbs to 180lbs on the incline dumbbell press is a lot of fun. You can even use rare-candies in the form of protein shakes after working out.
Facebook is a video game too, you try to get more posts on your wall by coming up with clever/funny/interesting status updates.
going to need a netbook with a graphics chip that support DXVA 2.0
If you have a GMA950 you're SOL.
I've solved one. But then my girlfriend gave me one with numbers instead of colours... Still haven't managed that one.
it's called sudoku.
It was rushed. Terrible organization of scenes, none of it made sense. I saw the original one on TV and, owning the DVD, was baffled by how horrible it was. I had no idea. Explains those negative reviews.
Check the Directors Cut. Enjoyed it a lot. Not confusing at all like the theater release was. I'm excited about a 3rd.
Pitch Black also notable, just an all-around fun Sci-Fi/Suspense/Thriller.
They probably want to pick the most inexpensive worker rather than the most politically correct one. If they end up with an entire workforce full of H1B employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
FTFY
Watching people get excited about and defend Google gives me terrible nostalgia of Microsoft's history.
Huh? Is that you BadAnalogyGuy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm
In this interview he admits there has been no statistically significant global warming occurring for the last 15 years.
"why not build two for twice the price?"/crazy scientist cancer guy from "Contact"
I wish I could mod you up. I was squished against a window by some fat guy on my way into Dallas on southwest, and of course it had all kinds of storm delays. The guy was sweaty, smelly, and not at all concerned about suffocating me. I could have only wished the guy was as fat as Smith. This guy barely fit in his seat belt with an extra seat belt to extend it.
but who of us has the balls to say something about it with the person sitting right next to us? I sure don't.