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Unfortunately mobile phones don't support the rollover event.

I assume this is why Apple went with the toggle UI. The problem with toggles is you need a very short description. (on/off, yes/no, etc)

Worse, for those of us not developing only for the iPhone, there are drawbacks. There are javascript and jQuery solutions for this. But then you need to require javascript and download some images and it adds complexity, makes things more fragile, is harder to maintain, adds concerns over compatibility, and I don't even know if there are performance issues.

So I guess there are some trade offs.
189?! I've been trying for ages and the best I can do is 233. Any pointers? I can't compete with that, but would be great to have an idea why I'm so far off :)
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At least, probably should center the video and push the features list down. The big white space in the noble area feels wrong.
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I get into the same arguments with kids wearing Che shirts. It's not worth it. Being evil is one thing, being evil and losing a war against us makes you the villain forever.
No, period.

-- but slightly "yes" only if you like to much the idea of George Orwell
Learning Paths: compile a database where you specify a goal, possibly a fairly vague one, and users contribute the bits of knowledge that would be useful to accomplish it, all the way down to the very basics.

So if the goal were "Write a 3D graphics engine", users would collaboratively add items going all the way back to, say, basic geometry or trig.

I was thinking that llvm sounds pretty interesting, but I don't know anything much about compilers or interpreters, so not only do I not know how I could use llvm, but I'm not clear on what it could do. Another 'learning path' could lay out what knowledge and/or experience I'd need to build to get to the point of being able to understand and use llvm for an interesting project.

This could also be useful for teachers. A kid interested in video games could see the things they ought to learn and master, and would see how they build on each other. That would help answer the "when am I ever going to use this" question.
Add some more whitespace? Feels cluttered.
The are focusing. You may disagree with the object of their focus, but the alternative (e.g more broad surveillance of the general public) is far less pleasant.
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There is no "beer" in that entire sentence. Your keyboard is obviously malfunctioning.
I think the problem with education is the same problem we have with health care. That is, the belief that every single problem can be solved by just increasing the budget.
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What if you just have middling kids? I agree with the gist of your statement, but I'd back up a bit. Put 10 kids from families where education is a key concern under an oak tree and they will do better than 10 similar kids at the fancy school. I'm all for making teacher's unions more responsible, but they aren't whats failing inner city/rural schools. Its culture, family, and community. If a respect for education doesn't exist in a community no amount of money, technology, teacher reform, or grants will make a difference.
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I still fail to see why there is always this choice proposed that you can either have a educational system driven by test scores or have teachers who are able to teach students correctly, but not both.

Time and time again I hear the argument that teachers now have to "teach the test". If it's possible for a teacher to "teach the test", and students can pass it just by route memorization, well then surely these are some pretty horrible tests!

It's rare to hear people want to reform the actual format and content of the tests to ensure that "teaching the test" is less possible. You could argue, for example, allowing more free-form answers, or creative test formats that allow students to display critical thinking skills to the grader would do just as much to reduce the "teaching to the test problem" as throwing out tests as the primary means of evaluating performance, but you don't really hear this argument all that often.

Admittedly I know little about it, but I find it pretty hard to believe that the best teachers, who do engage their students and provide them a solid education, end up with classrooms of worldly students that end up failing standardized tests.
So what you're saying is that all problems are caused by idiots, and things are as good as they possibly can be given the existence of idiots and the fact that they are apparently in majority, therefore it's futile for us enlightened folks to try to improve education in general, and the best course of action is to join Mensa and home school our kids.
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That details everything behind Guildwork for those that are curious.
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"fails to provide any clear examples of what makes a good teacher"

I can provide what I believe the be an example of a good teaacher: When I was in highschool I had a number of teachers but the one who stuck out the most a man who taught us religious education (I went to Catholic school.) On the first day of class, this man, to show just how important he thought that this one point was, dropped to his knees and shouted. His enthusiasm grabbed my attention and made the lecture much more interesting.

This man tought us more classes and each one he tought with a sense of dynamism and enthusiasm which was infectious. He knew his subject matter, was passionate about it, was intellectually curious, wanted us to be so as well. Not only did he hold himself to high standards, he held the class to high standards as well, and all of his together made us, particularly me, want to learn.

I once had the privilaege to sit in on the disertation of a man who was discussion what he believed the best approach to education was. His conclusion was that a teacher's role was was to act as a sort of guide to the student. To inspire the student and motivate him to learn. His belief was that teaching was first and formost, a relationship between the student and the teacher.

I agree. Growing up I loved school, but I went to a very small school with a very strong sense of community. I knew all the teachers and they all knew me and it helped to make learning a very rewarding experience. I think the crux of it is this: most of my immediate role models growing up loved to learn and loved their subjects and I learned from them to learn and an appreciation of the same subjects.

In today's public schools, there is a certain lack of interpersonalization eityher due to management style, regulations, or budget issues, which makes it harder for the teachers to connect with the students and teach. I don't know what the root cause of this is, but I think it is a major factor in the ineffectiveness of the system.
Does Yahoo! even have $2 billion to spend on something? I don't remember them buying anything above a few million in a long time and Groupon doesn't scream 'turning around the fortunes of the company' to me
Must have been, we had an event at Sly Fox on New Years last year. We have an event coming up there on Saturday the 30th for Halloween, probably worth checking out if you're a fan.
All of the graphs in this article were of 'childhood wakeup time.' The conclusion was that smarter children wake up later than dumber children.

One possible explanation of this: children in privileged families don't have to take the bus or walk to school. Therefore, they can afford to wake up 40 minutes later on weekdays! So they go to sleep later. They also live in safe neighborhoods where it's reasonable for teenagers to be out at one in the morning.

You can draw almost no conclusions from this article. It's embarrassing how many people want to spin this to "I'm smart cause I stay up late."
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fuckin nice. now I feel like a doofus for using ruby, when I thought it was straightforward.
Yeah, it's a little strange that it actually sits in the same basic ecosystem as everything else on the other side of the microsoft stack and yet manages to be worse even than the MS offerings.

Frankly even considering the vendor lock-in implicit in being wed to the MS stack, I'd take that option over CF any day of the week. That said I see no reason to choose between different degrees of poison when there's plenty of good clean water around.
KIPP does well, but it is very much at odds with the way a normal school is run. KIPP schools demand a hell of a lot from the teachers who work there. You need people of high ability and dedication who are mostly motivated by the intrinsic reward of a job done well. These people are like the Special Forces of education, and I don't think there are that many of them. I'd love to be wrong.
Well, switching our schools to a model of choice, where parents choose where to send their kids, really is a meta-solution beyond test scores. Test scores are used to exemplify kids' behavior because it's easy, it's concrete (in the "what gets measured gets managed" sort of way), but I doubt most parents who flee district schools for charter schools start or end with test scores: instead they consider culture, goals, outcomes, safety. The test scores are used to prove good charter schools can be, and are better than district schools, but they aren't the only measure - just the most compact one to communicate.

There's a more general problem that judging a teacher concretely, fairly, consistently, is damn-near impossible. I don't think there's an easy answer to the question of what an administrator would use in the absence of value-added education (i.e. the application of test scores), but I'll bet the parents act independently of that system, and serve as a check on it.
quakelive has modified the stock maps to add billboards (that don't effect the flow of the map), They are mostly empty and just show a generic quakelive logo, currently. Once they get some advertisers, I don't think it would be that intrusive, but they do definitely look like billboards, and may look out of place once actual ads, with colors that don't match the theme of the map, are shown on them.
I loved Flixpulse and was disappointed that it didn't stay updated. Lately, Twitter searches have been doing the job for me though, example: watched "social network"
That is exactly what I do and it has worked out pretty well. If they don't use the Excel sheet, then I know they wouldn't much care to use my ERP module either. Saves time and resources.
Wow, this is a gonna be a $2.5K pay cut for us, straight up. We used to take our kids to the doctor whenever they were showing signs of sickness - fever, cough, runny nose, skinned knees. Now we're going to have to weigh whether they're sick enough to shell out $20 to take them to the doctor. And I guess this is the end of lollipop Tuesdays.
You're more likely to find lua or sometimes python in modern games than assembly. Scripting has become a big part of many games, and lua has found its niche by virtue of being relatively light weight and quite easy to interface with from C/C++.

I don't think I've seen any assembly that was actually enabled in the games I've worked on in the last five years, though I do know where there's a tiny bit in my current project that's #if'd for older environments. That's just stuff like atomic operations that every modern compiler provides built-ins for now.

The link is great, thanks!
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The idea that people maybe called idiots just because they dont care what os runs their phone is depressing all the more.

I would go on a limb here and hazard to say, that just because certain people don't care about version numbers and esoteric features, doesn't mean they are not intelligent.

People discriminate in accordance to their passions. I can't make much of current shoe fashions and advanced textile materials, nor do I care, I hope that doesn't qualify me as an idiot.
Fair enough. Though I'd argue on "entirely solvable by pencil and paper", since the answer is an educated guess in that case and the proof that it's correct resides in checking with the webpage. ;-)

To be honest, in the same amount of time, one could also estimate the range where the answer should be and plug it one by one in the form until it validates. (which we'll call a less educated guess :))
Wow! Great game - and multiplayer too. How long has it bee around?
Hmm, looks like they shut Google wave down. I'd like to give them a piece of my mind! I'll just use GOOG-411 to ca...wha?!
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I'm excited by the number of people who have said this about the movie, as well as the debate about 'the right education reform' that the movie has spurred. Regardless of which side each person is on, it's clear that everyone is uniting under a common goal - to improve our nations schools - and it's inevitable that we would all have slightly different approaches and goals.

What I wonder is how many people like yourself will take that sudden gnawing question and begin working towards the change you believe in. Will it create a new wave of activists, movers, shakers and changers? Or just change the popular topic of conversation at cocktail parties and social news websites?
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The opinion card trumps the opinion card ad nauseum. However, I prefer well written (and civil) opinionated film reviews if for no other reason a strong opinion creates discussion and interest.

Further, specific and concrete examples of "good teachers" presented by either the film maker or reviewer would have been absurd (but the review's point was the the film didn't even attempt to address the issue of a good teacher). The notion of a "good teacher" is absurd, I think, because it doesn't exist. Consider your kindergarten teacher and advanced math prof. One was probably nurturing and kind, the other an expert in a complex subject. What do these two people have in common that can be communicated in the 90 minutes alloted to a film or the 5 minutes alloted to a blog post?
I agree, the issue as it's argued tends to become a false dichotomy. I've always found testing to be one of the most effective techniques for learning. That's not to say standardized tests are most effective types of tests for learning, but they certainly have their place in a public educational system.

But hell, what do I know? I also think rote memorization gets a bad rap.
Well I think its a good idea with a potentially big snackable market to go after considering the number of MMORPG's out there.

Looks like you have a ton of data in the app, hence the busy/clutter feel you get. Is all that data put in by hand, ie- i just won The Rock Uberness +12 killing to Bats, and I put it in the app, indicate how much dkp it cost, who i was with etc.

I'd almost rather see your app as an app in facebook where they do the hard work in providing the platform for communication/connectedness and you focus on all the bit elements around it.

If all this data goes in by hand and i suspect is does, the feeling of work overcomes me but i'm no the hardcore raider. Hardcore fanboys will probably dig it but they want some sex in the app bad. The RiotACT feels sexy but feels stuck as well.

I think you need to take 10 steps back, breathe, sit down with 5 different types of users, the noob that just joined the guild, the guy thats been there awhile, the crazy rabid collect everything on the planet girl, PVP master dude X that likes to hurt people and the guy/girl who started the guild in the first place. Talk simple flows outloud without looking at anything. Then go back to your app and figure out a way to REMOVE 50% of what you see. Refine, present it to those 5 peeps and go from there.
It looks similar to mine, but you got lucky (or unlucky depending on how you look at it) that the longest palindrome had an odd character count.

The confusing bits in the Ruby are actually just the definition of an even and odd palindrome finder, which are the same except for two seed values for where the first comparison is conducted and it's length.
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I disagree. While all those things you note (culture and family) are extremely important... remember that kids spend a LOT of time in school. In fact it might be the majority of their waking hours. Schools make a huge difference. And good teachers do too.

I've seen great teachers in horrible schools make a huge difference. The tough part though is that follow-up with kids is tough. You see a class make incredible improvements one year and then over the next four years have less than stellar teachers again. They slowly give back what thy've gained.

This is why the Harlem Children Zone is an example of the right step.
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It appears that it uses an older dataset, which might not have had a page titled iPad.

Apple Inc. and Apple Computer both link with 3 hops, so the iPad has at most 4 hops by that logic.
Also, the last time I checked, you can't just "memorize" your way into passing standardized tests outside of perhaps spelling and vocabulary tests.

Have you taken a standardized test lately? I'm 23, and I've taken at least a dozen of them. Every single one I have taken has tested my ability to learn the test at least as much (if not more, cough SATs cough).

Color me cynical, but i believe it's a scam, perpetuated by the powers entrusted with administering these tests, who in turn are influenced by lobbies for the 'test prep' industry.
Start writing code as soon as possible. The earlier you start writing it, the earlier you'll actually understand what you're doing.

Even typing in examples verbatim from books will force you to start paying at least a little attention to what the code is doing. If that's too boring, try re-implementing examples without referring back to how they did it in the book.
Just these, the source of which seems to be repeated all over the internet, and I can't attest to any amount of validity aside from their widespread use:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/26/nook-passes-kindle-sale...
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For x sufficiently small, sin(x) looks like x (x in radians). That's because if you write the Taylor's series expansion of sin(x) and ignore high order terms, you get x. The property you are looking for is continuity.
Wow, have you ever looked into selling that domain name? A 2 letter .com would be worth a fortune, I would think a 22 letter .org would be worth quite a bit too.
I've seen 3 or 4, 2 kindles, 1 Sony, and 3 iPads. But I'm hardly a representative sample size.

I'd love to see real figures for both, but I haven't heard of any.
Side projects are where it's at, because they're typically low cost up front. You're just doing it for yourself. If no one likes it then you can ditch it or just use it for yourself for whatever purpose. No big loss. But if it turns out you're building something that people are passionate about, then you can turn it into a business without all the risk of going into it like a business from the very beginning.

http://getclicky.com started as an internal project for another company I worked for a few years ago. It was profitable 4 months after launch, and revenues are doubling ever year. 2010 will be about $1M. We are happy with that.
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Facebook is out of the question because a lot of MMO players do not want to mix their real life with their virtual life.

All the profiles and feed updates on the site are automatic through our crawlers.

The DKP is manual and for many games this is fine because they are already doing it manually. For WoW we have an add-on coming that should automate a lot of it.

Design is an issue that we are attempting to fix as said in our original post. I completely agree.

I think a flaw at the moment is we have 0 negative feedback from the thousands of users that we do have because they are not WoW players. WoW players are more picky and we are aware of that so now we will attempt to change things to appease them.
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An objective standard for what is a good teacher or not can never work. It will be immediately gamed. It's like art, movies, music, etc. You and I immediately know if something is good or not, but we cannot write a set of rules defining good.
All of the graphs in this article were of 'childhood wakeup time.'

AFAICT, it appears to be a graph of childhood IQ vs. adult wakeup time - unless, that is, the average child is going to bed around midnight, which seems wrong to me.

In any case, though, I don't think these graphs have much to say about any true night-owls - if you're anything like me, you're not going to bed a few minutes after midnight, it's more like 6 AM, which would probably remove us from this data set altogether as outliers...
I checked and this is the dev version of chrome right? The dev version has JavaScript errors in the Jquery library. I am looking into why this is. Thanks.
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How does one master the material yet fail the test?
I think one of the major issues with standardized test is how they are structured. I spent most of my education in Canada (Quebec) and we had test government created test at the end of the semester for each subject. These test were usually used to adjust the grades given during the semester to more reflect the performance on this test. Teachers could give you all As but the end of semester test would tell if you really learn most of what the class was supposed to teach.

I finish high school (last 2 years) in Florida where I had to take the FCAT. The first thing that I found dumb about this test was that it wasn't at all tied to the subjects I was learning. It was meant to test more generic level concepts, in turn this exam was a pure joke and proved nothing other than a lot of kids have trouble writing an essay.

My point is, standardized test should be used to keep similar classes at different schools from diverging too much curriculum wise. An algebra class at school X shouldn't be completely off from the same course at school Y. Testing random problem solving skills and language isn't going to help with that.