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Tanzania Education Corp | STEM Teacher | Makuyuni and Karatu, Arusha Region, Tanzania

Seeking an entrepreneurial technologist and STEM teacher for a new secondary school located in Makuyuni, northern Tanzania. Requires an independent and adventurous spirit with a desire to make a difference with the youth of rural Africa. One year commitment.

Background

Tanzania Education Corporation (TEC) is a Boston based NGO whose mission is to Educate the Future Leaders of Tanzania. TEC has worked with Tumaini Junior School, a high performing K-7 primary school in the town of Karatu since 2009. In its first ten years of operation, Tumaini Junior School has consistently ranked in the top 1% of schools in the country. Tumaini Senior Secondary School is a new four year (Forms 1-4) secondary school which opened in January, 2016. The new school is located in the neighboring village of Makuyuni, an hour from Arusha, and has a technology focus.

Responsibilities

- Oversee teaching of Forms 1 and 2 with a co-teacher. In Form 1, students focus on typing, word processing, and basic programming concepts using block-based teaching aids. In Form 2, students use block-based
teaching aids to learn more advanced programming concepts, followed by a transition to writing
actual code.
- Design the curriculum and teach Forms 3 and 4 involving more advanced and independent work.

You Need

- At least a bachelor’s degree
- IT proficiency demonstrated through coursework or relevant work experience - Knowledge of programming languages such as HTML, Javascript, Python or others
- Basic knowledge of hardware to maintain a school computer lab - Teaching experience and international experience in Africa are both highly desirable
- Cultural sensitivity, ability to learn from and work successfully in a different culture

Additional Information

TEC will cover the costs of round trip airfare, visa expenses, as well as local housing and will provide a $500/month stipend to cover living expenses.

http://www.tanzania-schools.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Tanzania-Education-Corporation-4058...

Contact: Frank Lee, Tanzania Education Corporation, frankdlee001@gmail.com
Talking with co-workers who completed 4 year CS degrees, I feel like I got a much better value out of my now defunct 2 year trade school.

Mind you this was 15 years ago, but I came out of it with a decent enough working knowledge of C, C++, VB.Net and Java - and basic understanding of SQL, PLScheme and functional. On top of that there was a solid year of data structure class.

Trade schools have been largely demonized and shut down in the last couple years, but I can say honestly I would not be where I am today without it.

I never would have cut it in college, I did really mediocre in grade school, I had trouble focusing on things I didn't care about. However, in trade school I flourished, largely because I actually cared about what I was learning. I graduated with a 4.0 and I make six figures now.

I genuinely see college requirements as a horrible way to filter useful but unbalanced people like myself out of the work force.
Perhaps his global python doesn’t require sudo... it is pretty easy to install your own or change permissions of the default one, you know.
There is always an advantage to being first; if there wasn't, nobody would ever invest in anything new. Even in your example, the first company to bring gigabit internet to an area can secure some contracts that will still be in place when their competitors respond, so they get a head start when that does happen, which can lead to a longer term market share advantage if they can keep the momentum going. Even if that advantage doesn't last forever, it certainly makes them a lot of money in the meantime.

See: Uber vs Lyft, the iPhone (and, historically, many other Apple products), Coca-Cola, Netflix, etc.
Your last line carries the horrifying implication of air spiders. :S
I would vote for any candidate who made this a pillar of their campaign. I wish we cared about important things :-(
"simply" picking up the water from a lake at night does not sound like a risky kind of flight maneuver to you?
Don't those require booting the computer? It might work, a lot of things are restricted on these computers.
The latest version of iOS makes it so I have to repeat the turn off wifi turn off hotspot turn on hotspot toggle wifi process many times for non-ios wifi connections. My Macbook connects immediately over bluetooth which is nice but the hotspot wifi is more useful to me personally.
I have no idea how I managed to re-find these, but I did. Two recent moderately-related/relevant posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978055

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21220458
Your points are very well stated and need to be reiterated loud and clear if we are to have a hope of bridging the divide in the U.S. Bravo!
There's a huge difference in degree between the ability to keep up to date in CS once you have a foundation and building that foundation from scratch.

I worked for years as a programmer before going back for a degree, and I've hired and worked with many people with and without the degrees.

I've yet to run into someone who self studied their way through the equivalent of a CS degree. I'm sure they exist, but they're pretty damn rare.
>That is, the fund owners have to take their 40% return each year out of the fund.

The Medallion is for the employees money. That reminds about salary payment schema in Russian banks in 199x (don't know for today) - employees got to open very special, employees only, accounts paying extremely high, many times beyond the market, interest. The bank account interest got beneficial taxation for the employees, and the bank didn't have to pay various taxes, like social security, etc., which an employer would normally pay on salary. Of course how much an employee could put into such an account had a limit specific for a given employee, and thus the employee did have to regularly take the money out of the account.
Thirding this. For all the people outside of science who seem to hold it up as this shining example of logical purity, in practice things are far more ambiguous than we're making it out to be.

When I did lab work, results pretty much always had to be viewed through the lense of "Did my technique screw up the data?" before you can even start thinking about the research implications.
This is not the case because one could enumerate the entire 64bit space and perform a rainbow table attack on your scheme.
Ok, I’m trying to set up a block for this within the unifi interface itself. Looks like the best option is a firewall rule dropping all “wan out” traffic originating from my access point. Am I missing a better option?
literally used this this weekend at motel6.

Thanks!
It depends. Say as part of your job you have to read and understand something like this: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~garg/dist/agarwal-garg-DC.pdf (sampled from my work activities today..)

I suspect a CS degree is going to be pretty helpful.

Disclosure: I have a EE degree.
> eat the cost and man-hours of hiring a new employee
> it's just dollars and cents.

A monetary decision was made to terminate my business relation with you... a box will be provided for your tears.
"Cognitive non-repetitive," work as described is basically political work. I've heard it referred to lately as "durable skills." Soft skills are useful tools like others, but the elevation of them above competent work makes for soft ideas.

In the article, the examples of CNR work included "computer scientists," with lawyers, doctors, and managers - all jobs that computer scientists are rapidly augmenting, if not replacing with machine learning. So called CNR work isn't intrinsically valuable. It's artificially gated and the market for them is distorted because of regulatory capture. Tech is changing that.

However, I also think the availability of information on the internet has reduced the status of formerly elite schools to mere managerialist tribes. The schools offered networks and information, and those can't compete with social media. They're still politically influential, but the culture is leaving them behind and they're rapidly becoming just another faction. So, my bias is that the article is about some self-interested critical nonsense advocating a political agenda that won't have cultural traction. I look forward to arguing that point from my farm.
Nope, just grab yourself a RTX 8000 and be able to train latest SOTA models (albeit slowly). Titan RTX is already insufficient and nobody else is in the game for actually owning DL hardware :(
It seems a bit token, though?
Self-taught programmer here, in industry for 10 years now.

> Deadlines

I have these at work.

> Teamwork

I have this at work.

> Communication

I do this at work.

> Prestige

I have this from doing a good job at work.

> Networking

I do this at work.

Sounds like I'll be fine without a CS degree.
Well it's "like a computer unlike any computer"...
test.at
Dead Stealth: Could Russia's S-500 Threaten the F-22 or F-35?
Not sure I understand the question. Everyone in the local area knew that pipes like this leak. Hence it leaking is not a surprise.
I think there's a difference between agreeing to hold the manufacturer harmless for anything that happens and accepting basic liability for purchasing the car and putting it on the road.

I guess jedberg's idea is that there needs to be a place for the buck to start, as it were, wherever it might end up. Currently that is the driver. However, I don't see why it couldn't start with the manufacturer. They could always try to shift blame to the owner if they were misusing it somehow or interfering with its correct operation.
Rust package management is amazing but the language itself is not approachable at all in comparison to Python.
Completely disagree. Programmers come from many different backgrounds. Having a non-CS degree is a strength because it means you see the world from a different perspective and have different skills. For instance programmers with a physics background are highly desirable in several spaces. And there are many people with no degree who make very successful careers.

What matters most is your passion for programming. Because if you are curious enough you will learn all that you need.
Yeah the farmers were pretty much forced to sell the land to the pipeline company. There wasn't a practical choice. The best you could do is to hold out for a somewhat better offer than the first one.
I worked for almost a decade before going back, and I had the same experience.

As for debt, there's no need for crippling debt though if you go to a state school and are planning on working as a programmer.
I think that's mostly as opposed to, say, tree-dwelling spiders... but then again, you know about ballooning, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider)

Key quote: "Even atmospheric samples collected from balloons at five kilometres altitude and ships mid-ocean have reported spider landings."
The audio (^F soundcloud) sounds a little warbly... if that can be largely mitigated, then yes, remixes will never be the same
sorry all i see are armies of skunks. no spiders.
Sabbath: The Reading of the Word
End-to-end encrypted, onion-routed, peer-to-peer instant messaging via Lightning
Microsoft announces it’s ready to contribute to OpenJDK
I found a funny problem with ubiquiti access points. They don't broadcast country code so A neighbouring access point doing so may easily make ubiquity network unusable (many devices, especially macs, disconnect automatically in case they see cc discrepancies).

It may make a nice attack to ubiquity-based infrastructure, their customer support ignores me and nearly advices me to sell the hardware and buy something else.
The marketing line for the iPad pro is "like a computer. Unlike any computer"
Yes, that's correct. For most Windows Server boxes, everything is designed to work in IE and it is guaranteed to exist on the box. MSN is Microsoft's choice as the default homepage for their browsers and MSN, or at least the page that is the default homepage, is typically stuffed with articles and photos chosen to solicit engagement, usually thorough provoking outrage. It has no place in a business environment. Boxes under my control, which aren't many, get duckduckgo set as the homepage.
My 300 and 400 level coursework has helped me repeatedly throughout my career, 14 years later. The two themes that keep coming back: What is a computer, and what is a network? And: massive exposure to relevant languages, data structures, algorithms, and math I would not have bothered to study independently.
If they don't have much worn experience I always look through their transcript.
I for one find insects and spiders to be a profoundly beautiful part of our world, and would severely regret their extinction even if it wouldn't be catastrophically consequential for humans (which to be clear, it absolutely would be). Some of my favorite insects/spiders are: dragonflies, butterflies, praying mantises, ants, cicadas, crickets and orb spiders. Appreciating their delicate beauty is an essential part of the human experience.
I'd look around for web-based tooling where possible.

Potentially you could install some kind of web-based shell on your AWS instance (or maybe Amazon even has something like that?)? If you have a smartphone you could run an SSH client on there for initial setup.

If you don't need to have AWS, there might also be other options. What kind of environment do you need?
I agree with you; I have a CS degree, and when I work with those who learned the programming mechanics (aka making code work) - are often skipped other topics that came in handy for me making other decisions. I can understand why code is slow (eg: BigO for cpu or memory), what structures and algorithms to use in different scenarios (Data Structures & algos), how things are working (Computer Architecture, Programming Languages [theoretical construction of languages], Compiler design), and Automata. Absolutely, these can be learned by oneself - but I find they rarely are.

Edit after thought: Of course, when to use an Array vs a Linked List in your specific language (for example), might not matter if you're doing web apps of medium scale taht one can throw more EC2 instances at
> The problem is CS is constantly changing and you need to be routinely upgrading your skills as time progresses to stay competitive in the marketplace.

CS moves slowly, tooling moves fast.
I say that I never know where I'm but always reach my destination*.

Is weird.

P.D: And almost 90% of time I ask (because i feel lost) "where is X i looking for" and is around the block or even closer...
Zotonic: An Erlang Web Framework
This comment reminded me about "The Knowledge" [0] that London cab drivers must have before they're able to be a cab driver.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom...
This article doesn't answer "why a CS degree is better" but instead "why any degree plus programming knowledge is better" than just programming knowledge. Of course it's better if your time was free, but is a 4-year college degree better than 1-2 years learning to code? That's a huge tradeoff that you'll have to evaluate for yourself. I think not considering this tradeoff is like comparing apples to oranges.
> FB is undervalued

Yes, I too thought myspace stock was undervalued.
Problem is the food web is complex and not well understood.

Just take wolves for instance. Lack of wolves lead to a huge population increase in deer, less trees, less birds, less beavers, more floods, less biodiversity, worse rivers, more erosion, etc. That's just a small sample, there's been several papers published on it if you want to know more.

It wasn't until we reintroduced wolves that we had any idea.

The bottom of the food tree (plants, plankton, and related) are required for life on earth... even us. You can't just pick bees and let the rest die. There's dangers in larger mono cultures. If we just keep the most productive bees for pollinating our food the diversity will be radically decreased and the parasites, fungus, and diseases will become ever better adapted.

Much like what's being fought over the most popular banana, that experts think is doomed because of the huge mono culture and once a fungus becomes adapted will spread through out the supply chain and doom any attempts to raise that same banana.

Sure we might be able to add more poison, genetic engineering, and other high tech solutions... at a cost... or maybe we will try and fail.

As the load of agriculture on the ecosystem increases very bad results are more likely. Just this week I read something on the use of Neonicotinoids use in rice fields in japan having a huge impact on the fisheries. Apparently getting rid of those pesky non-bees lead to a fishery collapse because there was nothing left for the fish to eat. Said fish weren't eating those non-bees, but the chemicals did impact what they did eat.
> It never would have occurred to me that aircraft tough enough for the heat and turbulence and debris over a forest fire could be affected by drones

If ignorance is an excuse, then drone operators should be tested on such knowledge and licensed. Someone who doesn't realize their drone can impact another aircraft shouldn't be operating drones in the first place.
> It's a fun implementation, but not serious

Well obviously, how was this business going to scale? Op can't keep making more kids in case the business really takes off.
Sigh. I thought about trying an open source router before settling on a Ubiquity AP + USG. It seemed like a solid investment, into a company that was pretty well trusted.

The lesson I’m learning is, maybe it’s worth it to pay more to get less sometimes.
>”Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

Michael Crichton - Why Speculate: http://docdro.id/4wgVecr
AMD is worth ~40B today. FB is worth ~550B today. AMD supplies a product in growing demand while FB supplies access to demographics in growing demand. But the downside risks are not the same. It only took FB’s viral growth to end MySpace. User loyalty is far more fleeting than the market for CPUs. Within five years or your preferred investment time horizon, compare the valuations of each firm and see how your assessment stood the test of time.
The Next Frontier for Electric Vehicles: Deep Underground
A toddler is basically a human that just booted. I'm not sure they have enough entropy to generate a good password. :-P
Richard Feynman told a story that when he was at Los Alamos during WW2, he was put in charge of the nascent computing group using the brand new IBM computers to run physics calculations. The army recruited a bunch of high school math whiz kids to handle all the punch card loading and running the machines, and Feynman was in charge of the kids.

Eventually the pressure from Feynman to keep up the pace of calculation was so great that the kids, keeping track of program progress in their heads, would yell at him anytime he came into the computer room to ask a question because it meant losing track and having to restart the programs which were many, many cards. This meant losing days of precious time if they had to start over or if a program broke.

Finally the kids got so stressed debugging (and failing to debug) these long running programs that they devised a way to run multiple programs at alongside each other by color coding the punch cards, and then recording break points in the programs when they failed. This allowed them to keep the machines always running with one kid in charge the different variants of the programs they were running.
Same here, getting close to hitting 7 figures. Never stepped foot in a university but I was coding from 13 and working part time from about that age. Uni just seemed like a waste of time as the CS curriculum was already out of date for modern development in the country I'm from (this was mid 90s and internet was taking off).

I would not recommend this career track if you're the kind of person that wants to climb a career ladder and go into management on the business side of things, there are definitely useful skills to acquire on the legal and softskills side. Having any degree will just check a box and help people without a clear view of what they want out of the future. It can also help if you want to put yourself through being just another number at a FANG organisation.

Too stubborn and arrogant to allow someone to tell me I'm incapable of being a success without a piece of paper.
I don't believe this, I think some people are imbued with a sense of direction and others aren't. Some are only capable of following turn by turn instructions, they don't comprehend where they are in relation to anything.

My two older kids have the worst sense of direction I've ever encountered but my 3 year old has built in GPS. We were all in the car going somewhere one day and sitting at an intersection my 3 year old says "the Indian restaurant is over there" and points in the direction of a restaurant we frequent that was about 1/2 mile away. The 14 year old looks at me confused and I nodded "yes".

I work in a building that's rotationally symmetrical and the only indications of orientation are the carpet colors for the 4 quadrants. I'm consistently amazed at how many people will get off an elevator and have no idea which direction to go. I've tried given cardinal directions to no avail, some people are just oblivious to their surroundings.
I'm sure you've thought of this, but could/have the tracks from the Rock Band games be used for training?

There are thousands of them and they're separated into different instrument tracks. They even had bands re-record songs sometimes where seperate masters couldn't be found. If I recall correctly, Third Eye Blind did this for Semi-Charmed Life.
I'm not unaware of the argument that candidates should release their tax returns, but it is not the law right now.

Up until the point that access to Trump's tax returns was mentioned the article was warning about the false privacy associated with anonymizing identity.

I can understand the argument that candidates should reveal their financial history. But that doesn't mean otherwise reasonable concerns about false anonymity should be suspended when talking about the anonymity of one particular person who has explicitly asserted their privacy rights.

Even if you think the authors were making a more general statement about all candidates and not just Trump, that seems like a terrible argument to me. In the cases of candidates for office, voters are free to penalize candidates who don't reveal enough information about themselves by not voting for them. There is no need to soften any privacy concerns about anonymized identities.
It's a lot easier to learn complex math and CS topics with a guide than with other people at the same level. There's a reason study groups often end up in the math lab asking for guidance.
I'll take the bait and argue that using dogs as weapons is animal abuse.
In my neighborhood, on a dead end street we would make cars wait while a hockey play was in flight. One more second please Mrs. Stevenson!

That same street is a ghost town not really because of cars but two things. 1. Empty nesters didn't move out and 2. The kids that are there would rather be in front of a screen then wonder outside.

If you saw a kid outside you would jump out the door and play. That doesn't happen like it use to.