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I think there's two sides to the story.

Actually, no, there's more than two sides to the story, and the idiots who think there are two sides to the story and making everything worse:

* Some teachers are awful, and the unions protect them. They also manipulate educational policy, both to improve teacher conditions (which is fair enough - that's their job), and to push the pet beliefs of a couple of batty union leaders.

* Most teaching "methods" (fads) suck, and are cooked up by the kind of people who get PhDs in "education" - ivory tower researchers who can't do, and can't teach, but can publish in a naval-gazing journal.

* Most "methods" (fads) require mounds of paperwork, so the teachers can prove they are complying.

* Direct Instruction (DI) was found to be the best teaching method by far, the last time they did any serious research. However, it does cramp creative teachers, and it's quite possible that more serious research will find better methods (possibly based on DI, but not as anal), but the opponents of DI don't want serious research (as their pet "methods" suck, compared to DI, and they know it) and DI fans think the problem is solved.

* Some kids are "special needs". Some kids are dumb. Some kids are smart. Some kids just look dumb because they aren't motivated, and some kids just look smart because they are being pushed hard, and nobody can agree what "smart" and "dumb" means. Mixed classes are good in some ways, but they can't be too big (or the teacher can't help the outlying kids). Big classes are good for the better kids, but only if they are streamed.

* Text books are often terrible.

* School work can be assessed (extrinsically motivated) or un-assessed (intrinsically motivated). Extrinsic motivation drives out intrinsic motivation, but some assessment is necessary. The current trend is to pile on more assessment (both tests and formally assessed homework) under the assumption that kids have already been jaded by the existing assessment, and no longer care about learning for learning's sake.

* We are spending too much, and not enough.

* Finally, there's rarely any end goal in mind. Or there are several end goals, and everyone forgets which ones are important. Feeding universities, creating a skilled workforce, providing opportunities for poor kids, getting good numbers in international tests, and most importantly convincing parents (voters) that something needs to be done, and we are already doing all that is humanly possible to help YOUR child beat the kid sitting next to them.
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>Direct Instruction (DI) was found to be the best teaching method by far, the last time they did any serious research.

Do you have any good links that describe what this is? All I seem to be able to find is pages talking about how good it is, but none with a description of it that made any sense to me.
I choose not to pretend my decisions aren't selfish.
I find it odd that people think the web killed HyperCard, when its descendants have been part of every office suite for the last 20 years in the form of scriptable presentation software. You can even make games in Powerpoint if you're willing to kill a few braincells using VBA.
How much was the war in Afghanistan just to get Osama Bin Laden?
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Do you have any stats that break down where the money goes? That's probably the most interesting statistic.
It's a faddy method, but one that works. It puts a lot of emphasis on fundamentals, but students who focus on fundamentals (in class) are found to be able to do creative stuff with the material out of class. "Wax on, wax off, now go kick ass".

It's very anal, like I said.

The teachers get a DI textbook (made up by the inventor of DI). The teacher reads from the text book, and asks the whole class to respond on cue.

The whole class responding on cue is an important point, as it keeps the students thinking. "Everybody, what's 12 * 8?"

It uses lots of repetition, and a few standardised instructions to the class.

"Everybody open your books, to page 23. One two three. Everybody should have their books open. Put your finger on the word "MY". One two three ... Now everybody read out load ..."

Interesting factoid - "The Pet Goat" (think 911, George W. Bush in a classroom) was a DI book.
Well, it's not as if I stick with the academic definition of refactoring myself.
only in those traditional forms of governance that are semi-compulsory to one degree or another. free immigration between competing systems of governance allow each unit to have coherence of vision while still allowing people to choose freely about what sort of ideological vision they agree with.

This was a genius political invention. The result was called something like the "unified states", but it was destroyed in a civil war and lost to history. I hear books from that civilization survive, but no one reads them.
Do you have any statistics that compare the teacher pay of the US and Canada? The US spends more on education per pupil than almost every country in the world (some years I believe it is number one). I would be shocked if the US didn't pay more than Canada, on average.
The question is about the ethics, not legality in the US.
hmm i think you should try google trends to see which is the most best language for web development that is trending.
This isn't meant to be a rhetorical question so please feel free to show me the light. A constant drumbeat from teachers seems to be complaints about standardized testing. Are there really any better ways to measure progress across the board? All of us here should be fans and encouragers of standards, right?
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this is what happens when idiots discover graphs for the first time.
Thanks for your interest and the questions. Hope you find all answers below:

What did you use to build it?
cronsync is built on CakePHP.

How are you marketing it?
Actually we developed cronsync for the use in our own agency while working for our clients. We are a small agency with 4 developers and do not have a marketing department. The main marketing tools are blogs and word of mouth.

What are you doing to try to get users?
We are constantly contacting blog writers and doing some PR related activities. We are screening the web for our competitors and our topics and try to make something out of this information.

How has your usage been growing?
We are just starting to promote cronsync and currently count approx. two new registrations per day.

What problems did you have?
The most challenging thing was actually finding the time to develop cronsync in addition to our normal work for our clients as a web agency.

Are you doing A/B testing on your landing page? What's your conversion rate?
No, we currently are using just one landing page. There are not enough users that an A/B testing would bring representative results.

When do you expect to start charging?
We plan to start charging once we have 10,000 registered users. ;-) This year will be the testing phase and we want to take the feedback from our users as well as the time to improve cronsync further. As we earn money with our current agency clients, we are not reliant on earning money with cronsync from scratch.

How will you decide your price points?
We want to be better and cheaper than our competitors.

Will you have multiple account types?
There will be a very simply system. One monthly fee per user. Depending on the future developments we might also offer other account types.

What have you left out? And why?
We have not developed any apps or widgets so far as we thought our time was better spent on the cronsync core features.

Can you make available your analysis of the market? Why do you think you've hit the sweet spot?
We are not the first to create a time tracking and invoicing app. But cronsync is very user friendly and supports essential features in combination we could not find elsewhere:
Different hourly rates for different job roles/clients and different hourly rates for internal and external use
Dashboard with transparent view on the real profitability of projects and clients
Generates professional and nicely formatted invoices from the time tracking data, adjustable detail level of invoices
Easy integration of internal and external staff such as freelancers or affiliates

Can I get my data back out again? In what formats? Is it encrypted when it's stored?
There is a csv and xml export available. The connection is save and there is an encryption for passwords but the other data is not additionally encrypted.

Best, Jakob
Since you are here: Is pandamian intended to be just for fiction? I have a book idea that I actually want to work on and I only want to do e-books. I haven't started in part because I didn't really have a vehicle/format for it.
I think this myth is largely believed within Japan, too, at every level of Japanese society I have access to. (From retirees to college kids to governors.) That doesn't make it true, but I'd be careful about characterizing it as wily Asians trying to pull one over on whitey. (Japanese cell phones in Chinese paper boxes counting as Chinese cell phones, on the other hand, is totally according to plan.)
Provided that to you, a "good introduction" is something with a lambda-calculus extension and a reduction semantics, the 2002 paper by Findler and Felleisen[1] is a good read.

1. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11....
On education in particular, school choice is common in much of western Europe, and that seems to go some way towards mitigating the effects of government involvement.
Appears to be mostly good information, though I'm surprised he paints UTF-16 in such a positive light ("optimized for languages residing in the 2 byte character range."). UTF-16 should be considered harmful:

http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2011/02/utf-8-good-utf-16-bad.ht...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049947/should-utf-16-be-...
If your domain needs are limited to classic tdls (.com, .net, .org) I'do go with nearlyfreespeech [1].

They are one of the few bullshit-free hosting/registrar companies out there.

[1] http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
There's a mention his father went to India for treatment. Is that because they are particularly good at treating ALS, or is it a health insurance issue?

But it takes incredible willpower to continue doing anything in situation like this. My hat's off.
It's a stack-efficiency hack, a way to rewrite your (mutually) recursive functions such that the compiler knows it can reuse stack frames instead of growing the stack at every function call. This breaks some debugging methods, but the fact it allows a lot of code that would otherwise blow out the stack to run has made it worthwhile enough for the Scheme people to mandate it in the language standard.

You do this by making sure nothing is waiting for the result of the last function your function calls; its return value is your function's return value.
A lesser known WW2-era legacy is the Japanese Unit 731 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 which perpetrated horrific experiments upon great numbers of Chinese and some POWs.

Unlike the Nazi experiments these don't seem as well known in the west, though they've had a potentially greater effect. I say potentially because most of the doctors were pardoned (the ones that weren't captured by the Russians) and several rose to prominence in Japanese medical circles. The results of Unit 731 are mostly classified, and have been used to jumpstart biological weapons programs in both the USSR and the US (at least one Unit 731 doctor moved to the US to work on bioweapons).
This is similar to the Japanese pedagogical style at my university, and our grads ROFLstomp peer schools' grads at speaking ability. "Class, you are going to the cinema this afternoon at five. Where are you going? Everyone." "I am going to the cinema at five.". "Good. Patrick, you." "I am going to the cinema at five.". "Good. Patrick, ask Tom. Tom, you are going to the restaurant at seven."

Repeat an hour a day every day for three years and you get really effing good. (Conversations in the third year are, obviously, more elaborate.)
Indeed the company I used to work for would be never capable of such a feat.

1. They would take at least a month to notice (if at all),
2. Nobody would go to write an actual response,
3. The customer would be flagged as "that pedantic asshole",
4. Any internal dissenters who would notice the whole deal would be ignored or coerced into obedience.

Oh and not to mention that said organization has immense illusions of grandeur.
We've many sites running on domains registered with GoDaddy
(but hosted elsewhere) and have not noticed any problems.

Still, if you're looking for an alternative, try:

http://www.moniker.com/

HTH
FWIW, i saw it a week ago when you posted it.
I'm no security expert, but I don't think you even need an out-of-band key exchange mechanism. Just use public key cryptography [1], as used in SSH/TLS/PGP/GPG.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
I can see that demotivating your casual attacker, however if somebody like the CIA or NSA has decided they want to spy on you specifically, the cost of doing so is probably not going to stop them.
Anders Sandberg has a great Google TechTalk on Whole Brain Emulation you may find of interest here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRB6Qzx9oXs&feature=playe...
As an aside, I find that thanks to online web fiction and self publishing I found some works I really enjoyed but probably would never have been published by any publisher... I think that whenever you have gatekeepers like this, they can get a bit too conservative and tend to only accept work that is similar to successful works.

For example,
An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom http://www.meilinmiranda.com/intimate-history An erotic (but not the main focus) coming of age story in a victorian world.
It's really good and original, but it mixes so many genres and is so different from what I'm used to that I wouldn't expect any mainstream publisher to publish it...

The other big example of this is some works of fanfiction like Eliezer's Yudkowski Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality which is popular here... It would never be published because it's fanfiction but it's original and is quite different from what I'm normally used to by mainstream publishers...
I remember test driving a Yaris, which was the first car I'd driven with a digital speedo. That was incredibly distracting, because I kept trying to get exactly on the speed limit. It was actually dangerous.
According to this Cato report. Since the 1970s the US doubled spending per child. Scores did not improve but they doubled the number of school bureaucrats (e.g. not teachers) per student.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12792
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And you believe that the value of this observation is what, exactly?

That we are wasting energy which has been stored and untapped for hundreds of thousands of years? Do we really expect that our ancestors will be better able to exploit this value than we are... without our given expliotation? Will this be true forever? Should we just let that stored energy remain forever?

Ceteris parabis, we will extract exactly as much value from our ancestors as makes sense. And our ancestors will do exactly the same. I do not begrudge them that any mire than I begrudge us this current state of affairs.
Theoretically, yes, but devices which do not output all of a book's text to anything which claims to be a Braille reader are easier to develop DRM for.
I suspect Roel is Belgian. "Breathing" would in his context refer to euphimism for a leaky house.
The challenge was:

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We get a list of up to 50 activities and an associated calorie value for each (either positive or negative), we need to find a subset of activities where the sum of all the calorie values is zero.

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Did anyone else here immediately think to write a function hard coded to return the empty set?
Nothing is ported to HTML5, you made a emulator though. Porting != emulating!

Great work!
Speaking for the US and UK, I'd hardly call what we had in '06 particularly liberal. DHS in particular springs to mind...
The source files say they are dual licensed under MIT and GPLv2.
I wasn't replying to Eliezer… And I think I agree with you. And:

> so it's of more use to someone who has been diagnosed with a fatal disease, or is getting on in years

I read this as "Cryonics is more useful for you if you are ill or old". (1) I agree, and (2) at this point, insurance companies may make it less affordable, for you.

My point is, if you wait too long (typically until illness or senescence), then Cryonics could become so expensive that the utility/cost ratio decreases, despite the fact that utility itself greatly increased.
Projects not receiving much love after the original authors give it up isn't unique to projects written in ocaml.
Some high quality user generated content sites seem to have been impacted by this change too. My main site (see my about for details) has lots great car reviews, which are unique to the site, yet my Google US traffic has fallen off a cliff.

If my site is a content farm, then surely so are sites like Stack Overflow and Trip Advisor, as I'm using the same model of moderated and curated user generated content, and while I don't think my site is quite as useful as Stack Overflow (what is?), I've been running this site as a labour of love since 1997, and I've had countless emails from people who've found the site useful, so I must be doing something right.
Same and same.

This wasn't ''bad'' per se, and as an aspiring indie author I've faced the same issues so can empathise.

But an excerpt full of constant "I" and "He" really trips up the flow and is a classic newbie author mistake (the first novella I wrote had an identical problem and was almost unreadable). Plenty of issues with sentence structure too; random example "Mr. Meade suggested, and I groaned." (stuck between two pieces of speech by Meade).

There is a strange and magical skill to making the words of a story flow properly. She doesn't seem to be there yet, but it takes time.

Also; copyeditors you don't know (i.e. not family & friends) are crucial :D
Sure, you can use it for whatever book you'd like to write. We've got one or two users who're using it for their poetry (which really gave me a problem, since I designed the text to be suited for prose).

Do note, however, that proper ebook conversion isn't ready yet. This is more minimum-viable product than anything else - if you log in you'll see a UserVoice forum filled with feature requests, which we're working on.
It all boils down to what people understand by Marketing.

For me it's advertising purelly on the subjective level, without any concrete fact. probably Fred, whoever he is, think that way too.

For someone that works with marketing, it may means branding, or something else... I don't even know enough marketing terms to throw random examples. Point is You are just discussing the sex of the angels.

...well, it may be good marketing for your blog
> Given no further information what do you think?

Even with further information, it'll ultimately have to be what both of you are comfortable with.

Granted, you've done a lot of hard work single-handedly but do not underestimate the value/importance of implementation, especially in a startup environment.

Also, if you all are going to need/raise funding, you should give some consideration to the currently prevailing norms of founder - co-founder ownership patterns acceptable to the funding sources and keep that in mind while deciding on this.

HTH
I guess you'd have to cite some examples of what you're talking about. Europe seems to be quite a mess right now, heading in to the austerity phase where quality gets gutted.

I do think winner-take-all elections magnify the ability of corporations in the US. Unions are more powerful in Europe and strike paralyze France routinely, which doesn't happen in the US very often.

The problem is the government giveaway itself. I don't see proof that most of the same dynamics aren't happening elsewhere; they're just manifesting differently.

Human nature and the desire to get something for nothing are the same everywhere you go, as is getting fed up with all the distortions created.
Most of the things he mentions are very cheap to pull off, though. Proxy honeypots, sniffing ISP internet connections, querying IPs, email surveillance -- the infrastructure is already in place they just have to type some commands. Cost: $0.

I'm sorry but I have to jump in here - you're writing off an awful lost of resources under the banner of "they just have to type some commands."
I have a proof that P=NP, but the margin is too small to contain it
I've been using http://register4less.com/ for a few years. The price might seem higher than some others, but it includes whois privacy protection that godaddy charges extra for, as well as a dns zone editor and a nice UI.
You have to go back to how we got here:

1. Prussian Indoctrination Training..that is the model that the USA adopted from Prussia. Prussia wanted to break the control of churches so they came up with this new teaching method and it was made to indoctrinate, not teach.

2. We USA people layered on that indoctrination system some
other non-goal aligned stuff like school organized sports rather than have the community pay for the off-school hours sports that they will support.

3. Ones deciding budget have no kids in the local school systems.

4. The original geo-area that was Prussia finally saw the errors of the indoctrination approach and moved to a two-tiered education system. Both vocational and university
prep share the same 1-6 grade school classes.

You take some corrective measures like remove sports and have the community pay for the off-time school sports they want to support frees up money to make rest of the changes.
This generally looks good, and sensible. There is only one piece that seems a little dodgy. Sending back out parts of pieces before you have fully received them.

I might be misunderstanding, but until a piece is fully received, you can't hash it and check it is right. This could therefore lead to many clients having partially incorrect pieces, if they keep passing it around.

I've found (and I'm not 100% sure why) that most bittorrent clients do find they get some number of dodgy pieces over time, so this isn't just a theoretical problem.
Ubuntu really lowers the bart...

Still I use it daily
No big. I am currently just looking for a means to start writing and organizing my thoughts and all that. Nowhere near the "let's publish it!" stage.

Will check it out.

Thanks.
Gah. The corporate-speak vocabulary obliterates any sincerity that may have been been in that letter when it was conceived. It reads like nothing more than "damage control".
Edit 911 was one of them. They claim all their editors have phds. I think the other one was something such as "A 1 Editing Service." they definitely sound cheesy but better than nothing if your own skills are lacking.
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The big difference is that Apple starts with design & Google starts with engineering.

Also I am not talking about the quality of the apps only, I am also talking about he quality of the app-store, the payment process, access to music so easily and so on.

All these things are what matters at the end of the day much more than crazy tech specs or complete freedom.

And of course you can make money on Android but there is a reason why Angry Birds is free there and not on the iPhone.