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I have mixed feelings here. On the one hand, I congratulate the effort you spent tackling the problem.

On the other, I'm really disappointed you aren't sticking with it. Never mind anything else, isn't it your obligation to protect your honest students? I appreciate that your colleagues aren't supportive, but that doesn't change your obligations.

And I suspect it's a short-sighted view. Word gets around, in a couple of semesters you'll drive the cheaters out, and probably attract more honest students who are tired of them.

Finally, I question the value of a course that doesn't generate core skills susceptible of demonstration. I've got an MBA, and I learned a lot getting it. But most of my courses were finance and accounting. I took only a couple of strategy and accounting courses, when I was sure that the qualitative material would be handled with rigor, and in some framework that prevented the vague concepts and buzzwords from dominating the conversation. Every time I probed the "soft" courses by less rigorous teachers, I came away convinced they really weren't teaching much that would last. And I'm afraid it's my opinion that most MBA coursework is of this limited value. It is _possible_ to rigorously study qualitative subjects, but it requires considerable discipline.

If your students aren't distinguishably improved by the end of the course, just what was the point of the course? If you aren't enforcing the discipline of the honor code, why would you be expected to enforce the discipline of field? By all means, go after the cheaters -- and go after the fundamental questions of why it's even possible to cheat in your course.

For all those misgivings, I have to credit you for bringing up the issue. There is a lot of rot in our academies, and they urgently need people to demand more of the students. You've already tolerated a lot of controversy to come to this point. But don't stop now, and don't stop with students. Demand more of yourself until your course is something that changes your students in ways that can't be faked.
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"Cheating" may mean that for you, but it's not what it means for most people, and certainly not for "Americans" in general. Panos is pretty clear in his post about what was going on. This wasn't "hints" or anything close.

20-95% of the content in some of these papers was being copied straight off the web without even a citation. It's plagiarism, just like the high-profile cases you recently had. How is that not cheating?
It's a problem that services like Netflix and Last.fm never consider could happen and when it does they are scrambling everywhere and don't know how to deal with the flames properly, stuff just looks broken. What I have been doing the past year is creating basic html pages for every service I release as an emergency landing page that I easily put up at the press of a button.
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Not having any luck using AgentG in a circle to share, it always has to be shared directly with AgentG. i know there is a note about this during setup, but it seems to encourage you to add AgentG to a circle for regular use. This doesn't seem to work.
Netflix is down too, coincidental?
That's also the equivalent of saying "a single line of source code identical to other source code is copyright infringement". Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes there are limited ways to express obvious ideas, so I don't get how such a hard-line stance helps anything.
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She already made a big loss. The only question is whether she goes on deluding herself that she is still in the black, or whether she acknowledges the loss, accepts it and moves on.

Similarly, there is a possibility she put all her money into GM stock. Should she refuse to sell it to avoid taking a big loss?
> In spite of the completely irrelevant lack of marketing money, Mozilla could still have hired John (if he would even have accepted, at this point).

Of course, Mozilla could have hired him in theory. Perhaps it made him an offer. I have no idea. I was just responding to the previous comment, pointing out that as far as money is concerned, I am quite sure Google can offer much more than Mozilla (or basically anyone else, except perhaps Apple, Microsoft, etc. And of course some startups can offer more in terms of shares, but not cash.)

The comment about marketing was a quick way to give an idea of the difference in budget between Google and Mozilla.

> I wasn't expecting this announcement, but it's not surprising. Google is actively developing their dev tools, and Mozilla has...some exploratory experiments

I would say Mozilla's development tools are much more than experiments, but I agree Google has focused on them as a core part of the browser for longer. In part this is because of the existence of Firebug, which made it so Mozilla did not have to focus on such things. But there has definitely been a recent shift in Mozilla on this matter.
Apologies for the aside, but another one of this fellow's projects, jquery.fracs, is pretty impressive: https://github.com/lrsjng/jQuery.fracs
Is this from the same people who brought us is_computer_on() and is_computer_on_fire()?
How does a private school teaching Student A prevent student B from getting the exact same education as before at the old public school?
I despise frameworks like this. They cater to a crowd that I don't believe exists. Who goes and wants to just toss together a mobile-friendly site but doesn't have the skill set to do it without a framework like this? The huge companies that do this rather write their own and the little guys generally have hackers who can write something more efficient. The simplicity of HTML and CSS make frameworks for it seem rather silly.

Edit: That is, of course, unless it's something like YAML or SASS or LESS which completely redefine how to write the code.
I taught middle school science for a few years and totally revamped the grading system, an experiment that worked well. I made sure that the grades were a simple and objective measurement of the mastery of the learning objectives instead of what they often are: a paycheck-like incentive or a means of manipulating student behavior.

(By the way, I used to work in Karlsruhe.)
No need to call Zuck out on that.
Speaking from personal experience (both as a student and a TA) nothing is worse than ECE professors for bad teaching or ECE students for cheating, neither aspect of this scenario really surprise me.

I think it is sad but telling that the author gave up so quickly on what is (as the OP pointed out) the basic expectations of his job, but it is also telling about the overall quality and current state of ECE departments that cheating is so prevalent. The solution isn't however, to pursue cheaters but to change the environment, but that isn't going to happen if every professor gives up after his or her first kick at the can.

I apologize that this partial rant isn't very constructive but I'm far to tired right now.
I believe it is pseudointellectual for "speed of light."
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All we have at this point is the word of someone who admits technological disinclination, says he received a poor grade, and publicly accuses Panos of racism. There's no real evidence here that any other student felt this way, nor that there was any substantial number of them (he doesn't even provide a number).

Panos has provided documentation, reasonable theories, refrained from naming students, and put his own reputation on the line. "nyustern" has simply whined about perceived slights, thrown anonymous accusations of racism, and vaguely claimed that other unnamed and unnumbered students felt the same way.

nyustern is free to voice his thoughts and feelings, but I don't think he should be free to anonymously throw serious accusations at Panos with no evidence.

There might be a serious personality conflict here, it's also possible Panos was a jerk. But at this point we have only the inherently biased word of a purported student who feels they didn't get the grade they deserved.
Looking at the way it works, I would imagine that this should be usable even on other web servers. The only key lines are the ones that set the header and footer that do the dirty work. I haven't been able to try the demo (nor have I had time to set it up myself yet), so I don't know how well it works but the screen shots make it look like it could be fairly nice for providing a more familiar interface to a non-computer savy users.
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What percentage of Americans could work without a car?

Whatever percentage of Americans who could find housing within walking distance of work.

Okay, yeah, if the answer is that short, it sounds like a flippant response to a serious question. But what I mean to illustrate here is that we always have to deal with policy trade-offs. There are a whole set of policies all over the United States that zone neighborhoods of houses to be separate from places where factories or stores or other workplaces are found, and those POLICIES then make cars seem indispensable. But if cars are indispensable, it becomes all the more urgent to make sure everyone driving a car is driving safely, so it becomes more urgent to figure out how to keep unsafe drivers from driving. This is the conundrum we get into in a society that doesn't plan actively to decouple employability from owning and operating a car.

Basis for knowledge for my comment: I have lived for six years of my life, in two separate three-year stays, in a country where I never drove (even though I had a driver license there). Even during much of the time I have lived in the United States, I have commuted from home to work on foot, or by bus, or by bicycle. It can be done. What trade-offs society accepts in making it more or less easy to obtain paying work without investing in a driver license and car first depends on the political process, of course.
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I wouldn't buy anything from them but I think it's keeping in the spirit of the community.
Because of how funding works. It's similar to the reason why if you remove all healthy people off of insurance plans, you can no longer afford to cover the sick. I leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.
Streaming Netflix still works from MAC/PC, but personalized recommendations are absent from the front page.

So I think this is a win in terms of decoupled services and degraded mode functionality.

I expect they probably pushed out some code too hastily due to the recent licensing hoo-hah with the media companies (and can't just roll back because of said hoo-hah).
In the end, short of asking for e-mail receipts, which many consider rude, our only hope seems to lie in philosophical repositioning. I acquired some of that entity when [P.M. Forni] told me that, online, “we communicate because we can and not because we have something important to say.”

“We invest in the swapping of trivialities,” he said, “precious time that we could use for serious reflection. I want to believe that when we stumble upon black holes of silence on the net, that depends at least in part on someone reacting against the tyranny of hyperconnection.

“There must be brave and smart souls who came to realize that thinking is more important than communicating,” he continued. “I see them in my mind’s eye a brave minority, sitting in silence, pondering and planning — the way it used to be.”

I like this guy's style.

Superbly written article by the way. Thanks for sharing @chaosmachine.
"We had to wait on this huge line for lunch," he recalled.
"Evan was like 'Aren't you the boss? Can't you like kind of cut the line a little bit here?' And he's like 'That's not how we do things here'."

Well I respect the fact that Mark respected his employees.
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"who put in the most effort and demonstrate the highest level of achievement"

I've noticed a growing problem with people equating effort with achievement as the parent does. Just because one "works really hard" doesn't mean that one creates something of value. I'm not sure where this belief arose from, but it doesn't apply in school and it certainly doesn't apply in life.
The RMV in MA is basically their own governing body, they have no attachment to the courts and can and will do as they please. Many of the decisions solely rest on whether or not the person you talk to is having a good day.
Thanks, I didn't know that. They should publicize that feature so that more projects use it.

I still find Github's detached gh-pages branches to be really clever and convenient.
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Those are originally from BeOS.
I had the same experience. Also, embedding Youtube videos doesn't work. I only get text but not the video.
Me too. I consider myself technically well versed and I have setup mail servers before. Whenever I send an important email with an attachment I always include the phrase "Please reply on receipt" just to ensure that the other end gets it. The mail server can be unreliable by ignoring the message if it thinks its spam, especially so when you have attachments (every mail sever has it's own file size/extension limitations). You would think that there would be a notification if the message was ignored or not delivered but notifying by default can be a bad idea since attackers can easily spoof (I'm ignoring SPF TXT records) the sender's address and then use your mail sever to DDoS someone else. Also, due to the sheer volume of SPAM you would tie up considerable resources responding to legitimate senders.
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But that makes no sense? jQuery Mobile already does responsive layouts?
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Octopart seems like a useful improvement if I'm asking "what part should I get" rather than "what do I do with this part."
"We send out 1,500 suspension letters every day."

Assuming a single person does not receive multiple suspension letters, and estimating the number of business days in a year to be 250, that's 375,000 drivers receiving letters per year.

Using 4,645,705 as the number of drivers in Massachusetts[1], 0.8% of drivers get suspended per year. That seems high.

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Let me start by indicating some logical flaws in the timing of the events: The office hours for the class were from 12.30 to 1.30, Monday and Wednesday. The class was starting at 2pm. According to your account, I showed up at 1pm, being 30 mins "late". Then the first student came in at 1pm and came out at 1.20pm? Then it took me another 50 minutes while I was running around? So I came to talk to you at 2.10pm, when I was supposed to be in the class? What time did I show up in class? 2.30, and half an hour late?

I do remember the incident but you are greatly exaggerating the timing. The first student was waiting, I showed up at 12.30 and she was out at 12.50. Then I did run down to the cafeteria to grab something to eat. Sorry, my blood sugar was running low, the line of students was getting longer, and I could not go and teach at 2pm for 3 hours straight without food. (Usually I was getting lunch at 1.30pm but with this line of students, things were not looking good.) At 1pm, I was back, we discussed the case and I continued the discussion with the remaining of the students in line.

You were waiting for two hours mainly because you were so worried that you showed up outside my office at 11am, a full hour and a half before the beginning of the office hours. Expecting me to be always in my office, and at your disposal, is understandable from the point of view of an undergraduate. But you may need to learn that professors have other tasks they need to accomplish during their workday.

Btw, I thought that the you got the joke about the "emergency" (that I had to grab something to eat), by obviously seeing me walking in front of you with a sandwich in my mouth. You can blame it to my bad attempt at humor.

Now that the timing issue is resolved, let me get back to the core of the argument, which I actually addressed in the post. It is the fact that I felt mostly sorry about: The fact that the cheating cases really changed my mood and attitude towards teaching this class, and this also affected the class dynamics. What you felt as unfriendliness was the direct causation of the cheating cases. It is very difficult to feel like hanging out with students when feeling that a very significant fraction of the class is actively trying to cheat. This the part that I said that I hated the most: the very different dynamics in class.

This is the part for which I should apologize: For now offering you the same experience as I offered to the students in prior semesters. Go and ask students that took my class in prior semesters. Or even check my ratings in prior semesters. I did not suddenly become an arrogant bastard.

PS: About the issue of a "true capitalist," yes I am a libertarian at heart. And I do believe that people respond to incentives. And I would strongly encourage you to read the article until the end.
My observation hanging out with friends of different nationalities was that foreigners are a lot more susceptible to plagiarizing than someone who went through the American HS system. Almost all my Indian friends who came here just for college ran into some kinda trouble with plagiarizing. The last time I got into trouble for it was in 6th grade when an entire assignment was scrapped because given the few online resources for the topic, almost everyone had the same paper. This was late 90s and the teacher gave us am earful about how we cannot be doing this and the seriousness of the offense. Sometimes I feel my counterparts in other parts of the world don't get this lesson until their first offense at an American college. Good percentage of my friends who got caught end up going to med school or getting degrees far more advanced than mine leading me to rule out that plagiarism is a strong indicator of longterm failure.
Sounds like you should talk to the Dean. Publicly stating that you won't pursue cheaters no matter how blatant probably isn't something your school will enjoy having in the press, and it sounds like there might be a few other issues which, if documentable, could be a something your school may want to sort out. It also gives everybody a chance to explain their side.
I don't really put blame on individuals. I think they are socialized to make their poor decisions. I mainly blame our educational institutions and government for telling people for decades that they will be taken care of when down. It's a lie, but comes with a bonus of placating people.
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I don't understand some of the negative responses directed to the professor (both in this case and in others; they seem to represent a popular sentiment). Why isn't blaming professors for cheaters analogous to blaming rape victims for being insufficiently vigilant against rape?
I'm sure there's some perfectly good explanation for "Gravity on the island", but I don't know what it is.
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How common is the resetting someone's password to annoy them? I know it's a very common rationale for sending reset links, but I'm trying to remember if I've ever heard of it actually happening for real, and drawing a blank.
Seems like Mark is damned if does and damned if he doesn't. He even gets bashed for not cutting in line?! lol. Give the man a break, jeez. He's human just like the rest of us.
I think the standard library is great. It's good to know that there is a "batteries complete" library that you can really on, that won't change its API for years. Being standard, it's well documented, well vetted, and lots of people know it.

There needs to be a wider repo, but pip / easy_install does that OK.

What does need to change - there needs to be more "library2" modules. urllib wasn't good enough, so they made "urllib2". Likewise, there's lots of old, outdated modules that could be supplanted.
Actually the other comment from b0b0b0b is pretty accurate - Netflix tries to gracefully degrade functionality when 'stuff goes down', so that people can still get the basic streaming service. Netflix also uses Chaos Monkey (http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/chaos-monkey-how-n...)

P.S. I work there.
I don't think being pissed at 28/108 students is a valid excuse for acting pissed at everyone. That is a major professional flaw and a post on how you plan to control your emotion may be appreciated by future students.

I have had professors that had me write huge essays and then proceeded to just put a huge ass check and never really read past the first paragraph. If I plagiarized and cited my frustration with all those other professors just glossing over hours and hours of my work, would you accept that excuse?

I guess what I am tryin to say is that your 80 students who did not cheat have as much right to be pissed at you as your right to be pissed at the 28 students that did cheat.

As for the evals, I always found them to be kind of a joke and would agree that the better grades you assigned, better your ratings would be. As for me, I was too lazy to bubble in stuff.
The writers conclusion about so called masters of facebook not making money is wrong. The investors are in it for the money, there is no doubt facebook is generating a ton of revenue and i think they manage to make some profit too, like Zynga.
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