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I am wary of bots after Wave. The vibe of a conversation went downhill really quick.

I question too the utility of duplicating your posts twice. It's really hard to get it right without multiple overlapping groups of people seeing the same content twice. Plus the resulting fragmentation of discussion as well.
As always, Chrome users, prefix the address in the omnibox with 'cache:' to get

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Alarsj...

At first I thought this was kind of overkill for such a 'simple' function but the example of Github shows how important effective presentation of a file list can be. To the average web user the default Apache listing can look 'broken' whereas I would have no problem directing a client to the URL of an index that looked like this.
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Very cool. I'm just sad that it is limited to 960px :/.
> but kept publicizing each major version like it was a
> big deal

Uh... There's been only one release on the new schedule so far: Firefox 5. And it was just announced as a release. None of the announcements mentioned the number "5" anywhere.

Now the extension compat story is a real problem, though things like NoScript are a smaller part of it than things like Google Toolbar, the various antivirus toolbars, etc.
And you'll end up with the complexity of dependencies with mismatched and/or incompatible versions. Adding a dependency explicitly to the source code is the ultimate, albeit somewhat inefficient, solution which is often useful. In Python, for example, BeautifulSoup has long recommended this practice.

See also the SQLite amalgamation for another example of a single-file deployment: http://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
So if I know a user's email I can lock their account by just triggering a reset password.
Some of this might have been better expressed in the evaluations.
Reminds me of Magnolia.
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I don't see how he's a coward, he's coming up with new ways to teach his students that make it so they are not able or less able to cheat. If he was a coward he would just continue to teach in a way that was still easy to cheat. He's even asking for ideas on other ways to prevent cheating.
Hopefully this is a similar view to other students here, but I would drop the class/change professors (even if that meant going into a larger class). Being in an environment where cheating is allowed is not somewhere that I want to be, much less learn in. I would feel like my honest work was just seen as equal to the cheaters'.
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Hm, it seems to me that the lean startup methodology is very compatible with what this guy describes.
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scott_s is right. Enforcing cheating policies isn't as impersonal as enforcing parking laws. You can't just leave a citation behind and let the students and administration handle it. The professor will be involved.

There's also the aspect of a student being falsely accused of cheating. I was unfortunate enough to have experienced this during my college career. A fellow student, whom I didn't know outside of class, copied my answers exactly on a German exam. I don't know why he did this, because there were only 15 students in the class and the professor knew us all fairly well. To think the professor wasn't going to notice was a stupid assumption on his part.

I was called in to her office and shown the two tests. The answers were the same down to the punctuation even. It was clear the other guy was very bad at cheating and probably did it out of desperation. I was initially shocked and feared I was going to fail the class despite my innocence. She had to refer the incident to the honor board due to university policy. When I left her office I was so furious that I looked up where the other student lived because I wanted to fight him. But I took a walk, cooled off and decided against it.

I was ultimately cleared by the board and there were no marks on my record. After the proceedings were over, the professor apologized to me and said that she never believed for a moment that I had cheated, or that I had helped him cheat. She pleaded with dean to avoid sending the matter to the honor board, but she had to follow policy.

She said she never had any cheating incidents in the past, and that it was personally distressing for her to handle the situation. It was definitely stressful for me as well.
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I created an app that uses a different approach.

http://www.twittertoplus.com/

It relies on people you follow having used http://gplus.to to create a Google+ name that matches their Twitter name.

Currently it finds about 20% of the people you follow.
Search for sites like http://betali.st and put up your splash screenshot. People who are interested would check it out and try the product.

Post facebook/twitter messages to your followers and ask them to try. Better yet, find some twitter hot-shots who might be interested in your product and send them a tweet. Sure most will ignore you, but if 1/10 tries it out, you've got another power beta user.

Lastly, take a look at my post here (http://www.geekatsea.com/what-google-must-learn-from-my-fail...), will give you some ideas as to what beta users say vs. what they mean.

Good luck!
Unfortunately, you're probably right. The "shucks, if it weren't for you meddling professors I would have graduated" version is unlikely to happen in the real world.
If you'd like to check it out, just make a comment on my blog and I'll make an intro.
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There is a difference between knowing that the message arrived in the recipient's inbox, and knowing that the recipient has opened the message. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_receipt#E-mail (DSN versus MDN).

MDNs are not a very good idea, but widespread use of DSNs would probably be nice. There are quite a lot of cases where you just have to know if your message arrived, but it is tedious (and slightly rude) to ask for confirmation.
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I do think the author has a valid point. Yes, sure you don't have to respond immediately but taking too long to respond isn't very kind as well. You gotta have some emotional intelligence. In fact, this sort of thing happens beyond email.. it's also about phone calls that don't get returned, and failing to "ping" friends regularly.

I know we live in a busy world, but you gotta have some insight into what ticks other people.

Ignoring people for too long leads to bitterness as you wonders why he/she has forgotten about you. It also leads to a negative view of the world. You start to think it's dog eat dog.. It's true.. we don't respond right away unless it's a sex text. We don't really care about others unless there's an orgasm in stake, or at least an indirect path to an orgasm.
Yeah, their really needs to be some independent evaluation outside of the students, I saw many times lecturers have got lots of bad reviews not necessarily because they were bad teachers but because they may have set hard assignments or forced the students to do more work during a lecture.
See? There's the problem. Since there's no conclusion between vendors on console object API, console.log function may not have .apply method.

It's not only the console object functions actually, most of the browsers choke on a [1,2,3].forEach(alert) and other [Native Code] functions.
Is it possible the DVD + USPS delivery method is more reliable than streaming? Too bad I cancelled that account for streaming only.
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Looks cool. Some similar study modes to what we have at Quizlet (http://quizlet.com)
Does anyone know of an Android app that performs similar functionality.
"by copying sentence by sentence from various sources, rewriting it to make the cheating non-detectable, and reading over it to make sure the flow was good. It saved me at least 50% of the time compared to writing something from scratch, and the quality was good too." - with those kind of skills you could become a top-notch journalist for the huffington post.
Well, I'll stay tuned Jason. It looks like more of the same content farming right now. Hopefully one day it will become something I can recommend to people.

Good luck.
You're absolutely not alone in this experience, Panos.

A pair of my friends work for online colleges; one for a state college with a pretty good reputation, and another for a for-profit school with a decent reputation. Neither are tenured.

Both of them have had serious issues with student cheating. The one at the state college got support from one of her superiors, and was not penalized for fighting plagiarism, but it was still very time consuming. Another one of her superiors (in previous years) did not support her in any way, and she had to cut back on enforcing academic honesty to help protect her job, save for the most blatant cases.

The other one (at the for-profit college) stopped crusading against cheating when she found out that she'd (effectively) be fired if she continued. Pass rates are a sizable portion of what's used to determine which teachers are given which classes. In one class, more than half of her students should have been failed for academic honesty violations by the halfway point of the year. However, if she did that, her pass rates would have been low enough that it was extremely likely that she would not be given any classes next semester. (Not technically fired, but functionally so.)

So, you are not the only person encountering this, and you're not alone in realizing that fighting cheating can be hazardous to your career. It's a damn shame.
Accountants and MBAs should not run anything, except a calculator. Lutz was right to say that car guys should make cars, software guys should make software, etc.
There's a wave of young, unmarried men in China now, but it's not nearly as bad as the pre-revolutionary times when polygamy was rampant.

At the moment, men are marrying later than women, and chasing overseas brides. Brides sometimes come from Vietnam, where the girls outnumber boys and the culture is somewhat similar; also men occasionally marry African women, as China is now doing more business there; though there's a hell of a lot of racism in China towards anyone with darker skin than average. Also, men are expected to buy a house and car before marriage, which isn't great for men from poorer families (the boys parents usually foot the bill, as few men in their 20s can buy a house). Actually, the costs of male children is starting to reduce the prejudice a bit.

It will raise the crime rate, and cause social disorder (young unmarried men are the kind of people who throw molotov cocktails at authorities - and no authority wants that). China knows this, and has softened the one-child policy a lot. Women used to be forced to abort subsequent pregnancies; now they are more likely to face a fine. Also, prostitution is widespread.
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You're right about the history of Partition.

This is roughly what happened. The British cabinet committee had originally proposed a 3-tier federation: with the center at the top, a provincial grouping of states in the middle, and states at the bottom. There were 3 'groups': A: Hindu-majority areas of the North, West and South B: Muslim-majority areas of the North-West, C: Bengal and Assam. Jinnah and the communists had agreed to this plan, Nehru wanted to defer the decision to the Constituent Assembly. Jinnah saw this as a 'betrayal' and withdrew his support. Eventually, when this plan seemed in jeopardy, the cabinet committee proposed Partition. Jinnah accepted, Nehru disagreed. And then 'Direct Action Day' and riots happened. No looking back after that.
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Given an overall badly damaged classroom dynamic, excluding those found cheating may not have made much difference.
I think it's completely fair to respond to a public blog post here. The professor invited the response when he accused his students of giving him a poor rating for the wrong reasons. If I was a student of his, I would probably be offended.
I scored far lower than I thought I would, and am genuinely surprised given that I tend to write a lot and have always thought I had a decent vocabulary.

I would love to be able to compare my score to what it would have been before moving to a non-English country and learning/speaking a new language. I definitely feel that a large part of my memory is now dedicated to Japanese and not English...
There are some classes where homework is more than 1/4 of the grade. Maybe not good math classes in the US.

Cheating doesn't happen when there's virtually no incentive.
I stand by my point that you can cheat in Math homework more easily than equivalent non-Math homework, if you want to.

If 400-level Math coures are really impossible to cheat on, but there are 400-level non-Math courses that are possible to cheat on, I'd just argue that this is because they aren't really equivalent.
My guess? CS vs business school. You can't bullshit a compiler.

An engineer pal of mine eventually went back for an MBA at a top-tier business school. He said that in 2 years, he learned exactly one thing that he wouldn't have figured out on his own with a little thought. (It was the law of comparative advantage, which blew my mind as well.) The rest was building a rolodex and gaining skill in presenting smoothly.

His experience made me pretty suspicious of the intellectual content business schools. Given that, cheating makes a twisted sort of sense. And of course, if one plans to go on to create mortgage-backed securities or asset-stripping leveraged buyouts, one probably has an ends-justify-the-means attitude by the time graduate school rolls around.
"Does this passage strike anyone else as over stating LSD's impact?"

It's necessarily true, but it's not a stretch either. LSD was arguably the key driver behind the creation of the Internet, silicon valley, the environmental movement, the civil rights movement, etc. It was also the reason why psychiatry adopted the position that mental illnesses were caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

"I think the social revolution of the 60s allowed LSD and the culture it created to flourish and not the other way round as seems to be being argued here."

So I think the key to understanding the 60s, the hippies, and LSD is the atomic bomb. Nick Sand and many of the other high level manufacturers and distributors of LSD were the children of high level figures in the manhattan project. Nick Sand's dad was one of the key chemists that developed the bomb. And supposedly the dad of one of the other key acid manufacturers was the co-pilot of the Enola Gray, one of the planes that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.

Most of the energy (and bullshit) behind the counterculture in general was a reaction against atomic energy and the culture of the 50s. Clearly the angst would have been there without LSD, but I think that acid became sort of the banner that everyone rallied behind and that united everyone. This is especially true since it's such a prosocial drug; one of its main effects is that it basically makes you care more about other people. (And engage with and collaborate with them, as the case may be.)

Of course the reason it became such a part of the culture is that it fundamentally changed a lot of people, especially a lot of people who later went on to contribute enormous amounts to society, on a deeply personal level. You can already read a lot about this and you'll be able to read increasingly more about as that generation gets older and starts retiring and writing memoirs. In general the ways that any drug impacts culture are really subtle, but definitely there. IIRC Terence McKenna talks a bunch about it in this podcast: http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=153

For what it's worth, I also have a collection of a couple dozen or so links to people talking about psychedelics have changed their lives here:

http://bit.ly/qkvs3q
I've been looking for Android via Python. Tell me, what devices have you been using it on? What apps feature it in the market?
What you describe as "cheating" sounds more like "researching" or "studying". Cite sources for your facts and what you have there is probably a perfectly good paper.
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I've done this before. It's more a case if you don't know if your email has mistakenly been put into the spam folder.
> Of course, America may have an above-average number of enemies, which might justify tighter security.

This is a common belief, which does not make it false.

I'm sure America would be willing to step down to the extent someone else (a European coalition?) would be willing to step up.

Just a thought.
As someone who has built his own operating system I wouldn't recommend going at it from scratch. I got much more useful information install Gentoo from scratch. I will never use that ASM knowledge I learned in real life. However, I do use the knowledge of how Linux works from the ground up on a daily basis.
By your own admission, you are "not technologically inclined", so what is it that makes you think you achieved anything remotely like "the highest level of achievement"? You might think you did a good job, but not only are you obviously going to be biased, but you're probably totally unqualified to make that assessment in the first place.

Your post just sounds like someone who was bad at the class and wants to blame someone else.
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At the school i'm going to right now (actually the other big school in nyc...), cheating in the CS department is a huge issue. Big enough that the main focus of orientation seemed to be about how if you got caught even on just weekly assignments, you'd get kicked out pretty fast. Was a bit more than I was expecting.

I later found out the reason for this, the high population of foreign students. I'm generally not one to stereotype, but to have thought otherwise was to simply be living under a rock. It was pretty obvious that they tended to work together in fairly large groups or between several groups on their assignments and projects, and that the rest of us who were not were at a significant disadvantage. And while generally, I didn't /really/ care, as my grades tended to be good enough, and I am not the type to shoot for the A+, it really did make doing the assignments on my own very frustrating when I would get stuck. Spending all that extra time to figure it out on my own just wasn't as satisfying when I knew the class average for the assignments would just be artificially high anyways.

But in the end, i'm really going to grad school to learn, and not so much for amazing grades. It just would be nice to not be penalized for doing my own work.
Extremely well built and easy to use from a UX (DX? Developer Experience?) perspective. I have recently been using Sinatra and am loving these extremely minimal frameworks. We just need something like Heroku for Python. Gondor maybe?
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This is quite nice, however, if you are wanting to serve static content I no longer believe Apache the proper tool for the job. Use cherokee, lighttpd or nginx, they are all faster and have decent file interfaces.
Apple makes desktops and laptops, they have multiple suites of software, a phone, a portable music player, a media center solution and a marketplace for music.

Given that these things are not mutually exclusive, and not by any stretch limited to them, what exactly is Apple going to fall from the top of? And where is the data that suggests they are at the top, aside from coasting on the fact that they are "Apple"?
This site just keeps linking datasheet links to ads for me.

I use Octopart. They're an awesome startup and have a great collection of datasheets already.
With G+ it's possible to filter your output (into circles) but there's no way to filter the input. I've put all my hacker friends into a hacker circle, but when I browse that stream I get all their public/extended posts plus the posts for whatever circle they've put me in. Basically, they know I'm following, but they can't know why I'm following. I can't signal to them that I want them to put me in circle for all their hacking posts and not their pictures-of-cats posts.

I've actually started making posts that say, "If you can see this post, I'm following you because [X]."
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I don't see how that's at all relevant. Yes, of course you need to be logged in to export your Gmail contacts, but none of that implies that they're being "scraped" or retrieved in anything other than a readily accessible form. The simple fact is that Google has supported this kind of contact export for several years. Facebook has long benefited from it, but explicitly prohibits anything comparable on their end (i.e. not providing it themselves and intentionally breaking browser extensions, apps, or any third-party connectors).
What I got from his post wasn't that he deserved a better grade, but more willingness by the professor to field his questions. If other students felt this way, I really can't trust the author's claim that his low evaluation score was solely due to the fault of his students. Seems pretty unfair...

The cheating, although not excusable, could very well be partially blamed on the professor.
ah yes how did we forget. thanks to twitter all the information we receive is unfiltered from the source and no one lies.
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2. Create your blog and write about your product & field. Follow SEO best practices and put a sign up link in your blog.
3. Run a Google adwords campaign with a small budget.
4. Go to startup events and network with people who might be interested and point them to your launch page.
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You can advertise. Say, $1-$5 per click (I'm not an expert). It won't really pay off (in terms of value per user), but it will give you feedback.

It won't scale as well as word-of-mouth / viral adoption, but that's a premature optimization issue.