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ThePawnBreak··on University of California teachers’ union aims to block online classes
> One way or another, someone will always need to be available to answer students' questions. Books, videos, and clever programs running in web browsers simply can't do that.

Can't we use a model similar to Stack Overflow for answering students' questions? Most questions are bound to repeat, so I don't think there would be so many questions for the experts to answer after a while.

ThePawnBreak··on The College For-Profits Should Fear
From what I've noticed, the more you understand the subject, the better you learn from reading on your own and the less you learn from exercices, listening or conversing. I think the cause is that there is a difference in focus: With books, you can identify the things you already understand ( as-is or as an analogy to something you understand ) and focus on the new stuff, so the more you understand, the better you focus on the new stuff. The problem is that when you don't understand lots of things well enough, your concentration is not focused, so you end up with a superficial understanding and forgetting a lot as you go. The solution comes in the form of exercices, which provide an artifial focus, having your full attention until you understand them very well, which is good if you're a beginner, but redundant if you are experienced.
ThePawnBreak··on Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email
Some people write notes on the margins of the page and underline key-phrases when reading. I don't think they would check each book to see if it was "clean".
ThePawnBreak··on Show HN: my collaborative drawing webapp
It would be very helpful if you put a Clear button somewhere more accesible, but hard to click by mistake, such as in the lower left. Also, don't ask me if I want to clearn the page.
ThePawnBreak··on Graphwar -- Artillery game where you use mathematical functions
This is very hard to play in the current state. Things that I feel are needed:

- a dot where x and y integers intersect ( like the intersections of the lines on a math notebook ).

- ability to preview the trajectory;

- larger font for the formula box

- ability to choose direction to shoot in

The concept is very interesting, and this could be quite useful for people who want to improve their knowledge of function graphs.

ThePawnBreak··on How to Level Up as a Developer
"Getting it" is usually the result of hard work in most cases.
ThePawnBreak··on Game Development: You Need $100,000
Have a look at Project Zomboid.
ThePawnBreak··on Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
Then the company can hire the guy who posted a solution on his blog if the problem is hard, or not care anyway if the problem is simple.
ThePawnBreak··on Smart introduces the Optimus 1.6TB 1000MB/s SSD
It doesn't really matter, as it will be dirt cheap in 5 years anyway.
ThePawnBreak··on Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”
"even if it's one in a million or one in a thousand" The probability of being killed ( or at least hurt ) while driving to work is probably larger than 1 in a milion.
ThePawnBreak··on Advice to young programmers
Where can I find good code to study? Also, how can I tell how good code is?
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