Great addition to the workflowy style ecosystem. I will definitely keep an eye on this one. When you plan OPML import support?
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What I've learned is that you can't teach any type of rule until all it's "prerequisite phenomena" has been experienced. Music education has a bias of more "doing" and experiencing and less "talking" about (or it should at least). So it has a keen way of turning ideas and concepts into action rather quickly. I think many other disciplines in school can learn a bit from how music is taught frankly: there is a very quick turnaround from concept to application/experience and therefore to emotional context of some sort, which really is the end goal to all learning. Why do you care about X?
So if a rule simply is an equation of some sort, or a statement of relationships, then the prerequisite phenomena is making sure every variable is defined within it; so that one can focus solely on the relationships within the objects instead of the undefined variables. This covers many different grounds depending on the style of the learner and the material at hand. Sometimes (rarely) words are enough (if you're building familiar rules into new rules and the experiential phenomena is all done in the mind "ah-ha!") and usually, a student needs to hear the sound of a major scale vs a minor scale and try to describe it with words before telling them what actually makes it sound different theoretically. And even then, there are different ways to explain it. If the student picked up major scales really well (prerequisite phenomena), I will use the modal approach to learning minor scales (it's the major scale but starting from a different note), if the student picks up the scale tones and is better with spacial relationships, they usually already talk about the differences between what they just played as a sharp/flat 6th or 7th scale tone. And there you have it, they've just instructed YOU how they think about a concept.
Music is a great example of how there is no single correct way to explain the theory. First off, music practice and artistic decisions always came first, the theory came later as people tried to understand and teach it. And it is the bias of educators to find a single correct way to understand it within themselves that leads to them only prescribing one way to do something (memorize this!). Teaching really is listening more than it is speaking.
What I learned from this exercise, is that it's not the complexity of the commands that is the issue with OpenSSL, it's:
1) The importance of consistent naming schemes (for the humans) and PKI hierarchy design (the nuances of keyUsage, basicConstraints, and extendedKeyUsage)
2) consistent execution of commands; typos are more likely the more you have to put in the CLI manually
3) good configuration files aren't utilized enough in most of the tutorials I found. They can streamline use, archive procedure, and prevent typos as in point #2.
4) The importing of certs and keys in an automatic way is a sort of dark corner of the tutorial world. But permissions are super important! I came up with an import strategy that I think works pretty well.[3] Please examine and break it!
[1]https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa
1) Simple UI and only one "channel". This forces all the users to take part in all the submissions resulting in a diverse set of comments and expertise on any given submission plus many eyes on fact checking.
2) As a result, the high volume of views on each submission, and the simple karma and voting system, quickly highlights the most enlightening comments and directs the conversation.
3) Votes are democratic across all users, this makes the results of voting less "tribal" and more appealing to the entire audience.
4) Branding. HN has the branding as a place for intelligent discussion with high expectations for professional quality responses and specific links to sources, and a minimum of commentary that doesn't move the conversation forward. The community holds these values very dear and they seem to me at least to be maintained pretty well.
In closing though, I think it's the branding and ethos part that really does it. Nothing about the sites simple design forces this ethos I think. And as soon as people stop enforcing the ethos, or in the other extreme, become complete d*'s in doing so, nothing about the technical design of the site will keep it here.
follow-up: When I bookmark anything that I find on HN, I don't ever just bookmark the link itself, I'll bookmark the HN page with all the comments as they are an incredible resource of context and introduction to the topic at hand.
[1] http://zim-wiki.org/ [2] http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
[1]http://theweek.com/articles/454320/62-percent-all-web-traffi...
I can definitely see this as a great tool in the classroom for creating interactive discussions. Copy a template for each class and you can have everyone collaborate and focus on the discussion, not taking notes (or better still, take notes in the collaborative page itself, things that aren't originally there), and then after you have a record of everything which you can share across all students and with different classes.
or maybe I just answered my own question, why leave credit cards on sites anymore and risk it when you can always carry the info securely with you?...hmm.
Great from the system side. From the user end however, I had a revelation when I realized that I need to make a distinction between strong passwords and disposable passwords. Much has been said already about strong passwords for keys, log-ins, encryption, but disposable ones for almost all websites? That are easy to remember? I've been using SuperGenPass[1] for that and have loved it.
Oliver now gets to take all the elements he borrowed, and that he loved so dearly, and return them back to the stars from which they came. His spirit has dissolved now into it's new form as a complex abstract of memories, ideas, and collective appreciation, where it will now live alongside nature; it's original muse and creator.
By itself, there's no reason it's unhealthy if it's spent on solid investments in the country. After WWII when it was last way above 100%, the composition of that spending had a much better effect on the country. Now? What's the nature of the current debt? I'd agree that it's not so wisely spent.
In an ideal situation sure. But thats if:
1) education keeps up with the demands/flavors of the job market
2) education stays affordable.
3) the economy finds ways to value "creative goods" that people occupying the higher levels of Maslow's Hierarchy create. If the music industry is any signifier, this is not the trend.
4) Somehow, some way, a middle class needs to flourish again. The poor can create culture, but don't have the resources to insert it into the economy, and the wealthy manage/own culture. But it's the middle class that is the sweet spot and links the two.
A society that mainly occupies the upper Maslow's Hierarchy, without a demand or infrastructure for monetizing it, is a society of unemployed and poor (but maybe happy?) hobbyists.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table#...
Before one constructs a musical Turing test of music from machines vs humans, I'd like to see a test first about if people can discern whether algorithmic or formulaic composition techniques were used in a (human composed) piece or whether it was all "organic" (I don't even know how to define that musically, composition is rarely a purely inspirational and complete endeavor. It's lots of editing, transformations, permutations, cut/paste, selective "not caring" in some spots). I think the answer to that question is a more insightful place to start as I think the general public isn't aware of how many formulas and algorithms (conscious and subconscious) composers actually use to construct their music.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillinger_System (interesting side note: Glenn Miller used the rhythmic tools of the Schillinger System to construct the catchy rhythm component and form of this little diddy you might have heard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXwkWVEIIw)
But then again, whether DRM inhibits piracy or just creates access annoyances is another topic altogether. I've admired O'Reilly's no DRM model for their ebooks, but I don't think that model would work with the non-professional and not as deeply committed audience that, say, consumers of pop music in their teens would be.