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wagglycocks··on Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
I admire your cautiousness. You certainly are a strong male and will surely be rewarded with offspring for being such a gallant mate.
wagglycocks··on Crying
"The first ten minutes of Up" is an incredible cliche. Everyone has that reaction to it that's not a robot.
wagglycocks··on 500 Lines or Less
But ... why would I assume that the bottom of the page had meaning when the top did not?

You don't read all the way through the Time Cube page before coming to an idea about the contents.

wagglycocks··on Blisk – a browser for web developers
We're not talking about developers developers developers, we're talking about web developers.
wagglycocks··on My name still causes SQL errors
I feel like that joke is so widely known that it can be retired, or at least, referenced without needing the link.
wagglycocks··on Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry
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wagglycocks··on "Payload to Mars" Added to SpaceX Pricelist
I do not recall that announcement involved human cargo. I believe a more realistic goal was a large equipment drop.
wagglycocks··on Beautiful minds, wasted: how not to squander the potential of autistic people
He has a kuato. Let's try to be mature about it.
wagglycocks··on Xamarin Open-Sourced
He's obviously a shill for big chatroom
wagglycocks··on Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
Opera has a long history of adding innovative browser features. There's no reason to think that this has some kind of ulterior motive related to a rumored sale.
wagglycocks··on TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For
Isn't that question like asking if a tree falls in the forest and no one can hear it?

Unless you have a magical telepathic helmet that can access merit

wagglycocks··on TIS-100: the Programming Game You Never Asked For
>I'm starting to think that the way out of this is guild-like structures where you qualify by producing a "masterwork" recognised as such by your peers. And then you don't have to prove yourself any more.

Isn't this essentially how PhDs are granted?

wagglycocks··on CaptionBot by Microsoft
Actually, their ToS says they can do whatever the hell they want with it:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/c...

wagglycocks··on Show HN: Min – web browser with better search and built-in ad blocking
It's apparently written in Javascript, which is all the rage these days.
wagglycocks··on “Make HTML Great Again”: Campaign site teardowns
It is a design flaw in the older browsers, not the spec itself.

HTML hasn't changed in years, and XHTML is largely backwards compatible.

wagglycocks··on Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
After enough downvotes I think the bad posts just disappear from view. I'm not 100% sure how it works.
wagglycocks··on Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
Because it's currently full of junk entries where people say they work on the moon
wagglycocks··on An Ode to the Rice Cooker
I have a rice cooker from Amazon that was less than $100 and works perfectly. I don't know if it uses fuzzy logic or not. Is there an easy way to tell?
wagglycocks··on Randomly-generated passwords still have to be legal strings
> We found that sometimes (no predictable pattern), we have interoperability problems between systems. The password produced by one system is not recognized by the other.
wagglycocks··on Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize
A travel writer or vacation journalist. An Idiot Abroad, etc.
wagglycocks··on PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399
: to make (something) available to all people : to make it possible for all people to understand (something)
wagglycocks··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
wagglycocks··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
I feel like an ant in the presence of giants.
wagglycocks··on Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail
Crypto war one was what?
wagglycocks··on Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail
This is an extremely poor analogy. Displaying a weapon is absolutely not a defense. Firearms should never be used to threaten in this manner.
wagglycocks··on Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything
On the Steam store page it's listed as "Early Access," which is the alpha/beta branding loophole that Steam uses.
wagglycocks··on Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster browsing
That's where curated media comes into play. No-one's going to upvote an article that's literally just filler text.
wagglycocks··on Pictures combined using Neural networks
Does this actually use the same technique, or is it just a clever filter?
wagglycocks··on ReactOS 0.4.0 Released
They can enjoy the 1.0 version of Dwarf Fortress while they're at it
wagglycocks··on I gave my students iPads – then wished I could take them back
What you're describing as the "but on a computer" era is also known in education as the first stage of the SAMR model: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition.

This is a well known pitfall in technology integration. I don't think a lot of people in this thread are giving due credit to educators - it's their job, and there's a lot of smart people in education who have just as much common sense as the armchair teachers who think otherwise.

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/04/examples-of-transformi...

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