Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities â https://github.blog/2020-09-10-remote-education-a-series-of-best-practices-for-online-campus-communities/
When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly âdumb,â criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What Iâm beginning to think is that the âsmarter,â people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. Itâs like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Database Basics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/05/database.html #database #intro #education #preparation
Educational Toy History: Did The Erector Set Copy Meccano? https://tedium.co/2019/03/21/erector-set-educational-toy-history/
Cheap TVs and Exorbitant Education, Modern America in One Chart https://kottke.org/19/02/cheap-tvs-and-exorbitant-education-modern-america-in-one-chart
In the âBlack Guns Matterâ Movement, âMake Racists Afraid Againâ Is About Education, Not Violence - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/black-guns-matter-make-racists-afraid-again
At the risk of opening 20 year old wounds, the academic flamewar this article is part of is fascinating & educational, & I wish I understood it better: http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-theory-what-an-english-professor-should-know-before-trying/
Higher education in the US is driven by a lust for glory | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/higher-education-in-the-us-is-driven-by-a-lust-for-glory
Flanderizing Akihabara - Educated by Culture - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOBpJF9zQKY
TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/
âShaping our childrenâs education in computingâ by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xgWLYQc4g
TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/
Hot take: the âgreat booksâ model of liberal education is insufficiently liberal, not because the âgreat booksâ are insufficiently diverse but because the canons students engage with are insufficiently different from each other.
Sects Education: Cults in Film - CrookedMarquee https://crookedmarquee.com/sects-education-cults-in-movies/
BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource ⢠Research & Education Space http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
OLPCâÂÂs $100 laptop was going to change the world â then it all went wrong - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.
Sustainable community education through WTFM http://web.archive.org/web/20170416184606/http://www.roaming-initiative.com/blog/posts/wtfm
Random promotion may be best, research suggests | Education | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/nov/01/random-promotion-research
Why philosophy is so important in science education | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science-education
Techâs push to teach coding isnât about kidsâ success â itâs about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
Longer than anticipated
Well, my hiatus and upcoming photoblog are taking longer than anticipated. Thatâs due, most of the time, to lack of time. We have moved our offices to a new building (I am talking about work here) and things have been hectic at times. That added to Kent Martinâs growing up and the task of educating him becoming more important âand difficultâ has taken all the little free time I have on my hands.
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A very sad day
I have, many times, felt saddened while thinking about the fragility of life. I feel often perturbed by the fact the life itself is very short. Throughout life we strive to achieve goals, whether they are set goals or not: we get an education, or try to, we search for happiness, we build an âempireâ around us. And everything, everything disappears at the end. Does it makes any sense then? What is the reason of life?
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