Why We're Failing in Math and Science (26)
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Norman Mailer's brilliant novel Why Are We in Vietnam? doesn't talk explicitly about the Vietnam war; it tells a story about American culture and the American psyche, thereby producing a devastating critique of the war with the title and last line alone. In a similar way, it may be easier to understand why America is falling behind at math and science with a few simple stories. Last week, Robert Bruce Thompson, author of An Illustrated ...
Waiting for my grade (1)
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I probably won't get feedback on my final paper for a few days, but on Tuesday (day before it was due), I decided to figure out what score I needed on the paper to still get an A in the class. It's a fun exercise and one I've done in many classes. I ask the question "If I completely blow off this last assignment, what grade will I get?" It stems from an adolescent psych ...
Tasty Rails Caching (2)
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Tim Bray: This matters if your Web app is maxed on some combination of CPU and database, and a noticeable proportion of requests don’t really need a page-rebuild, and your existing caching and last-modified setup isn’t getting the job done. While I agree with that, I claim that the potential benefits are much more than that. Much more. Furthermore, the upcoming Simpler Conditional Get Support is not the only arrow in Rail’s quiver, and not ...
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninjas (49)
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One of the early technology decisions we made on Stack Overflow was to go with a fairly JavaScript intensive site. Like many programmers, I've been historically ambivalent about JavaScript: The Power of "View Source" The Day Performance Didn't Matter Any More JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default JavaScript: The Lingua Franca of the Web The Great Browser JavaScript Showdown However, it's difficult to argue with the demonstrated success of JavaScript over the last few years. ...
A quote from Blaine Cook (4)
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Simon Willison's Weblog (37)
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OAuth came out of my worry that if the Twitter API became popular, we’d be spreading passwords all around the web. OAuth took longer to finish than it took for the Twitter API to become popular, and as a result many Twitter users’ passwords are scattered pretty carelessly around the web. This is a terrible situation, and one we as responsible web developers should work to prevent. - Blaine Cook
Free licenses upheld by US "IP" court (1)
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Free licenses upheld by US “IP” court. Free software and CC licenses which dictate conditions that, when violated, turn you in to a copyright infringer now have precedence in US law.
Simpler Conditional Get Support (ETags) | Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails (10)
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Ryan's Scraps - Blog (13)
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Conditional-gets are a facility of the HTTP spec that provide a way for web servers to tell browsers that the response to a GET request hasn’t changed since the last request and can be safely pulled from the browser cache. They work by using the HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH and HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE headers to pass back and forth both a unique content identifier and the timestamp of when the content was last changed. If the browser makes a request ...
Love means never having to say you're sorry (1)
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A Day in My Life (6)
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Did you ever hear one of those old cliches and just roll your eyes? You know the person using the cliche doesn't really believe it, but *he says it anyway, thinking that perhaps if *he says it enough, people will believe *he means it. I roll my eyes a lot. One of my favorite cliches about management comes from micromanagers. I have yet to meet a micromanager who will admit to micromanaging. Recognize this - ...
widget of the week: all-in-one delivery tracker (1)
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We all want something to look forward to, be it a glass of wine, good news or night out. So, like kids waiting to open birthday presents, checking when our packages will arrive is a compulsion toward prolonged contentment. If you prefer shopping online to driving and waiting in lines, there may be a number of missives to manage, all being delivered by different carriers. For Mac users, the Delivery Status download shows you all ...
Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google (1)
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Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google. I missed this story last year—the change was announced by Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007.
Operator, can you help me place this call (1)
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Ramble On (2)
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I’ve always been pretty fascinated by the allegory within the Genesis story the Tower of Babel, particularly the confusion/division of human language. I think it’s because I’ve always been fascinated by the human challenge of communication - and why something so seemingly simple and so core to the human experience, seem so incredibly difficult. Especially in the workplace. I have never researched or studied much in the way of what scholars have to say about ...
Getting Real About Coffee & Cost (1)
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Three different roasts of the same bean I’m a coffee snob. Not the kind that thinks that every bean they drink should be a peaberry, or from a certain region, or roasted to a certain doneness, or should be brewed with water that is a certain temperature (though all of those count for good coffee to your taste). I’m the kind of coffee snob that, when given the choice, will choose to be picky, but ...
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jerobins said:
i don't use the french press as often as i would like.
The end of another class (1)
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A Day in My Life (6)
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I'm wrapping up the organizational psych course I've been taking this summer. I have one paper left to write, application of one of the theories we've learned to a case study. I enjoy organizational psychology and management theory, but this stuff isn't exactly difficult to grasp. It's a whole lot of common sense and it's very easy to slip into the language used in organizational psych. The problem isn't with the theory, though. It's with ...
