bluetwo

The acceptance of garbage customer support in this country drives me nuts. Other countries have laws that say a human must at least respond to your support request. We have nothing like that.

The way it is used in movies and tv comes to mind.

Trying to avoid site amnesia, like Reddit has, I assume.

I was chatting about him with a friend and pointing out all the things in the room influenced by him. Of course he led a pretty normal life, so no one is going to make a "Beautiful Mind" type movie about him. Other than playing his record player too loud in his office and having wild martini happy hours with his wife and friends, I can't find anything controversial about him.

As far as solving well defined problems, I don't necessarily think brainstorming is great. That's never how I've seen it used.

But for better defined unstructured problems and then turning to novel solutions, it is great.

It bothers me that corporations don't use it that way MORE. And I dearly HATE meetings.

Also, the hip term these days is "ideation" not "brainstorming". Get with the times, boomer. (Just kidding--almost a boomer here)

You don't need them to understand it. You need them to repeat the right words after donating to their campaign. That's how everything works.

So you would be against crypto getting bailed out by the government?

Hah. OK.

That only works if you can convince those in the government that it is "too big to fail". This is why there has been a push to get politicians involved.

When bitcoin fails (and it will), those who mine will be the first to move their value out to whatever BitCoin2.0 is. Then they will be able to charge whatever they want to the suckers left who want to exit, because you literally will have to pay the miners transaction fees to let you do this, and there will be no cap on what they can charge.

The final appeal will be to the government, saying "you bailed out the banks, homeowners, students, the auto industry, the airline industry, why not those who lost money in bitcoin?"

Waiting for the day when I can buy a MadoffCoin. Or TulipCoin. Or plain old PonziCoin.

For the first part I'm describing, no, they don't need classmates. For the second part, yes, they do.

Mostly corporate learning focused on specific job tasks is what I do. Building tools for online learning and using instructional design to build the training. This is very different than teaching fundamentals to kids, even beyond accommodating different skill levels. But of course it relies on people having a solid foundation. Without that you can't build anything.

I don't know jack about teaching kids, but I do know a lot about teaching adults.

The crying shame I see in this whole endeavor is the emphasis on re-creating the classroom online. Half of what you teach (really in any topic) is foundational knowledge -- terms, models, history, important people and events. This is better taught offline at the learner's pace. Give then ways to monitor their understanding -- ungraded exercises, graded quizzes, papers, etc.

The best use of synchronous time to cover the higher level skills involving the application of that knowledge. This means interacting with the students in ways that give them the ability show they understand what you are teaching, letting them screw up, and gently guiding them back on the right path. This is also the hardest but most rewarding part of teaching.

Every parent talk to (I don't have kids) complains about the same thing and the source seems to be the fact this was all jammed online in a short amount of time, without teachers being able to divide their materials into these two parts. This leads to teachers just doing what they did in the classroom but in front of Zoom.

I think online learning is great, but this has led to a lot of people forming poor opinions of it, and I feel like that is a real shame. Schools should have been heading in this direction for years. The technology is there. It seems that entrenched forces have kept it from happening.

What city?

Interesting. I wonder if Apple privacy policies killed it. Or if the fact everyone is using the same 10 web sites for everything has eroded the need.

Screw that guy.

I don't think he is talking about tech founders. I think he is talking about mom and pop businesses of all types.

Tech founders are a different breed.

Exactly. First rule is making a fraud is to associate it with something credible.

At some point Google is going to let you simply narrow your search to the dozen or so sites you regularly visit. The rest of the web, outside the top 100, is dying.

Wonder if NSO was involved in that leak of Bezo's phone data awhile back.

My brother graduated with a similar degree from a less prestigious school (Temple University) and has been working in the industry for over 20 years.

To me it looks like a grip.

Interesting article but it needs more ads.

Nothing Blue Tooth "just works"... maybe in another 100 years or so.

Is that how we ended up with the MCAS debacle?

A good lawyer, like a good programmer isn't valued just on their output, but on the questions they ask that lead them to the correct output. This is much more difficult to encode.

All the time. When a politician, member of the media, or a client says "X causes Y" I'll usually follow up with one of the following:

- Does X ALWAYS cause Y? - Can Y happen WITHOUT X? - Could X cause OTHER things that cause Y?

You know at first glance I would say this isn't true, since SWOT analysis covers this pretty well. Then again, I didn't learn SWOT in any programming class, it was in business classes.

I thought the article was well written. Can I suggest trying again?

The point was not tho explain HOW to avoid planes crashing, it was to explain how he saw his job not that of providing super-clear weather reports ,but focusing the reports on factors that would cause problems for pilots.

Yes, what he is really doing is what's known in photography and video as "color grading". where you narrow or short the hues used in an image.

All I can think of is how many times I've grabbed a code example from StackOverflow only to discover it had some obvious bug in it. The answer is many, many times.