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I know someone who earned an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry without attending a single lecture. He finished in the top 1/3 of the graduating class for that department. But I …

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Can't disagree with what she's saying. But I'd add that if we're talking about firms whose business is computers, 15 years feels like 75.

Maybe we just set the bar too low. By doing so, not only do we hurt the bright kids by boring them to tears, but we presume based on test scores(?) that certain children could thro…

This does not say much for the value of testing _and making presumptions based on test results_. Note the emphasis on the second part of that sentence. Testing is ok. Recognising t…

Very true. For how to "solve" those problems in education I have never had any decent ideas. No doubt many readers here have experienced them first hand. I just see a lot of attent…

Another deceptive title designed to attract clicks. The problem is with how we attribute achievement, how we praise kids, not the kids themselves. But the title as written attracts…

"Value extractors". Spot on. With few if any exceptions they will never add value. Their expertise is in locating value someone else has created and then drinking from that fountai…

Maybe the question is not why you have to pay for your car, but why you _do not_ have to pay to view information via a website, store a copy of this in RAM and/or save a copy using…

So with Lisp or even Forth, the proper approach would be to have "Lisp chips" or "Forth chips" (which were recently discussed here)?

Thoughts of Yelp come to mind. Businesses paying to protect their reputations. Except we extend this even further. He envisions "a review site that reviews the review sites". It ap…

I can envision a relatively easy way to implement this without writing lots of code. How big do you think the market is for internet-based "code search"? I think code search is ver…

It's just a thought. A "what if". I trace the existence of many languages to having no common instruction set in hardware. Different assembly languages for different hardware. This…

Even if you are adept in using a highly efficient and effective language for doing each job, if no one else is using the language it's utility becomes limited. That's because none …

It is crucial in my opinion how you define the goals of your project.

From the genius who brought us what Google adapted as AdSense. I applaud this effort. I'm no Spike Lee, but in my opinion this is doing the right thing. Let people compete over wha…