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Texas Education Agency (TEA)'s Accountability Report shows "NO DISTINCTION" for Science at MacArthur High School in 2015. You would think these teachers would appreciate all the he…

I work for Rackspace. On [1], you can actually keep your app in AWS and connect / migrate your data to OR over Direct Connect. On [2], you don't have to shard. There is an option t…

I think that is the point. I would tweak the definition a little and say "Legacy is anything that's not fashionable anymore, but working and still being used just because it's work…

Mason55, I work for Rackspace. The ObjectRocket service does not run on the cloud servers you get from RS. It's actually a different architecture just for MongoDB: flash drives all…

But wouldn't the experiments at least indicate the possibility that they reflect reality?

Customers of any product rarely care what the people involved with the arts and sciences behind those product's creations do. That observation is not restricted to coding or comp s…

Sometimes you just bet on red AND on black to stay safe while keeping the wheel rolling and the drinks coming.

After reading this, i know I am unworthy to comment. However, I will be forwarding this to my wife who gives me a hard time when I, before getting rid of an old computer, remove th…

Two things are striking: - The amounts under debate are small - The DFAS agency's budget is huge (1.36B) Why not eliminate the agency altogether? If we divide $1.36B by the number …

You were really learning through playing. Learning is an investment. Not all play is learning. Another distinction is that children are fed by their parents. So if you have a "pare…

Maybe the title for this should have been "Building a simple app is easy"

After a while, most HN posts just fade away in my memory. I will remember this one forever.

Minority Report? The Matrix? Office Space?

Which is what bennyg said, except in negative numbers.

The worst database design mistake is starting database design after development is almost done!

Going back to school does not automatically make you "look bad" at all. It shows your commitment to education and to finish what you started. There has to be some other reason you …

I agree. Basically, do something. Don't just sit there. Too much reality for some.

Where is data that link political persuasion and clothing preference? I see all kinds of people at Babies'R'Us making the same color choices.

That is a simplistic definition. You exclude actions or systemic patterns, just to name a few things to think about. Go to implicit.harvard.edu for a couple of eye opening experime…

Probably as much as google did for search back in the day.

The purpose is also to... Learn.

Not to mention that you end up knowing a lot more about [the tool] than you knew before the project, given that it is such an unusual project.

I don't know if this is obvious, or if it applies to all kinds of jobs. Something I do is give all candidates an assignment: here is a problem, solve it, and let's discuss it over …