Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh yes, n gate is pretty awesome! Any clue who runs it?
Secret Unix tip: $ whois n-gate.com (where “$” is your shell prompt)
the owner is not visible in the WHOIS info
Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
31–40 of 49 posts
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#32I always like to joke to people that if they want to learn something, anything at all, all they have to do is take a free class at YouTube university. I’ll have to add HN comments to my joke! (And yes, as a former tech worker with no professional coding experience can vouch I’ve learned a TON here.)
Although today, well, yeah you can pretty much learn anything online and with ebooks if you have the focus and drive.
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#33This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body. Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
Out of interest (and having only read Siddhartha and The Glass-Bead Game), what would you say was his best novel?
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#34They are using snap! an apparent derivative of Scratch. Seriously?
The course sounds exactly like my six graders middle school course. Well the six graders did read Hacker News, so I guess that is what makes it a College Level EE course (eyes roll).
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#35This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body. Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
Which reminds me of the Devil's Dictionary's definition of admiration:
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#36I am thoroughly impressed by the number of people involved in this class. I teach a class at a large European research university and it is the professor plus two TAs, nobody else. That is a difference tuition and funding can make. You get what you pay for. Edit: forgot to mention that there are 460 students registered for the exam. They wonder why we don’t have them write papers...
What's ironic about your statement is that there are many in the US that clamor for "free" university education for "everyone" -- citing how it's done in Europe. However, like everything, there are tradeoffs and unintended consequences that go beyond the simplistic thoughts of the politically and economically naïve. The University of California system, in my amateur opinion is extremely good. In fact, the state unive…
> Of course, there are exceptional European universities and there are terrible American universities, but overall, American university systems seem to be much better than the equivalent in "free" university countries.
I personally think that the typical German university is better than the typical US one, but it is a very different system: In Germany you are very much on your own when you are studying. This teaches you a lot about self-discipline, which employers love. On the other hand, if you are a person who needs a lot of handholding, German universities are probably not for you. In my opinion being able to study mostly for free is more than worth the lack of handholding, but as I said: This system is not for everybody.
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#37Making HN comments assigned reading without also adding http://n-gate.com would sound quite irresponsible, if it were more than the one specific thread the article refers to.
is it me or others also see that CAPTCHA and "loading" thing on main page?
Ok... I guess I have to let out the secret. Open in incognito. After reading, you will realize this is purposeful trap to keep "Hacknews" out :).
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#38I am thoroughly impressed by the number of people involved in this class. I teach a class at a large European research university and it is the professor plus two TAs, nobody else. That is a difference tuition and funding can make. You get what you pay for. Edit: forgot to mention that there are 460 students registered for the exam. They wonder why we don’t have them write papers...
They have really a lot of assistants! For comparison, this term I'll be a LA at the largest Swiss university in a class of ~140 students, we are 1 prof 2 TAs and 4 LAs and we give twice as much homework. Having taken that class myself, I really don't see why we would need more LAs. Unless you want to go the one-on-one hand holding route, also it's not a funding issue, since LAs are basically free.
This is probably more due to a difference between the US and European teaching philosophy.
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#39This getting upvoted and rising toward the top of HN reminds me of Hesse writing about academic/intellectual elites and winning the Nobel prize for it. Magister Ludi wasn’t his best novel, but it was the one that felt most self-gratifying for the voting body. Humans tend to regard as ‘right’/of-value/impressive that which validates their own perspective, sometimes shamelessly.
See also "oscar bait"
>Oscar bait films are theatrical, a word which here means “keeps reminding you that you’re [in] the audience.” So don’t be fooled when the panegyrics pour out over a Spielberg flick about a dog that sniffed out its owner’s cancer and then flew to D.C. to campaign for healthcare reform. The actors are side characters, background dancers. The hero is the camera. It’s the one with the character growth, guilt and redemption, it’s the one for whom the score sings. Which means the hero is…
Re: Hacker News comments are assigned reading for UC Berkeley CS 10 course
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
is it me or others also see that CAPTCHA and "loading" thing on main page?
You know there are people who don't like the HN hivemind, yes? "Hacker News is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement." and "Hacker News is the Slashdot for the smug classes". For the most part I think they are right, though obviously I am still here. I think that says something about me. Some of these people do things like do a redirect based on the referer. Try following one of the l…
It’s weird to call Hacker News a hive mind when all I see is people arguing with each other.