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> This is not news. If you're numb to it, then it's imperative that it is news. Imagine when the headlines read "Millions killed in Nazi camps" and people said "This is not news."
Godwin's Law
the most shocking realisation for me about the Snowden leaks was how apathetic people were toward their own civil liberties.
If you actually go to http://coursetable.com you will be asked to login through Yale Central Authentication Service, which sends you to: https://secure.its.yale.edu/cas/login?service=http%3A%2F%2Fc... I hope I don't give the administration any good ideas here, but I would seem that they have a much more efficient way to disable the site.
One of the principal issues raised here - and not squarely addressed in the post or the article to which it links - is the extent to which average subjective ratings of courses and professors should be permitted to dominate the decision-making processes of students. Note that Yale's complaint included concerns over "the prominence of class and professor ratings", and the student developers' response was to remove "th…
There is no way that a valid copyright claim can be made over the underlying data because it is a statement of fact . Such a work is not eligible for copyright protection.
This is not news. Most campus have filtering software and the university administration will use it to block websites that make them look bad.
I thought my school was bad but reading this makes the administration at my school look like angels. When I launched a similar service at UNC Chapel Hill, the IT dept blocked requests from my server to theirs for scraping latest data. They claimed I was creating excess load, which is silly because if they really did the math, given how many people were using my service I was probably saving them resources.
One of the principal issues raised here - and not squarely addressed in the post or the article to which it links - is the extent to which average subjective ratings of courses and professors should be permitted to dominate the decision-making processes of students. Note that Yale's complaint included concerns over "the prominence of class and professor ratings", and the student developers' response was to remove "th…
I thought my school was bad but reading this makes the administration at my school look like angels. When I launched a similar service at UNC Chapel Hill, the IT dept blocked requests from my server to theirs for scraping latest data. They claimed I was creating excess load, which is silly because if they really did the math, given how many people were using my service I was probably saving them resources.