Thank you, $39.99 for the paper on the link seemed steep. If it went to the authors I would have no problem paying for it but as we all know - it's not.
Disagree. There would be no computer science without philosophy (but not the other way around).
> ...imagine how boring CS would be if people were ignorant of all of those other subjects.
If we eliminate philosophy from our curriculum, et cetera, I poise that kids entering high school this year will be obsolete by the time they have graduated. Because CS without philosophy is really just machine learning, right?
Stuy High alumnus here ('04). Applications to the Stuy, BK Tech and BX Sci are more rigorous than most college applications - considering this high school is not basing entrance acceptance on GPA/Attendance, what could they possibly be using as an acceptance metric? While it might be good for a few kids who believe (or are told to believe) that Comp Sci is the only way to a six figure job and a life of happiness, something tells me the other aspects of High School might be largely deficient and ultimately, dare I say, self destructive.
> When we designed the game, we were looking at Facebook where aquarium games were very popular – and the average player, according to various blogs was a 43 year old woman!
I have made a couple of games published by PopCap, and from the fanmail I get this stereotype seems to be about right (I wouldn't call it the 'average' gamer, rather the 'typical' one). There's often nothing casual about them - I get email from women complaining that the high score overflows the space allocated to it on the screen after they kept their game going >100 hours.
> Do adults in their 30’s and 40’s play Tap Fish? Yes there are LOTS of them. Do college students play Tap Fish? Yes LOTS of them. How do we know? Many of our users are on the Facebook Tap Fish page and fans of the game, and many more email us every day, and you’re not allowed to have a Facebook account if you’re under 13.
Without a doubt they cut their interviews every way possible - but give it to them that at least they're honest about it and still refer to themselves as "fake news."
In November, an Oregon man filed a federal lawsuit alleging that one of the largest auction sites, Quibids.com, was really a gambling site masquerading as an auction site. The suit seeks class-action status and asks for damages for everybody who lost money at the site.
I agree with you - casinos are gigantic for a reason; just an interesting thought given that gambling sites in the USA are prohibited.
Especially because the target demographic is children (let's hope) for this game, I would not hesitate to call this freemium game-model a text-book scam.
All results come straight from the Youtube API using "location=!" (iirc) parameters to only return geotagged videos.
Since geotagging isn't used that much on YouTube, a lot of "good results" don't appear. Nonetheless, here are some searches that give good mapping:
- occupy movement
- deamdau5 live (not all "artist + live" combo work well)
- parkour
- startupweekend (I just love these events)
- hackathon
The Classics are timeless and thus always relevant, that's why they're still read today. Can anyone really argue that reading Jimmy Carter over Cicero or Marcus Aurelius is preferable because of temporal relevancy factors?
