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WHOIS John Galt posted:i want retina avatars for a new era of posting
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Feb 4, 2013 03:58
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my stepdads beer posted:my uni waited until 4th semester for our weed out class so you've already paid for at least a year and a half of classes. i think they deliberately under taught the prerequisites as part of their cunning plan. only around 10-15% of students passed lol. I know a number of Uni's shoot for ~50% attrition in the first three classes. Makes the third class interesting because you still have all the people who barely passed the second freaking out.
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Feb 4, 2013 05:29
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Meiwaku posted:I know a number of Uni's shoot for ~50% attrition in the first three classes. Makes the third class interesting because you still have all the people who barely passed the second freaking out. the third class in my cs program was architecture/assembly/organization which i would estimate 30-40% of the students had to retake for a passing grade if they didn't just drop the major
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Feb 4, 2013 06:01
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im dumbfounded i graduated
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Feb 4, 2013 06:40
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i barely GNU her! posted:the third class in my cs program was architecture/assembly/organization which i would estimate 30-40% of the students had to retake for a passing grade if they didn't just drop the major the third class in mine was baby's first proof course, intro to symbolic logic, discrete math, formal verification. it was supposed to be a weed-out course, but the professor put a minimum passing grade in the syllabus and accidentally made the final too easy so everybody passed. think the third weed-out course is fun? imagine the weed-outs in second and third-year theory courses. the next term there were actual nervous breakdowns in the labs. people literally crying while publicly begging grad students for extensions. two years into a program with absolutely no hope of passing any of their courses, too stubborn or stupid to switch to something else unless the program chair forces them to. that's why CS has weed-out courses.
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Feb 4, 2013 07:35
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WHOIS John Galt posted:im dumbfounded i graduated
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Feb 4, 2013 07:45
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Null Pointer posted:that's why CS has weed-out courses. because people are too stupid to realize their c- in a first year course probably means they wont be able to make it through the rest of the major?
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Feb 4, 2013 07:46
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i mean im all for people proving that poo poo wrong and working their asses off by realistically youre gonna get high get drunk live lyfe and be a comm major if your go to a school for the poors (state school)
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Feb 4, 2013 08:36
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if you worked hard in college youre missing the point entirely
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Feb 4, 2013 11:35
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tef, thanks for writing what I'm thinking (mostly) since I never got around to it. Our weedout course was 2nd year and taught in SML. Functional scared off a lot of people. Though I guess the first year course where day 1 was "this course will be using java but we wont be teaching it to you because this is CS not Programming" probably scared some people off, too.
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Feb 4, 2013 17:01
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WHOIS John Galt posted:im dumbfounded i graduated same
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Feb 4, 2013 17:04
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man i wanted to write a video game with the old sierra agi interpreter from king's quest 3 but the language doesn't even support functions
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Feb 4, 2013 17:22
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Given the price of higher education in the US you'd guess they weed people out before the second year or something, as a service.
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Feb 4, 2013 18:32
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MononcQc posted:Given the price of higher education in the US you'd guess they weed people out before the second year or something, as a service. public universities do this to the extent they are legally allowed. which is why i'm always baffled that people think private schools are somehow superior.
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Feb 4, 2013 18:39
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Ericadia posted:Reading one of this guys books for a class right now. So much for ever being able to concentrate on it again. That fuckin hair The hair is the source of his power.
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Feb 4, 2013 18:43
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rotor posted:public universities do this to the extent they are legally allowed. actually learned that in middle school, my parents took me out of the public school system for 7th and 8th grade. the people at those schools were a hundred thousand times worse than any of the bullying in public school because they were the brats who had been kicked out of all the other schools in the region and whose parents could afford the tuition
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Feb 4, 2013 18:43
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havelock posted:tef, thanks for writing what I'm thinking (mostly) since I never got around to it. In ours we did hoare logic and finite automata, taught by a prof with a thick finnish accent and a stutter who posted absolutely nothing online.
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Feb 4, 2013 20:09
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WHOIS John Galt posted:actually learned that in middle school, my parents took me out of the public school system for 7th and 8th grade. the people at those schools were a hundred thousand times worse than any of the bullying in public school because they were the brats who had been kicked out of all the other schools in the region and whose parents could afford the tuition this is why you have to go to schools with admissions requirements, not just monetary Jerry SanDisky posted:The hair is the source of his power. you should see him when he goes super saiyan EDIT: This has me more excited than the set list for coachella http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2013/01/effective-c11-content-and-status.html FamDav fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Feb 4, 2013 20:11
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tef posted:today I am experimenting with link bait titles adding to the tef circle jerk your talk was excellent and it reminded me of something I should never forget but constantly do. Thanks!
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Feb 4, 2013 20:15
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polpotpi posted:if you worked hard in college youre missing the point entirely
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Feb 4, 2013 20:36
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you have to balance the party and school
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Feb 4, 2013 20:40
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thats why you go to public school you can coast through cause 6 months in your first job you'll learn more than 4 years of college
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Feb 4, 2013 20:43
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graduating with lots of sex and drugs under your belt and 0 debt before a lifetime of work, or sure, i'll actually work hard when im 18, right before i start the rest of my life doing soulcrushing poo poo for other people
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Feb 4, 2013 20:44
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it was a state university
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Feb 4, 2013 20:44
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well then dont be a total idiot look, i can't do everything for you
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Feb 4, 2013 20:47
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polpotpi posted:graduating with lots of sex and drugs under your belt and 0 debt before a lifetime of work, or sure, i'll actually work hard when im 18, right before i start the rest of my life doing soulcrushing poo poo for other people haha what the gently caress are you doing that it is literally soul crushing, like irl crushing your spirit day in and day out.
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Feb 4, 2013 21:27
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FamDav posted:haha what the gently caress are you doing that it is literally soul crushing, like irl crushing your spirit day in and day out. prob help desk
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Feb 4, 2013 21:33
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lol im talking about other people, all i do is dick around irc and travel around the country
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Feb 4, 2013 21:34
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polpotpi posted:thats why you go to public school you can coast through cause 6 months in your first job you'll learn more than 4 years of college i cant even begin to describe my university connections like the easiest example is "i've never gone into an interview without first having a personal phone call with a VP" how's public schoolin on that front
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Feb 4, 2013 22:51
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JawnV6 posted:i cant even begin to describe my university connections yeah i took the easy way out and chose to be born to well connected parents so grades and school didnt matter
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Feb 4, 2013 22:54
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ok, if you dont go to a top tier school for your field private school is a waste of time
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Feb 4, 2013 22:56
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cw"d"s: I don't get to do a lot of css so right now im abusing :before to add labels to stuff
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Feb 4, 2013 22:59
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JawnV6 posted:i cant even begin to describe my university connections got all my networkin' goin' from IRC and mailing lists
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Feb 4, 2013 23:57
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/mode #yospos +ntm "yOSPOS bITCH!"
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Feb 4, 2013 23:58
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irc is getting kinda weird and apparently is up to version 3 http://ircv3.atheme.org
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Feb 5, 2013 00:46
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still no standard text encoding though. who needs it?
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Feb 5, 2013 00:48
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JawnV6 posted:i cant even begin to describe my university connections Never? For real? drat.
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Feb 5, 2013 01:07
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that was a white lie, there was some good ol fashioned nepotism instead of uni for a couple
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i'm not sure i would call that linkbait, since your article is directly relevant to the headline and supports the same thesis. I mean 'a title like this will draw more clicks than a less flaming one' let's see what that did to the graph  first two peaks: mentioned 'dijkstra' in the title (hn, then reddit a few days later) second peak: making fun of my old company with title 'framework first, product last' third peak: saying well known adage is wrong. moral: if I want attention I should write character assassinations edit: I don't have any data from when I got on hn with my first blog entry
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