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JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns

The Florida standardized math tests and the SAT have fill-in math questions as well as multiple choice. Teachers themselves can choose whether the students must show their work for their tests. In my experience, most only check the answer, but some do check the work.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Extensive logging facility for iOS apps: database, Telnet, HTTP server

This is not the first library I've seen like that. I'm curious, though. Do any apps actually use logging this extensively? The telnet certainly seems a bit over the top.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety

Agreed. Tampa, Orlando, and the other big cities are like any others. In the middle of the state or the Everglades, though, you can go miles without even a turnoff.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Deploy your websites from Dropbox

How do you deal with naming conflicts?

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Transmit for iOS

No

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Bukkit no longer available for download. Hit with DMCA takedown.

Fun fact: Mojang bought Bukkit. (@jeb_ tweeted the other day. This notice states that bukkit uses Minecraft's code without permission, and it did at one point. Now, though, as Mojang owns both, I think it should be allowed. Oh, and a Mojang employee (Dinnerbone) has stated he will be updating it to support 1.8.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Apple two-step protection won’t protect your data

Nothing has changed, this is how Apple's 2FA still works. It's relevant because this is how the celebrity hacking happened this weekend: their passwords were brute forced, and they didn't need to break the 2FA as well because it is only needed to make purchases.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Mosh: A replacement for SSH

Kill the pane (prefix x) and then run `reset`, maybe?

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTm1tJYr5_M

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: A Chrome extension to get around the WSJ paywall

What is the workaround?

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Exploring Swift Memory Layout

This was on the front page a few days ago.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)

http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-pa... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081532) has some screenshots with blurred email addresses you can read without fancy deciphering.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Google Virgle: Google's 2008 April Fools Joke

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Google Analytics iOS app

It's iPhone only, and looks rather annoying on an iPad.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period

$40,159 in revenue

is at the end of the first paragraph

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Swift Blog

    countElements(string)

returns the number of Unicode code points in a string. I'm not sure about the random character, though. Swift is very much oriented towards Unicode rather than bytes when it comes to strings.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts

Your video player does not show controls (http://cdn.sublimevideo.net/js/03un6j5a.js as linked in the HTML redirects to http://sublimevideo.net, not JS)

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)

101000 lines, 500 lines per error gives about 200 errors, not 20

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: SSH Tricks

There's been a bunch of articles about ssh that all say more or less the same things recently.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

I'm working on an app for my school's bell schedule, and a website to go with it. I've already created an app for the school newspaper: http://joshuaoldenburg.com/apps/steinbrenner-oracle