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I had exams at 11, 14 and 18 - No big deal there, it is a great learning occasion. Those who follow professionalizing schools get an additional exam at 16... No brain damage has ever occurred from an exam.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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But school systems receive government subsidies based on how the students perform on the standardized exams, which means teachers are compelled to "teach to the exam", which means students aren't getting the more comprehensive educations they used to get.
The intent was sound (making sure students are getting "appropriate" level of instruction), but the schools systems are gaming that intent to get more money.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This is the situation now in Italy with the INVALSI tests. When I went to school the system was different, there is and always has been a ministerial teaching program with mandatory and optional topics year per year.
The tests were ministerial but tailored to each class, so that if for reasons some part of the program were not touched they were not asked in the exam. There was no graduatory, only a grade (the grade system changed too many times to be worthy of mention, usually 5 votes with 1 not-pass and 4 passes).
In my opinion they were great experiences: subject kids to stress, have them work hard for something and then they pass. It teaches stress and time management from an early age.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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So wait until people are 99 or older, when their brains can't absorb knowledge.
That'll learn 'em!
Her entire argument points to the very obvious fact that her conclusions are completely and utterly erroneous.
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I worry more about the testing of 10/11 year-olds.
The UK SATS are beyond a joke - asking young kids about stupidly obtuse grammatical points and assuming that their mystified guesses somehow represent the quality of their schools.
Do you actually know what a modal verb is? I sure as hell don't and when various Ministers of Education have been asked similar questions, they haven't known the answers either. Somehow, though, a kid in Year 6 is deemed to be a failure for not guessing correctly (and by extension, his teacher is deemed a failure, too).
I increasingly imagine the Ministry to be run by a dysfunctional Dalek that constantly screams "MATRICULATE! MAT-RIC-U-LAAAAATE!"
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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A modal verb is one that prevents you from using other verbs until you've finished using it...
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Does it hide itself under all the other available verbs while it's at it?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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In-the-know security experts talking to the New York Times said the malware in the cyberattacks is using the NSA's stolen EternalBlue as a "key component," much like WannaCry and NotPetya. Who could have predicted that someone would use those nefariously?
You know, besides everyone.
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Hey, they're US malwareses and US cities, so a certain person who lives in a certain-coloured house should be pleased that his slogans are being obeyed!
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Created by internet artist Guo O Dong, this piece of art is an ordinary laptop filled with six of the world’s most dangerous pieces of malware. If that's the case, I just have to borrow my brother-in-law's laptop and I'll be rich!
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Idiot.
If he'd encased it in a transparent plastic block and cut it in half, he could have won the Turner prize!
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Just found a C# 8 nullable reference types warning in Noda Time. Fixing it by changing Foo(x, x?.Bar) to Foo(x, x?.Bar!) which looks really dodgy… anyone want to guess why it’s okay? C#?!
Almost using as many punctuation characters as C++.
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Quote: But now the compiler warns that the second argument could be null, and the parameter is meant to be non-null.
That's the point you lost me... How it comes?
And if it does warn in C# 8 than we have a big problem because the code (without the ! operator) compiles with no problem (as it should) in C# 7... (and that because the public Delivery(Person recipient, Address address) method has no problem whatsoever to receive null in every parameter you choose)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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He didn't put a fullpoint (leftpond: period) at the end, so it won't compile in COBOL.
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Researchers have developed a simple and highly novel form of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different facets of a polymer cube and reading the combined results that emerge. Computing via Lite Brite
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Breaking News: Hackers use iphone mirror app to steal personal data!
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Science Daily wrote Researchers have developed a simple and highly novel form of computing by shining patterned bands of light and shadow through different facets of a polymer cube and reading the combined results that emerge.
What's the big deal? I've heard people were doing this back in the '60s with LSD.
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The Windows Sandbox is a Windows 10 virtual machine that can be quickly launched so you can test downloaded programs,browsers extensions, and suspect sites without risk of infecting your normal Windows operating system. "Remember what happens to castles of sand"
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Update: The sandbox is such a basic version of winio that it includes almost none of the cr@p that makes it the garbage that it is, so users have opted en masse to use it all the time, instead of the Best! Windows! Evah!
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The clear intermediate answer is “because DOS and OS/2 used backslash”. Slash-nonfiction
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A more pertinent question is "Why does this stupid website use recaptcha"?
Blocked.
Never to be seen.
I can live without it.
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Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? | OS/2 Museum
Archive.org link because the original was apparently slashdotted (reddited? hackernewsed? insidered?) offline.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The SpaceX company has begun the roll-out of its orbiting broadband system. MuskNet begins
Hmm. Maybe I need better branding on that. Elonternet?
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Update: Global warming exacerbated by too-fruggin'-many reflective objects in geostationary orbit.
And Superman sues for hair-care costs.
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