I am the author of the article. Indeed, I am a programmer, but believe it or not, I have also taught people. Thus, I think I am eligible to say that no, people don't need teachers anymore. Not in the traditional, preaching sense, anyway.
Please, don't get me wrong - the right role model is becoming increasingly more important than ever, especially, now that everyone is essentially talkign to a piece of software that conjures up words statistically.
What you gave as an example is illustrating this better than anything else - anyone could just spit out the course material, and students may still not get a word of what has been said. And then, there are others, like a late professor of mine, who would just ramble on the most seemingly random things in class, and would still make people show up, share their opion, defend their theses, and show that they've grasped the subject matter.
Yes, teaching is a skill - but one that no longer has to do with reciting over the course material.
// Yes, teaching is a skill - but one that no longer has to do with reciting over the course material. //
..it never had anything whatsoever to do with just reciting over the course material.
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I don't disagree because your article lacked plausibility to the general public, or that it was rhetorically ineffective, or anything like that. Like I said, I would have wholeheartedly gone along with your article before I started teaching. I might even have wholeheartedly gone along with it if I had only taught at, say, community college, teaching adults.
Just like I was full of good advice on how to have great marriage before I got married. We disagree because we've had different experiences.
// but believe it or not, I have also taught people. //
No doubt you have a store of experiences which nobody else has had, and have seen points of view we have not. Please write about those, something you are actually more than an expert on, something which nobody else could say. This "we don't need traditional education" schtick is old and stale. Don't forget Peter Thiel actually ran an experiment over 10 years ago, paying kids $100,000 to not go to college. Give us something new and fresh.
hi there, I am the author of the article. Thanks for posting it here! Could you please, set the title to: "3 (+1) Things Evernote Got Right" or "3 Things Evernote Got Right"? I am assuming that the HN scraper did not get it right.
It’s always a trade-off of how much you’ll get from an upgrade, vs. how much time, effort, and pain you’ll have to invest to do the switch. Postgres is at a stage, where a single version can easily outlive the duration of the software you’ve built with it. Let’s be honest here, a vast majority of software doesn’t need a fraction of the requirements we think it does, frankly, because no one uses it to the extent that latest and greatest features would make the experience more pleasant.
It's a great one! We've been using it for our "Readable HN" collection on Feedle: https://feedle.world/hacker-news. Front Page entries would get checked, and we'd pick ones that we think would be worth reading (based on a few subjective criteria - length, presence and frequency of certain words, mood, etc.)
I am sorry, but "it's built with Electron" is all I need to know at this point. I appreciate the effort you've put in it, and I am sure that it is a great improvement. After all, I am using VS Code on a daily basis, and it's all about Electron, so I don't think that it will be that much slower than a fully native app. However, there is something about the minimal footprint nature of native macOS that I just can't go around. You just feel the snappiness of it, on a sub-nano-second level.
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I think it would provide very little productivity boost if any (is anybody’s work seriously bottlenecked by the time it takes to find the navigation keys? What are they doing?). But also, I can’t think of any reason not to use the keys that you rest your fingers on for navigation. I mean, why not?
A good argument could be made that vi is all about the typing speed boost you get from not using a meta key like control (or later alt or fn). The specific keys didn't matter, although having them near the home row is helpful.
Vi has the same model input model as teco/xtec and shares their key press economy. Emacs which started life as a teco macros went the other way. Decades ago I tried both and abandoned Emacs when the finger in charge of the control key started to ache. It was not just slower, it was painfully slower.
The article does not draw any conclusions on whether hjkl navigation leads to a productivity boost or not. I’ll just say, it certainly feels cozy to have navigation where your right hand is meant to sit according to touch-typing canon. Maybe that’s why they put the arrows there in those legacy keyboards in the first place.
Then jkl; would make more sense, since it wouldn't require moving one's right hand from the home keys on a QWERTY keyboard. If I'm going to shift right anyway U for up, H for left, J for down, and K for right makes more sense (like arrow keys).
Please, don't get me wrong - the right role model is becoming increasingly more important than ever, especially, now that everyone is essentially talkign to a piece of software that conjures up words statistically.
What you gave as an example is illustrating this better than anything else - anyone could just spit out the course material, and students may still not get a word of what has been said. And then, there are others, like a late professor of mine, who would just ramble on the most seemingly random things in class, and would still make people show up, share their opion, defend their theses, and show that they've grasped the subject matter.
Yes, teaching is a skill - but one that no longer has to do with reciting over the course material.