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I use newsinslowfrench.com for this very reason. They have a whole library of grammer lessons and language learning courses, but the main product really is that every week they produce 4 "news broadcasts" actually talking about news of the week by native speakers. In addition to the general listening reenforcement, each weeks script emphasizes a particular element of grammer and comes along with that topics lesson. They product both a speaking slow and speaking at a normal speed version so you can start with the slow one to get an understanding of what is happening, then listen to the actual speed lesson and have a chance. It's an awesome program, but it doesn't scale to other languages in the way that some general-purpsoe learn all the languages startup can.

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Gamer gate was Zoe Quinn cheating on her boyfriend with game "journalists" in order to get marketing for her Depression Quest game. That is the core of it and NOBODY contests those facts. The rest of the misandrist narrative is just Quinn and said journalists grabbing on to the social justice zietgiest in an attempt to do damage control.

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It's not about having female characters in games, that's never been a problem.

It's about totally rewriting history to appease the modern woke sensibility that people were complaining about.

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He really isn't.

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Then teach them biology and statistics, and the issues of regulatory capture so they learn why vaccines are causing an epidemic.

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I think your line about rote excersizing allowing education to scale to millions is an often lost point when talking about the problems with modern education systems.

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home has an interesting comment on this issue. The author, with a Masters in Education and years working in public schools, says that she often runs into parents who are worried they are not qualified to teach because they do not have formal training in big-E Education. Her response is that our Education training system, with all of its study of psychology and law, is not designed around educating a single child to their maximal potential, but about scaling up education so that a single teacher can teach a room of 40 children to a socially acceptable minimum. From this point of view professional educators have no advantage over the individual parent and may even bring along irrelevant habits from their formal training.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Wow had the same problem with my CS department. I think part of the problem is that there was much more demand for slots in the CS department from people who were woefully unqualified but looking to make bank.

I transferred over to the maths department who welcomed me with open arms, took all my credits, and then beat the every living shit out of my brain so much harder than the CS department ever would have.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

However....

Users BELIEVE Excel supports CSV file. That's the reality on the ground. Fighting against that is a losing battle.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

My issues is not the runtime dependency but the development dependancy. As the production apps I am responsible for keep getting older and older my opinions on ruthlessly cutting decencies get stronger and stronger.

Somewhere there's probably an optimal expected lifespan of a program where the line between preferring a better language and fewer development dependencies is crossed, but I'm also starting to learn that software stays around years longer than I ever anticipated.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I'd still blame the individual developer for poor naming. Naming a variable something like int_list is terrible in that it's both very specific and semantically meaningless. Either choose a semantic name like grades or part_numbers, or take a hint from ML convention and use semantically void names like "xs".

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Clojurescript is the worst offender on that list from the point of view of "needlessly complicated." I can't imagine a dependency I want less than the Google Closure tools. I swear Closure is probably the only tool with fewer devs who understand it than autoconf.

I'm not critiquing any of those languages, in a perfect world any of them in the browser would have been preferable to Javascript. The issue is the tower of dependancies we are building, and you have to stop somewhere.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

This feels more like developers learning that any variation on Hungarian notation is a bad idea.

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That's my personal heuristic and why I continue to reject TS just like I avoided coffee script, flow, clojurescript, and so on.

But this article reads like "Developer who only used dynamic typing learns about static types." You could sub in any two such languages and get the same article.

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