I sent a detailed support request to Rosetta Stone, explaining my problem (with a record / playback feature) and what I tried. I got this back: "Please increase the volume in the computer and try to record."
@jadarnel27 In that one message, you've turned me from being just-about-to-complain about a "public shaming" website to recommending that you submit new content to them.
I remember hearing about Bitcoin a long time ago. Not early enough for me to get in on the ground floor, but certainly a single-digit-numbered floor. Lesson learned: devote extensive time and energy to all Internet/tech fads I hear about henceforth.
I want a mouse that controls the cursor on whatever device I'm looking at. Having my personal laptop and work laptop next to each other is too confusing.
Too early to make promises, but the current MSO chat should become the new MSE chat. The new MSO will just be a per-site meta for SO, no different than any other per-site meta, so it'll become part of SO's chat.
Although, again, I could be wrong, and even if I'm not wrong based on the current plans, I could become wrong just because nothing is set in stone yet.
But as Undo pointed out, the current MSO chat is kept separate so we can try things out here without messing with other stuff. Really just an extension of the overall MSO policy. We rolled out the new top bar for testing on MSO before doing it network-wide, for example.
@3ventic Disclaimer: that decision was made when chat was introduced, long before I joined the team. Based on my memory of public discussions from back then, though: the thinking was that SO alone was so big that its chatters could easily fill up a full chat server.
That was my CS100 prof's challenge to me. Add dancing flames to a webpage. He wasn't impressed that I went with an animated gif rather than learning about fractals, etc for drawing them :P
@Pops Well, yeah... For perspective though the class had 12 people in it, the average grade on the midterm was about 40% and me and one other person had a 100%. He was just trying to keep the two of us busy...
I was involved with a research project for my senior project in college that was trying to find a solution to the problem where half the people in intro programming courses have no idea what they're doing, and the other half are bored by how easy it is.
'Twas a federally funded project, headed up by one of the professors in the CS department. I was just doing grunt work. But I thought it was very interesting.
I wasn't around for the end of it, @hichris123. But their approach of using video games to teach intro CS concepts before college (like, in middle school) apparently showed promise.
@hichris123 It was more about getting kids to play a game that forced them to think about / use introductory programming concepts (loops, conditional statements, variables, etc).
I think I was unclear. We weren't trying to get kids to be interested in making video games.
@hichris123 There was one that played music, and you could choreograph a virtual character to dance to the music. But you did that with little drag-and-drop programming-esque statements that made the character do dance moves.
You could make it do the same move several times by using a loop.
Or use a conditional block to make it do a move on every third beat.
