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VisualBoyAdvance Homepage - Gameboy Advance Emulator Blackboard The Collegiate Landscape of the Future Here, as in furnaces of boiling gold,Stars dipt, come back, full as their orbs can holdOf glitt’ring light.—Richard Blackmore, Prince Arthur I was an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, a large public institution not unlike hundreds of others around the United States and around the world. As a freshman I lived in a crummy 1960s-era cement-block dormitory where I had to walk around pools of vomit to get to the bathroom, where I never saw anyone under 18 or over 22, and where I met about five people. I moved out at the end of my freshman year and never went into another campus dormitory again. In the end I received a good classroom education at UMass, and as a zoology major I made friends with many other zoologists, both students and faculty. Twenty years later as a faculty member at another large public university, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I asked the students what it was like living in campus dormitories. 1. 2. 3.

Freedom Of Creation Pioneers in 3D Printed Designs Minimum Games, Maximum Fun! Search results Total 8 games found matching the query "Markus". Screenshot Title Author DL's Posts Submitted Description Markus Persson Jan 27, 2010 Disaster! Play Now! Details! MEG4kMAN Jan 27, 2009 Mega Man in four kilobyte! Left 4k Dead Dec 8, 2008 Surrounded by zombies in a strangely planned town, your goal is to find the red safe zones on each level. t4kns Dec 14, 2007 Build tanks, explore the map, harvest gems and try to destroy the enemy before he destroys you. Miners4k Dec 1, 2005 Guide your miners deep below the ground to the gold, then back up to the surface. Sonic Racer 4K Apr 30, 2005 This is a great example of what 4K is really capable of - even pseudo 3D! Hunters 4K This is a great first-person shooter. Dungeon 4K Wolfenstein3D fans rejoice!

Undergraduation March 2005 (Parts of this essay began as replies to students who wrote to me with questions.) Recently I've had several emails from computer science undergrads asking what to do in college. I might not be the best source of advice, because I was a philosophy major in college. Hacking What should you do in college to become a good hacker? The way to be good at programming is to work (a) a lot (b) on hard problems. Odds are this project won't be a class assignment. Another way to be good at programming is to find other people who are good at it, and learn what they know. Some of the smartest people around you are professors. Don't be put off if they say no. Beware, because although most professors are smart, not all of them work on interesting stuff. I never worked as a research assistant, so I feel a bit dishonest recommending that route. Whatever the disadvantages of working by yourself, the advantage is that the project is all your own. Math Everything But what's everything? Jobs Notes

Technology - How to Make Instructables 56 46 25 146 3259 15315 24453 91.3K 3126 4190 108 121.2K 311.3K 652.0K 25686 22703 21912K 26583 291.1K 918.7K 18664 4199 28862 261.2K 411.9K 151.0K 642.2K 501.2K 1073.1K 5314 19823K 11796 761.7K 12800 34689 16503 591.5K 9882 19584 7429 381.3K 31894 381.1K 312.0K 19588 7532 311.3K 26829 21727 271.0K 191.8K 14624 33876 601.1K 321.3K 884.1K 401.7K 20962 How the Public School System Crushes Souls | steve-olson.com “It has been said that whoever asks about our childhood wants to know something about our soul. Society must take time to inquire.” – Isa Helfield 2001 Let me bare my soul for you. When you read about the problems with American education, you usually read statistics about literacy and dropout rates. People are too quick to criticize parents, teachers, administrators, and students. At the end of this post, I will list some books on this subject, followed by a list of links about this subject. The Girl Who Sat in a Bathroom Stall for a Year My wife is a beautiful, capable, intelligent, self-confident, ambitious, entrepreneurial woman. For a significant percentage of kids in our government school system, survival is the only goal. My wife and I both describe our years in the government school system as a prison sentence. I asked her to write a blog post about her experiences with government education, but she won’t do it because thinking about it is too painful and depressing.

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Bienvenue MBA in a Page My buddy Ray Schraff from Hyland Software pointed me to this site containing a comprehensive list of management theories. It is an “MBA in a page,” and I mean that in a pejorative way. Here are some examples from the page: GE/McKinsey matrix, Kaizen philosophy, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Business Process Reengineering, and Scenario Planning. You can use the page as a test: Anyone who knows all these theories is someone you shouldn’t hire. This posting has generated a lot of anger.

News from the Front September 2007 A few weeks ago I had a thought so heretical that it really surprised me. It may not matter all that much where you go to college. For me, as for a lot of middle class kids, getting into a good college was more or less the meaning of life when I was growing up. What was I? A student. A few weeks ago I realized that somewhere along the line I had stopped believing that. What first set me thinking about this was the new trend of worrying obsessively about what kindergarten your kids go to. It turns out I have a lot of data about that. The test applied to a startup is among the purest of real world tests. As well as having precisely measurable results, we have a lot of them. Between the volume of people we judge and the rapid, unequivocal test that's applied to our choices, Y Combinator has been an unprecedented opportunity for learning how to pick winners. I thought I'd already been cured of caring about that. And yet a lot of companies do. Apparently not. How can this be?

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