lightonphiri

8 lat temudiscuss

I have been cycling to work, during my 4.6 km commute, every Friday, for the last three months now. (1) I save about USD 10.00 every Friday: a substantial amount in the part of the world I live in (2) I get off work two hours early on Fridays, so I use this time to explore the city (3) This is a form of exercise for me.

lightonphiri

8 lat temudiscuss

I started this while in gradschool---left gradschool about six months ago, after seven years. It is so funny how this particular habit has stuck on me. I have found I actually enjoy cooking now [...]

lightonphiri

10 lat temudiscuss

In my previous life, MD of company I worked for gave a copy of Who Moved My Cheese to all 300+ employees. Great read.

lightonphiri

10 lat temudiscuss

> I also believe that you should make the most of the city you live in.

Care to talk more about this. I know it might seem obvious, but I would really love to hear how you make the most of living in Detroit for instance.

lightonphiri

11 lat temudiscuss

It certainly does look like it was made by Microsoft Office, however, pdfinfo says Producer: PDF Annotator 5.0.0.511 [Debenu Quick PDF Library 11.15 (www.debenu.com)]

lightonphiri

11 lat temudiscuss

Yes, MOSS does that.

I have been TA'ing a first year Python Programming course since beginning of this year; what you describe is the most common trick used by students---even though they have been told time and again that this will be detected.

As an example, MOSS picked up 91% similarity---between two students---for one of the module files.

  # Student 1
  at1 = input("Attempt 1:\n")
  at2 = input("Attempt 2:\n")
  at3 = input("Attempt 3:\n")
  maxi.append(max(eval(at1),eval(at2),eval(at3)))

  # Student 2
  attempt1 = input("Attempt 1:\n")
  attempt2 = input("Attempt 2:\n")
  attempt3 = input("Attempt 3:\n")
  maximums.append(max(eval(attempt1),eval(attempt2),eval(attempt3)))

I find it interesting that MOSS does a one-on-one comparison for each student.

lightonphiri

12 lat temudiscuss

I have been using whatsapp-purple---a WhatsApp protocol implementation of libpurple [1] for some time now and it works really well.

That being said, accessing it from within a browser window has it's advantage. I currently have to install whatsapp-purple on all machines I use & syncronising chatlogs via Dropbox has it's challenges...

[1] https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple

lightonphiri

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