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Re:Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:28PM (#19515684)
This is really nothing new. "Ethical problems will never be resolved by a software tool" [1]

The author uses a straw man argument that plagiarism detection software promises to "replace the professor" when in fact, it is just a tool.

Besides, there are highly sophisticated ways of cheating that even a professor would not catch reliably. I wrote my undergrad thesis about plagiarism and it was interesting to learn that there are students who are highly motivated to "beat the system" instead of doing the task properly.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248606848_Support_f...

Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming on Sunday May 03, 2015 @06:23PM (#9483318)
How does the "your concurrent program can never have data races" claim go along with Actor model indeterminism and message interleaving?
Re:Don't depend on JavaScript to render your page on Saturday March 14, 2015 @08:00AM (#9202324)
At least in Angular, you can just use ngCloak to avoid the flickering:

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngCloak

Re:Anki – Powerful, intelligent flashcards on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:16PM (#7723530)
I've been using Anki for a hybrid approach to learn for some university courses, learning with the Android app during commute and physical paper cards at home. shameless plug: I wrote a small tool to export Anki decks to PDF: https://github.com/nordicway/a2pdf Only works for simple cards though.