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1. I’ve been a student all my life. When I was growing up I loved building things with legos. My friends and I spent countless hours building everything from towns to robots.
2. We weren’t just tinkering around with toys... we were playing.
3. Play is the child’s first exposure to real-world problem solving.
4. When playing, children must figure out how to use all of the tools available to accomplish a goal, such as building a house out of legos, or creating a sandcastle in a sandbox.
5. John Holt, American author and pioneer in youth rights theory, wrote in How Children Learn “The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he can see other people doing. He is open, perceptive, and experimental. He does not merely observe the world around him. He does not shut himself off from the strange, complicated wor

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pkgname=gsutil
pkgver=v3.31
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A command line tool for interacting with cloud storage services."
arch=('any')
url="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil"
license=('APACHE')
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source=('http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pub/gsutil.tar.gz')

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am zachlatta on github.
• I am zrl (https://keybase.io/zrl) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 6E8A A24A 6733 60F5 65CF A508 5678 1342 B5D9 D60E

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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So much this.

A few bits I've noticed over 25+ years in the industry:

• Tell me what your product is. What it does, where it works, how it does it, what it requires. Is it a physical product (or is it shipped in one), an interactive application, a Web service, a programming language / tool?
• Tell me what the fuck it is EVERY GODDAMNED TIME YOU COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE PRODUCT. It doesn't have to be long or detailed, you can link to your detailed description in the communication. But your press releases, emails, Tweets, blog posts, marketing collateral, etc., are going to get passed around, word-of-mouthed, and/or pulled out of drawers (or browser history / searches) for weeks, months, and years to come. Make them work for you.
• The Economist's practice of briefly introducing any individual, no matter how famous or obscure, is a wonderful practice of microcontent contextualization. "Using the Economist house style offers an elegant alternative, wherein virtually all people and organizations are identified exp

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1. The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment.
2. The internship experience is for the benefit of the intern.
3. The intern does not displace regular employees, but works under close supervision of existing staff.
4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded.
5. The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the internship.
6. The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled to wages for the time spent in the internship.

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Mediawiki:

{{Star formation}}
In [[cosmogony]], the '''nebular hypothesis''' is the most widely
accepted model explaining the [[formation and evolution of the Solar
System]], which suggests that the Solar System formed from
[[Wiktionary:nebulous|nebulous]] material in space. There is evidence
that it was first proposed in 1734 by [[Emanuel Swedenborg]].<ref
name=Swedenborg1734/><ref name="Httpwwwnewchurchhistoryorgarticlesglbbakerpdf">
http://www.newchurchhistory.org/articles/glb2007/baker.pdf</ref>

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Sprints

• Never seen any organization try to do everything with sprints.
• Accountability is the difficult thing with an open source organization growing.
• The mission is everything. If people are lagging, just say look here’s what we’re doing and you’re keeping up or not. Don’t let other people’s contributions limit the organization.
• As we grow, people won’t want to be involved in all discussions. Ex. engineers won’t care about what’s happening in marketing.

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Pitch

• Lead with the most impressive numbers.
• In only 5 months, we’re in 11 states, touching 1300 students.
• What we’re most proud of is how we’re engaging with a diverse, broad set of students. For example, 37% minorities (7x) and 32% women (2x)

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#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

// Creates the structure Scenea
struct Scene { 
    // Constructor that passes the arguments to text and to next which sets scene_text to the value of text and next_scenes to the value of next
    Scene(std::string text, std::vector<int> const& next) { 
        scene_text = text;