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behnamohyesterday at 6:44 PM6 repliesview on HN

Tell me you're not a programmer w/o telling me. What works at scale can be fundamentally different than what works in a small startup (Denmark).


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halperteryesterday at 6:51 PM

Could you point out a reason why education, which can be standardized at least to a state scale¹, cannot be standardized to the state scale utilizing oral defenses? Also, can be ≠ is. Not everything is a startup lol

¹https://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/

toad_tyrrantyesterday at 6:56 PM

You said it can be fundamentally different, and of course it can. But “it doesn’t scale” isn’t an argument by itself. In many areas, scale actually creates efficiencies. You’d need to explain what specifically about the larger scale makes the Danish approach unworkable in the U.S

flaunf221yesterday at 7:01 PM

If in person exams are seemingly impossible in US due to scale, we have to conclude that before internet US had no education?

consensus1yesterday at 7:18 PM

For parallelizable workloads it scales just fine, and giving exams is perfectly parallelizable. Any good programmer would know that.