It is a happy realization, though, to recognize how simple it really is.

I don't know if me saying 'Just, why?' is a good enough reason to throw my arms up and say it's an idea I'm not a fan of. I'm willing to say that it's a rather subjective attitude.

I guess my retort is that, it's far more confusing to have that syntax, then explain what it meant, when I could've just used the conventional syntax.

It's not like it's offering me something substantially simpler. For example, the spread operator that was introduced. It actually allows you to write clearer JavaScript code. This syntax isn't intuitively clear like the rest operator is.

If it proves worthwhile, it could potentially give workers an option to fight back against agreements that prevent class-action suits in the first place.

And with the economy structured as it is, we all certainly know the working class could use a win.

I understand that this function will execute when the HTTP server receives a GET or POST request at `/login`. The semantics of the decorator is clear-- I don't particularly take issue with that.

But the second my assumptions about the decorator break down (e.g., I think I've defined a decorator properly, but I have not), all bets are off on how to make it function properly. It's not as simple as going to the source code for the module and see what API's I'm calling.

Comments are tricky since they're both qualitative and might need to be scrubbed for anything personally-identifying.

That 'third option' is just an opinion about the data.

What if the feedback also said the doctor wasn't personable? Maybe the doc could be a bit warmer with his patients... and a patient would be absolutely qualified in determining whether or not that bedside manner is present.

I know they're very common.

I accidentally cut myself a little too deep while doing dishes a couple years ago (opaque, soapy water and sharp surfaces don't mix well). I couldn't get the bleeding to stop (without constant pressure held for about an hour), so I went to urgent care. I knew that I needed stitches or that "glue" they use to seal wounds. I didn't care which solution the Doctor picked, but I knew I needed something.

Students have some sense of what a generally good instructional experience looks like. It's better to collect this feedback, and have people that are experts in instruction examine the reviews, synthesize with their own knowledge of what makes instruction great, and use that information to improve.

But saying we should totally close out students since "they don't know what they need" removes a fruitful data source in determining where professors can improve.

There's genuine concerns that should be reasonably heard. One example is slowness in grading homework/exams/etc. What happens is professors get backlogged, and you have multiple homework/exams and the student missed on understanding some concept they were later graded on. If the student had regular grade updates, they would know where they needed to focus more on the course material to master it. Instead, those misunderstandings snowball and you end up doing worse on a final exam since you didn't know what course concepts you correctly understood and missed.

I agree broadly with the wholistic assessment of what American colleges have become. But the review process is still germane-- classes are the core offering of college.

We agreed to not launch the system, in exchange for limited access to the data, as I described above.

Professors en masse opposed opening up this data. That opposition alone made me feel we were doing good work. If they had to stand by their public reviews, hopefully they could stand by the quality of the instructional experience provided.

I ended up making a startup to deal with issues like this, to sell SaaS solutions directly to student governance groups, rather than to institutions. Both control fairly significant budgets (student governance groups at mid-to-large sized institutions have 6/7 figure budgets to easily afford enterprise pricing). My platforms are student-first. It's more a passion project than trying to get me Zuckerberg levels of wealth.

Regarding professors wanting to keep review data tightly sealed: in my view, if you can't by public disclosure of your evaluation, then you either don't feel you're meeting expectations, or have no desire to improve in areas where students feel improvement could be made.

Also, the biases pointed out in these reviews aren't unique to academia. Gender and age biases exist everywhere. This article sounds like it's just pushing the idea that students should have less influence in the hiring and promotion decisions of professors. You know, the very people that the teachers first and foremost serve at a university.

Working really hard can take a serious toll on you. Not quite in the same way that common midlife stressors can pull you in 20 different directions (kids, aging parents, etc). But in the moment, the stressors are very real to the individual.

I like the ability to charge my phone and listen to music simultaneously, without having to worry about my headphones also dying. Usually this is in a travel scenario.

An adapter is less convenient to use than having the Headphone jack on the device.

Is it really that farfetched to think they removed the Headphone jack to increase profits? Clearly, I'm arguing for it, but if this absolutely out there, I'd like to be brought back more sensible thought processes.

Not even the included earbuds with an iPhone purchase come with a 3.5mm jack. It's Apple's proprietary port, so you can only use Apple's wired earbuds with Apple products.

The headphone jack removal wasn't comparable to past deprecations, like removing the CD drive from laptops -- which provided a significant new amount of space in the chassis.