Canvas also has a setting to hide student names from people who are grading which can be enabled per-assignment and I think even now per-course (been a long time since I've done direct support and extreme use, but I still have admin powers/rights/etc as well as teach a course with it)

It isn't so much a FERPA issue as it is a copyright issue....

Never served but from what I understand the officers ranks eventually hit an "up or out" moment so there is certainly some ageism involved there as well...

Maybe they are leaving stuff out - like $10k/day/address that should be serviced?

Fellow curmudgeon here... and yeah, I mostly agree.

20-25 years ago most of us would've killed for a 1.5mb T-1 line or even a 256k frame relay connection to our house. Even my place which is somewhat rural I have 25mb down/3mb up DSL service.

Think it is a combination of the commercialization of the web, and folks who do/did graphic design work "on paper" tried to move their absolute layout control over to the web, which caused a ton of javascript and css stuff to get created that as others have noted leads to a ton of bloat when a dev wants to use one method/function/tool out of the hundreds any given library provides, and then of course that library is doing the same thing with a few other libraries, etc.

I know a few kids of very rich very smart people who couldn't make it in a community college, much less any place with a competitive admissions process. Not trying to put you or your kids down, but did they make the academic cut or were there some other (probably not given) reasons?

Depends on what a "dev manager" does. We have a similarly named position - "dev coordinator" - and that person's job is to deal with the users, works up some/most of the specs and creates and assigns the work item/ticket. They are also responsible for dealing with QA and user-testing and all the user meetings, etc. - leaving us "just devs" to happily code away with minimal meetings etc.

I used to create accounts in our course management system (a community college) for students at a local state university to take remedial Reading and Writing courses. As a general rule, football players and basket ball players were about half the accounts, with foreign students from various parts of Asia (India, China mostly) making up the rest. About 120 accounts per fall term, university student body was about 45k ...

Sure. But to expand 5x ?

Assuming intake is about the same as output, and assuming that the physical facilities (classrooms, etc) and other resources (instructors, janitors, advisors, etc) are all relatively booked as things are, to increase incoming class size by 5x there will be a bunch of university-specific support/infrastructure increases needed and then a bunch more similar in the surrounding communities (all those new students and staff need places to live, etc too!). Even if you changed classes to be 24/7 in 3 shifts the housing, etc. would still be an issue (well, I guess the adjunct instructors and grad students could hot bunk like on a Navy ship) and then your incoming class could be 6k instead of 2k... still leaving 4k out.

There were a series of posts about people trying to get the source code for the breath analyzer machines for DUI cases about 15 years ago.... Same thing.

Not always. I know our students get a license for most everything from Microsoft that is valid as long as they are our "active" students (2 major terms in a row not being registered, summer term isn't considered major just fall and spring).

I also know I've looked into various other software packages for lab use and most of the vendors I communicated with indicated they'd give student free licenses for home use if we had a lab full of licensed installs (this was for some CAD/CAM stuff, etc).

Or at least the season dates and allowable methods of take....

To be fair, if some ad was offering a decent scalding tub, maybe some heavy duty heavy metal scrapers, a few sets of long gloves, a bone saw, some good sharp knives, maybe a grinder etc. at a good price I'd be interested and know quite a few others who would be too...

(if you've never dealt with a pig-on-the-hoof to make it into a pig-on-the-smoker, you scald the skin and then scrap the hair and top layer of skin off with a cinder block or other handy appropriate tool)

localhost.localdomain used to be the default FQDN for several Linux distro installers....