Bytes in the Margin

Just read this in an RFP, what do you think it means?

This has to be the dumbest policy to come along in a while. Besides a fundamental misunderstanding of how grades are assigned (hint: its not a random number between 0 and 100), it minimizes a teacher's input and leeway into how to grade students.
When I was a TA, granted these were college students, the only reason...

I've been staying up pretty late again, working on my various websites and geeking out, usually past 1am.  A lot of nights, I'll listen to the stream from the DC NPR affiliate, WAMU.  Unfortunately, at 1AM they broadcast the show Fair Game, which aspires to be a funny, Progressive take on the days events.  What's sadder ...

Why do newbies like to tightly couple systems to the point that a simple change is very likely to result in everything breaking?  Is it just a lack of experience, ie not having a big system fail on you? Its a shame if failure is the only thing you learn from.  The other part of the ...

I was already going to write about how disappointed I was with TurboTax this year.  When preparing our returns, a few days ago, I submitted both my state and federal returns electronically.  My federal return failed, because TurboTax would not recognize one of the codes we'd enterred, which we verified in the IRS's own instructions for ...