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In light of how embattled Jackson was by the media and forgotten by the public until recently, it's interesting to see how his death has changed the discussion - words like 'freak' and 'pedophile' replaced with 'genius' and 'work ethic'.
I'd like to see a similar study conducted on frequenters of HN and Reddit. If the study is correct, there should be a correlation between grumpiness and higher karma on these sites too.
Why do you believe Blackboard and Moodle are "behind what exists on the web today"?
Let's not pretend that 'experts' are supposed to know everything. If you went for a programming interview and were rejected because you didn't have all of the regex syntax on the tip of your tongue, would you feel the same way? I don't think it indicates a lack of knowledge or laziness. It's just an acknowledgment of the central role that Wikipedia plays in research these days combined with the ease of copy-paste functionality in word processing systems. Had the same thing happened twenty years ago with the Encyclopedia Britannica that might be a different story. But Anderson intended to rework the sections he copied and forgot to. Sloppy work, yes, but it's so easy to see how someone could make this mistake innocently.
THE buffalo FROM Buffalo WHO ARE buffaloed BY buffalo FROM Buffalo ALSO buffalo THE buffalo FROM Buffalo.