Based on those profiles, Coderwall determines what technical skills you have, and awards badges, which it calls Achievements, based on those skills.
Starting today, streamers will see a new page on their Dashboard called "Achievements" that displays progress bars under each milestone that has to be hit before applying to either the Affiliate or Partner Program.
Sadly, the software teams weren't quite as committed to brutality as the hardware teams, and the 360's other big feature when it wasn't burping smoke and setting fire to your housemates was something called "Achievements".
When I'm in Stroud, seeing people who would slip under the radar, who aren't going to make a load of money, or achieve on the level that we call achievement, I find that moving.
The children who played the game in the riskiest manner, who stood so far from the pole that success was unlikely, also scored lowest on what he called "achievement motive," that is, the desire to succeed.
If fame is a reputation earned by achievement, and celebrity is just the fame of being famous, as Daniel Boorstin once suggested, what do you call achievement without much fame or any celebrity?
A further variant of preferentialism might be called achievement preferentialism.
The revenue the practice earns varies linearly between lower and upper thresholds of coverage, called "achievement" A∈[0,1].
When Dr. Atkinson made his landmark speech last year calling for achievement rather than aptitude tests, many at ACT were gleeful.
He also questioned the motives of someone eager to report the surprise in a creative work, whether on a personal blog or a collaborative project like Wikipedia — calling the achievement, at best, "a momentary sense of superiority".
