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by andymatuschak 8y ago
This is helpful feedback; thank you!
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by andymatuschak 8y ago
Very glad you're enjoying that! While we've explored some of the possibilities in this space in the essays here, it does feel early to standardize: lots we're still excited to explore in purpose-built contexts first. :)
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by andymatuschak 8y ago
One of the authors here. While the study schedule is regulated by algorithm, the questions themselves were hand written. We have found it’s quite difficult to write good questions, needs lots of revision and thought. Glad you enjoyed!
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Capstone, a tablet for thinking(inkandswitch.com)
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Understanding AttnGAN: Text-to-Image convertor(medium.com)
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by andymatuschak 9y ago
> Or a free app that is just done as a thank you to the community that has supported them over the years? What would be wrong with this? That would be a very expensive thank you for a tiny business! Given Panic's level of polish and
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by andymatuschak 9y ago
Khan Academy | Mountain View | Full-time At Khan Academy, we’re building an early product development team which will explore and propose solutions to big open problems in education. We’re looking for a couple new prototyping-and-invention
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Successful habits through smoothly ratcheting targets (2017)(blog.andymatuschak.org)
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by andymatuschak 9y ago
Khan Academy | Mountain View | Full-time At Khan Academy, we’re building an early product development team which will explore and propose solutions to big open problems in education. We’re looking for a couple new prototyping-and-invention
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Sketching Interfaces(airbnb.design)
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Playful worlds of creative math: a design exploration(khanacademy.org)
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Numbers at play: dynamic toys make the invisible visible(khanacademy.org)
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by andymatuschak 9y ago
These are both wonderful pieces of news! Thanks for sharing.
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by andymatuschak 9y ago
One other big contributor to app size we've noticed at Khan Academy: extensive use of value types, particularly ones whose fields require more than a couple words of storage. The big picture observation is that for value types with sto
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Satisfaction and progress in open-ended work(blog.andymatuschak.org)
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by andymatuschak 10y ago
Historically, one of the key dangers with using unprefixed names has been that future system updates add new classes which collide. Testing at dev-time won't future-proof you very well.
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Exalting data, missing meaning(blog.andymatuschak.org)
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by andymatuschak 11y ago
The non-interactive content should mostly work in the iPad app. iPhone is trickier. This is a tough area for us in general, unfortunately.
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by andymatuschak 12y ago
We've been pretty insistent on colocation for internships in particular, just because we think synchronous and serendipitous interactions are really important in these kind of apprenticeships. But I'd love to be wrong and discover
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by andymatuschak 12y ago
We're serious about intern mentorship: http://bjk5.com/post/23266999170/how-intern-mentorship-works... If you're an iOS dev who wants to be mentored for a few months by a former UIKit author, hit me up.
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by andymatuschak 12y ago
Ah; sorry, I was referring to Khan Academy specifically.
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by andymatuschak 12y ago
Anyone can apply for an internship; you can think of it as a paid, fixed-duration, apprentice-like position.
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A Warm Welcome to Structs and Value Types(objc.io)
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by andymatuschak 12y ago
Good point. http://life.khanacademy.org/post/87602482963/a-mobile-dev-se...
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Show HN: §, an interactive toy I built to accept my offer from Khan Academy(github.com)
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by andymatuschak 12y ago
I really enjoyed Gary Bernhardt's response to this discussion: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2014/test-isolation-... You should read the whole article, but to motivate: > This post was triggered
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by andymatuschak 13y ago
> Moreover, the experience can be completely asynchronous. You don't have to both be available to make progress. Studying SICP (or anything) can involve different "modes": Reading and doing exercises will often be solitary
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The Crossroads of Should and Must(medium.com)
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Blinded by "how"(blog.andymatuschak.org)
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Applied Discovery: Presentation from Build 2013(irondavy.quora.com)
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