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by arikrak 12y ago
Site's down now, but the title sounds cool.
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by arikrak 12y ago
Cool, it's a good way to teach people about gravity. Most people don't know the basic idea of how falling and orbiting are connected. I once made a simple 'game' for this purpose: https://www.learneroo.com&#x2
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by arikrak 12y ago
You should let people type their location and maybe their job as well.
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by arikrak 12y ago
In Github-flavored markdown, the spacing is optional. So it's actually easier to edit than an HTML table. Though a WYSIWYG editor is still beneficial for these kind of things. https://help.github.com/articles/githu
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by arikrak 12y ago
I determined it was an issue with an extension I had (ColumnCopy). I think Google should help prevent these weird bugs caused by extensions.
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by arikrak 12y ago
It's probably something with my browser, but a weird line appears on your page, which I haven't seen anywhere else. http://awesomescreenshot.com/0753f9w38b (I'm on Chrome 37 on Mac 10.9)
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by arikrak 12y ago
No person would ever willingly choose the TI calculator to learn or apply math, but they need them for school. It's a similar issue for textbooks, where the publishers can charge very high amounts, since the buyers (students) don'
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by arikrak 12y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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by arikrak 12y ago
The animations are cool and helpful. How were they created?
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by arikrak 12y ago
The last paragraph of the article basically says that, but the title needs to get people to click.
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by arikrak 12y ago
I learned Rails with this tutorial (for Rails 3), which was good, but I thought it covered too much testing which is a bit overwhelming for someone starting off. Its everything-at-once approach also made it harder to reference topics afterw
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by arikrak 12y ago
To learn something well you need to practice it and can't just copy and paste. I think that copying-and-pasting by typing isn't that much better though. It would be better to solve challenges and the like so that you really need t
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by arikrak 12y ago
Books seem like an old-fashioned way to teach programming. Wouldn't it make sense to create more interactive content so readers/users can try out the code as they go along? I think this is definitely true for beginners learning pr
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by arikrak 12y ago
I always thought learning should be more modular, which is why I broke down educational content on my site into modules. https://www.learneroo.com/modules (Some people were confused by it though.)
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It's Time to Take Artificial Intelligence Seriously(online.wsj.com)
4 points by arikrak 12y ago|0 comments
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How an Entrepreneur's Passion Can Destroy a Startup(online.wsj.com)
6 points by arikrak 12y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 12y ago
Hour of Code used Google Blockly to teach kids the very basics of programming: http://learn.code.org/hoc/1 It would be interesting to create a full course to teach anyone all the fundamentals of programming without any
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by arikrak 12y ago
See also yesterday's link on Syntax directed editing: http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/an_editor_for_composed_...
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Lessons from my Failed Kickstarter Project(learneroo.com)
1 points by arikrak 12y ago|0 comments
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A virtual shrink may sometimes be better than the real thing(economist.com)
40 points by arikrak 12y ago|42 comments
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by arikrak 12y ago
Right, actually I created one as well.
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by arikrak 12y ago
I created http://www.learneroo.com which lets people solve programming challenges (and other challenges) online. It's not currently open-source, though if there was interest I would consider open-sourcing it. (I would first
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by arikrak 12y ago
Anyone interested in creating an open source version? It could have more features - such as running the code online, and more topics - such as non-math challenges.
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by arikrak 12y ago
97% is pretty high, but I agree that it's not too likely that's the drug company's plans. Note that the government grants the drug company a monopoly to sell their drug, so it makes sense to place some limitations on pricing,
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by arikrak 12y ago
In general, regular capitalism is best for progress, since government-funded operations don't have the same incentive to succeed, to avoid waste, etc. However, for something like developing drugs, it may be worthwhile to have more gove
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by arikrak 12y ago
They should connect this to https://sandstorm.io/
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by arikrak 12y ago
After you buy an SSL certificate, Heroku charges $20/month to use it. You can circumvent this with Cloudflare, but they also charge $20/month for SSL. Is there any easy way to use SSL on Heroku for $0-5 / month? (See http:&#
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by arikrak 12y ago
How does this compare to http://processingjs.org/ ?
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Computer+Programming+Is+a+Trade%3B+Let%...
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Computer Programming Is a Trade; Let's Act Like It(online.wsj.com)
2 points by arikrak 12y ago|2 comments

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