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by arikrak 12y ago
Udemy was able to get teachers to use their platform by sharing most of the revenue with them, but once they had a large platform, they cut the revenue sharing dramatically. It's very hard for competitors to take on a dominant platform
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by arikrak 12y ago
Nice game. I think lots of concepts can be taught with these types of games. A physics quibble - should the raptor be able to stop instantaneously, even when moving right near the speed of light? Shouldn't slowing down happen over time
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by arikrak 12y ago
What laws are being circumvented? Observant Jews could always re-heat food on the Sabbath, this just lets them do it with modern ovens. The Sabbath mode lets them set how long the oven stays on over Sabbath.
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by arikrak 12y ago
That was their original plans for the shuttle. Not saying they won't be able to save money this time, but it's never that simple.
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by arikrak 12y ago
Right. Anything that a human can solve by following simple mechanical steps can be easily done by a computer. (See Turing's definition of computability.) Many people now are just following simple mechanical steps without understanding.
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by arikrak 12y ago
The reason there's little point in memorizing these formulas is that it's easier to use a computer. If you don't understand it anyways, why not just plug it into a computer? How is it plugging it into a paper formula any bett
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by arikrak 12y ago
Techstars published an official list of their companies status: http://www.techstars.com/companies/all/
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by arikrak 12y ago
Doesn't help the investors though, unless they pay a dividend.
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by arikrak 12y ago
That could be the next part "machines that are able to learn on the job", but that's not "code that debugs and rewrites itself".
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by arikrak 12y ago
You should probably consult with a lawyer.
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by arikrak 12y ago
These job sites pop up frequently (each with a small twist) and they get developers to hand over their emails. But I'm not sure how well they succeed in getting good companies to pay for their service afterwards. It's an area I&#x
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by arikrak 12y ago
Whether math papers do this or not, educational material such as textbooks definitely should. They should go beyond that and connect formulas with visual representations too. (I lightly experimented with this for my site https:/&#x2F
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by arikrak 12y ago
Here are my extensions: Lastpass, Adblock, Pocket, Tab scissors, Email all tabs...
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by arikrak 12y ago
Here's the progress of educational tools: - Lectures - Textbooks - Lecture videos - Interactive tutorials It would be great to move beyond videos and build courses around 'explorable explanations' and othe
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by arikrak 12y ago
If Google is promoting TypeScript, can they still promote Dart? How many alt-javascript's can one company promote?
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by arikrak 12y ago
I used Mailchimp until I had 4,000 subscribers, and then I switched to my own service, but used their cheap Mandrill service for the actual email sending.
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by arikrak 12y ago
If you don't need the C++ performance, my guess is it makes more sense to go with Unity and use their C# version.
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by arikrak 12y ago
Gotta love the passive run-on sentence they start the article with: > Just over a week ago, the Superfish visual discovery software preloaded onto Lenovo consumer notebooks beginning in September 2014 created concern and frustration amon
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by arikrak 12y ago
Yes, the book would be better if it had been edited down to 350 pages (from 500).
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Ruby on Rails as a Physical Machine(theautomatedstore.com)
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by arikrak 12y ago
Criminals often sell stolen credit card numbers to other people willing to risk buying things with them.
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Comparison of Popular Programming Languages(learneroo.com)
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Real Web Development for Entrepreneurs(learneroo.com)
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Web App Framework vs. CMS vs. Website Builder(learneroo.com)
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Abstraction Programming and Education(learneroo.com)
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by arikrak 12y ago
1. There's no chance of a completely different mobile OS succeeding at any point in the near future. An OS needs a huge platform of partners to work, even Blackberry and Microsoft haven't succeeded. The only chance is a fork of An
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by arikrak 12y ago
That's something, even more than the US government spent on the Obamacare website.
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Quick Guide to the Layers of Web Development(learneroo.com)
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Show HN: Kickstarter for Visual and Interactive Ruby on Rails Course(kickstarter.com)
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Zero Dark Cavity(newyorker.com)
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