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by dangoor 6y ago
I followed essentially the same path (though I ended up working in 4GLs in the late 80s). I also have fond memories of my time working (playing!) in BASIC. That said, I like the options we have today for writing software that needs to be ma
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by dangoor 6y ago
Sign In with Apple works a lot like Sign In with Google or Facebook. There's no reason it can't be used on Android also. https://github.com/willowtreeapps/sign-in-with-apple-button-...
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by dangoor 6y ago
> I want to go back to 90's when we had healthy debates between republicans and democrats. We were one country. One voice. And people debated about issues and not about other people's clans. "Make America Great Again"
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by dangoor 6y ago
I believe Superhuman added the in app purchase.
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by dangoor 6y ago
If you select a 2 or 3 character email name when signing up, it pitches the up charge to you. Not a big deal to select longer, and personally if I use it I’ll be using my own domain name.
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by dangoor 6y ago
My biggest question when seeing this headline was "why?" > It does make sense for Dropbox to enter the password manager market, considering that many existing passwords already use Dropbox as a cloud option to sync data between
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by dangoor 6y ago
I don't know if you're intending those questions about independent commissions to be figurative. People have thought about this and, in Michigan, we voted such a commission in: https://votersnotpoliticians.com/redi
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by dangoor 6y ago
Yeah, I'm sure that if we needed to serve more videos through our "fallback player", we'd investigate more cost effective ways to run it. With thousands of videos, it'd be a pain to move … but at least that would be
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by dangoor 6y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think I've seen this publicly reported and I'm not in a position to decide to make that public. I will say that the amount we pay for our infrastructure, especially right now, is reduced by generous sup
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by dangoor 6y ago
There's a lot going on in your observation, and this is all speculation on my part (even though I am a Khan Academy employee). We did have quite a bit of usage and awareness among schools already before the shutdowns started. Couple th
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by dangoor 6y ago
This question is not uncommon, so I really should write a blog post I can refer to. I've got another comment in this thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23171877
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by dangoor 6y ago
Khan Academy today supports serving video outside of YouTube, which is blocked in some schools. We could essentially flip a switch to not use YouTube, but the cost would be substantial because those videos go Fastly->S3, so anything not
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by dangoor 6y ago
I need to write a blog post about this :) A lot of people seem to think of Khan Academy as a bunch of videos. Many have also seen the exercises and articles. Those things are all pretty static (though it gets more complex when you conside
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by dangoor 6y ago
As an extreme, can you imagine if Facebook doubled its usage in a week? It depends on what the site does and what floor it's starting from. We (Khan Academy) are certainly not at Facebook's scale, but we do run a site with a lot o
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by dangoor 6y ago
It seems odd to me that there are no videos accompanying this press release, and there also don't appear to be any videos in the Mac app store. It seems like video (with audio!) would be a much better way to show off what this new vers
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by dangoor 6y ago
Yeah, that's weird. If I had to guess, that's some sort of computational blur (like Apple's Portrait Mode, but who knows which implementation. Maybe the photo still has EXIF data to tell what the camera was.)
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Khan Academy Successfully Handled 2.5x Traffic in a Week(engineering.khanacademy.org)
4 points by dangoor 6y ago|1 comments
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by dangoor 6y ago
I haven't tried using USB drives with the iPad, but they have been building out the Files app and there are more ways to work with external storage than before. Loading software from outside the App Store is not going to happen, but th
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by dangoor 6y ago
Khan Academy | Mountain View, CA | Onsite or Remote (US/Canada) | Senior Backend or Fullstack Engineer | https://www.khanacademy.org/careers Many people know us from our free educational videos (available on our site a
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by dangoor 6y ago
I think the point of contact tracing is not that it's a silver bullet used alone, but rather a piece used alongside more widespread testing to help lower the rate of transmission. It may be reasonable to argue that these tracing apps a
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by dangoor 6y ago
What constitutes "major"? I'm pretty sure there are lots of orgs using Go. There are several on the front page of go.dev: https://go.dev
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by dangoor 6y ago
Odds are that very few people would notice it (the "obscurity" part). If it's a requirement that such features absolutely cannot be invoke by end users in advance of release, it seems like you could always use access control
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by dangoor 6y ago
Khan Academy has a monorepo in git. With 10 years of history in it, it's not always pleasant but does come with some advantages.
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by dangoor 6y ago
Alas(?), the blink tag is dead: https://caniuse.com/#search=blink
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by dangoor 6y ago
It was very long, but it wasn't all an advertisement. He spent a good deal of time talking about the potential prospects of the app, issues it may encounter (even with some suggestions), and similar apps that have come up in the past t
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by dangoor 6y ago
That's all true. I think the advantages to a server-based app are 1. available from any device, 2. able to operate on your behalf at any time There's a reasonable place for both. Getting data and operating on it is a pretty fundam
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by dangoor 6y ago
Cool! I think there are a lot of ease-of-use aspects to this being a desktop app instead of a webapp requiring deployment.
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by dangoor 6y ago
Does this pull data from the internet? That seems like a fundamental feature of Pipes.
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by dangoor 7y ago
Yeah, thanks! I'm totally on board with this link being here and would love for more people to learn about Dat.
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by dangoor 7y ago
> This mentality that things either flip instantly to mass adoption or are "old" needs to die. That's honestly not where I'm coming from, though. I think Dat is a cool project and I've been aware of it from, like

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