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by dget 14y ago
New York, NY. Fulltime. Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact w
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A Skeptic's CoffeeScript Experience(tech.lore.com)
7 points by dget 14y ago|0 comments
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Coursekit Raises $5 Million to Reinvent the Classroom(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
7 points by dget 15y ago|0 comments
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by dget 15y ago
New York, NY Coursekit - Software Engineer Coursekit is looking for more engineers to help bring the best possible online experience to education. If you've ever been forced to use a crappy piece of software because your teacher (or worse,
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Before Recruiting in Ivy League, Applying Some Math(nytimes.com)
45 points by dget 15y ago|4 comments
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by dget 15y ago
New York, NY Coursekit ( http://coursekit.com/ ) is trying to bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it. We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education wo
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by dget 15y ago
Oops - accidentally submitted link to the second page. For the first page, go here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/11/29/will-cours...
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Will Coursekit Launch Up-End Blackboard?(forbes.com)
34 points by dget 15y ago|21 comments
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by dget 15y ago
New York, NY Coursekit ( http://coursekit.com/ ) is trying to bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it. We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education wo
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by dget 15y ago
New York, NY Coursekit is trying to kill an entrenched incumbent ( http://blackboard.com/ ) and bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it. We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team
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by dget 15y ago
I used it for a while. Indentation would always break in really awkward ways.
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by dget 15y ago
I <3 emacs, but there's not really a reasonable PHP mode for it that handles interspersed HTML well.
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by dget 15y ago
I think your last sentence is painfully false. I don't think most people are OK with CEOs dodging taxes. I also don't think they have the slightest clue (I sure don't..) of what to do with it. These things are decided in the details (capita
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by dget 15y ago
Figuring out how to use mTurk, figuring out how to ask questions to get useful results, and tabulating/summarizing answers are all things that the person who is asking for the tests probably has more important things to do, particularly the
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by dget 15y ago
New York, NY Coursekit is trying to kill an entrenched incumbent ( http://blackboard.com/ ) and bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it. We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team
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by dget 15y ago
I think a big part of the issue is that a person's Gmail is treated as something much more personal than a TV ad or anything else. I think this is the piece that people blasting complaints as "too sensitive" are missing. To have a unremovab
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Making POST Requests in Node(dget.tumblr.com)
1 points by dget 15y ago|0 comments
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by dget 15y ago
Something that seems similar is hackNY ( http://hackny.org ) in New York.
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Staying on Focus With a Post-Mortem(dget.tumblr.com)
1 points by dget 15y ago|0 comments
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by dget 15y ago
In his talk, he referred to the Kindle nearly exclusively as the "Amazon Swindle," only clarifying that he was talking about the Kindle at the end, for what its' worth.
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by dget 15y ago
It seems that he's become less practical and more radical over time, though. When asked, he doesn't program very much any more, devoting his time instead to championing free software in an idea that some (such as Alexey) would argue isn't p
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Learning is Immersion(dget.tumblr.com)
2 points by dget 16y ago|0 comments
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by dget 16y ago
I've been working on something pretty similar at my school, and I think we've had some pretty good results so far. I think the first step is to find the students who really are interested in programming/hacker culture/whatever you call it,
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by dget 16y ago
>>> Face the "evil" (whatever that means) side like a man. What? It's not a battle or a problem. Sometimes you need to get something out, or you're writing a little throwaway bit of code. Sometimes that involves a tradeoff in fu
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by dget 16y ago
The task at hand and libraries available also affects how "hard"/"easy" a language can seem. There are many tasks where higher level languages have more facilities available to help you. Building a web app will be easier in Python than C, f
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by dget 16y ago
What experience? I know quite a few people (not the HN crowd) who are reasonably smart, but give them a newspaper editorial by itself and they'll be lost. Not 96% of people I know, but a decent amount.
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by dget 16y ago
Some people have so much fun (and ability) making art, they can make a living off of it. There's a huge overlap between art made for fun and art made for money, and taking away artists' means to make a living takes away a significant amount
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by dget 16y ago
While I agree that it asks for backlash - do we actually know what happened? It seems like the company's doing decently, so I'm not sure the students of history will have much to work off of.
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NY Startup Looking for Front-End Wiz
2 points by dget 16y ago|0 comments
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by dget 16y ago
Going off of this, it could also be the case that other languages are going up, while PHP stays steady (or grows at a lesser pace).

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