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by dnquark 14y ago
The new crop of online courses is awesome, but what's even more awesome is imagining how much they can (and will) improve in the next few years. Coursera's current production quality, style, and platform leaves much to be desired. Andrew an
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by dnquark 14y ago
I believe that in the next few years, we will see many professors bringing their courses online, and this will hopefully result in significant improvement in the way the material is presented. Even dry material can be made substantially mo
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by dnquark 15y ago
Author of the article here; never thought I'd be posting HN-worthy content, otherwise I would've picked something other than a very wimpy (but cheap) Xen VPS host (which I can't even SSH into at the moment)... For Emacs users, here's the a
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by dnquark 15y ago
One of the best things that happened to Emacs in recent years, IMO, is the Evil project (see my blog post for an Emacs user's perspective on it: http://dnquark.com/blog/2012/02/emacs-evil-ecumenicalism/ ) -- now you don't have to choose be
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by dnquark 15y ago
That hasn't been my experience (I've been using a tablet PC for the last 3 years). With a precise digitizer and good software, stylus-on-screen writing isn't very different from that of pencil on paper. The convenience of permanence/edita
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by dnquark 15y ago
The lack of adoption of stylus-based input is very disappointing. I'm always floating in random scraps of paper with notes, derivations, etc. I've always found note-taking, especially when math is involved, much more natural with a pen th