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Khan Academy videos in Portuguese(khanacademy.org)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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More Videos in More Languages(dylanv.org)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Actually, SSE is a better fit here: it works in many more browsers than WebSockets when you count the existence of SSE polyfills, and you don't need the bidirectionality of WebSockets here.
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Khan Academy - Reverse Engineering(khanacademy.org)
3 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
This was my first real encounter with BrowserID, and I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the experience was.
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Summer at Khan Academy(ankitahuja.com)
3 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Have you checked out http://khanacademy.org/cs ?
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by dylanvee 14y ago
We also use Hive on Amazon Elastic MapReduce to do some of our analytics.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
App Engine handles many hundreds of requests per second for us, and as Jamie mentioned, big spikes like the CS launch are no sweat.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
+1 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404568
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Upgrading App Engine Models to NDB(dylanv.org)
5 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Whether or not you use it, it's all about understanding the tradeoffs you're making. It's worked out for us :) If you want more from us about GAE, our lead developer Ben Kamens' blog is full of good stuff: http://bjk5.com
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by dylanvee 14y ago
I'm a summer intern at Khan Academy working on various App Engine projects. My uneducated guess is that we're one of the platform's bigger customers. One of GAE's biggest downsides is lack of control: unlike EC2 where you get to mold vanill
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Definitely pie. On Tau Day the Khan Academy office was graced with a wonderful tau (two pie).
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Khan Academy Computer Science: Instant Gratification and Bragging Rights(jamie-wong.com)
4 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
What a beautiful moment. That team has a lot to be proud of.
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Khan Academy's summer 2012 interns(khanacademy.org)
2 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
I'm happy to see that many occurrences of the word "native."
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by dylanvee 14y ago
AirPlay mirroring relies on Intel Quick Sync Video support in your CPU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Chrome Web Store link: http://bit.ly/khanpedia GitHub repository: http://github.com/dylanvee/Khanpedia KA intern here. I made this extension during Khan Academy's first ever Healthy Hackathon. It's an unofficial project, but it's a fun
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Show HN: Khanpedia, integrating Khan Academy content into Wikipedia(dylanv.org)
5 points by dylanvee 14y ago|1 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
In case Heroku needs names for future stacks (Aspen, Bamboo, Cedar...), here are building names from the De Neve housing complex at UCLA: (Acacia) (Birch) (Cedar) Dogwood Evergreen Fir Gardenia Holly
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by dylanvee 14y ago
How interesting: I installed and launched the app expecting to see the standard "Log in with Facebook" screen, but instead there's a big button that says "Continue as [my name]" (and a smaller one, "Not you?"). I wonder how exactly they're
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Unfortunately I've been running into a bug with lxc-execute ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/986956 ) that prevents it from "just working" with interactive programs such as bash or python.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
I believe the only remaining hurdle for full isolation is user namespacing, which is slated to be implemented by the next LTS release.
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LXC in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS(stgraber.org)
89 points by dylanvee 14y ago|34 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
I applied to a bunch of software engineering internships last fall and was amazed by the variation from company to company in terms of how I was dealt with as an intern candidate.
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Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz(pandodaily.com)
187 points by dylanvee 14y ago|124 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Half Maltese here too!
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How we built Classyfy in 24 hours to win the Facebook UCLA Hackathon(dylanv.org)
2 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments

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