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by hokua 15y ago
selection bias? Is KA randomly selecting these schools for their trials? Or is it a convenience sample? In that case the schools that elect to work with KA are not likely to be typical American schools.
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by hokua 15y ago
If KA wants to be a nonprofit and do good, thats great. Charity is a good thing. But dont do it as a startup. What they are doing is not revolutionary, but another resource (albiet valuable). KA does not solve the fundamental problem that s
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by hokua 15y ago
Most of good teaching is not about well delivered lectures or clearly explained examples. Cookie cutter youtube lectures are just another resource. The evidence suggests that its individualized instruction in a structured environment with c
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by hokua 15y ago
But its not an Obj-C to javascript compiler: its Objective-J, a entirely new language that is a strict superset of Javascript: pure Javascript is also valid Obj-J. You wouldnt call Objective-C an "Objective C to C compiler" since valid C is
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by hokua 15y ago
My personal favorites were Space Quest and Police Quest. Gold Rush was also fun.
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by hokua 15y ago
You can try someone out before you invest in them. Its called internships/probationary period. Lots of companies do it.
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by hokua 15y ago
Steve Jobs as Tron!
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by hokua 15y ago
With all the Steve Jobs posts, I briefly thought the "jobs" tab was a special section for Steve.
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by hokua 15y ago
Jobs left Apple right when they no longer needed him. He saved the company he founded, and now its the most valuable tech firm in the world, and will be the leader for at least the next decade.
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by hokua 15y ago
That is very sad and yet perplexing. It was only a short time earlier in July he presented the new Apple campus to the Cupertino city council. I had assumed he'd be here for that. Quite sad.
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by hokua 15y ago
Why so cautious? Are you not hiring programmers at-will? If Im not performing on par with a team, Id leave no hard feelings. The reason I applied is im highly interested in building tools for educators, and currently run a business that sel
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by hokua 15y ago
LAMP is better than .NET because I dont need to buy Windows Server licenses to get going. That is a fair statement. LAMP is better because only losers use stuff from MS. This is the sort of argument that you see alot of on the internet.
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by hokua 15y ago
I applied to Khan and they told me they have no slots to fill anymore (but thanks for trying...and feel free to contribute in your spare time). I can program in jQuery and know Django -- I sent them several demos directly related to generat
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by hokua 15y ago
j2EE != Java. J2EE is a framework. More accurate to compare J2EE and Rails. Or compare Swing to Qt. You can program in Java without J2EE and Swing (which suck). The criticism is against Java. You are adding your own qualification.
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by hokua 15y ago
Well said. A lot of people on HN (including PG) like to diss Java as some backward corporate language. The fact that you can run Lisp on the JVM (clojure) shows that such criticisms are shallow. Lisp may be superior to Blub. But if Blub has
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by hokua 15y ago
You are correct. Not as good + niche = death
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by hokua 15y ago
I have to second Patrick. I sell a Mac app to alot of teachers for $20, and sell about 100/month. While not big bucks, not bad either.