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by jlaurend 14y ago
Sure, but I'm not talking about how effective his teaching is. I'm simply addressing the technical definition of slope. I am perfectly fine with Khan teaching it as "rise/run". I thought criticizing this was silly on Karim's part. But then
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by jlaurend 14y ago
Usually when you talk about slope we're assuming "slope of a line". In that case, Khan's definition is fine. If you're trying to really rigorously define "slope", which is fairly silly since you should just start using the term "gradient" w
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by jlaurend 15y ago
True, but the original question was not "what is the worst programming language" but rather "what is the most disliked". So I do believe we'll get the results that you've predicted (you should add PHP to the list) but at least we're answeri
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by jlaurend 15y ago
"Router" as in URL routing. Here's an example from his page: $app->route('/pork', function($app) { return "Delicious pork."; });
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by jlaurend 15y ago
This tends to be the style of thinking at MIT, i.e. oh these are undergrads with a bunch of time, they should be able to do learn everything really well, thoroughly, and from the ground up! The end result is a bunch of classes that pack a
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by jlaurend 15y ago
I've certainly heard it and used it many times. When asking "what year are you?" over the summer it's vague to just say "sophomore" or "junior" and long-winded to say "I will be a sophomore in the fall".
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by jlaurend 15y ago
There are certainly benefits to having everyone upgrade at the same time, though. From a technical standpoint, it seems better to have everyone on the same setup so that you only have to deal with the same set of problems. You might also
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by jlaurend 16y ago
This is a slight divergence, but do people actually find Kuler useful (it's listed there which is why I'm reminded of it)?
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by jlaurend 16y ago
Ah, the article should have mentioned that you don't get the gift certificates immediately. That means LivingSocial's not completely screwed just yet. Nonetheless, not having server-side validation built-in indicates pretty bad practice.
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by jlaurend 16y ago
Can you link to the specific article? I couldn't find it on the BBC site. I found this however: http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/news/facebook-uturns-on-data-...
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by jlaurend 16y ago
The Art of Problem Solving has a page of cool little applets: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/articles.php?pa...