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by jmatt 15y ago
I know a number of teachers and administrators, and caterping's comments ring true. It sums up what I hear over and over. At this point it comes down to what is the low hanging fruit? Of these problems what are the easiest (and/or best valu
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by jmatt 15y ago
I agree. I recommend "A Mathematician’s Lament" by Paul Lockhart. It's an excellent essay on math education. The entire paper is long but even the first 5 pages are great. It covers everything from the unacknowledged creativity that is invo
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by jmatt 15y ago
I generally support not displaying points on comments. But I did run into a case where it would be useful to have some sort of feedback on a series of comments (even if it's just dots or some other non numerical indicator). I was reading a
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by jmatt 15y ago
Check out Imagine K12[1]. It was recently on HN[2]. [1] http://www.imaginek12.com/index.html [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337362
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by jmatt 16y ago
I have seen a good hack to get around this problem. At the end of the article add a link "Discuss this on Hacker News" linking to your submission of the article here. Then you can just tweet your article directly and all the HN'ers will cli
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by jmatt 16y ago
Make voting transparent. Provide access to who has voted a comment up or down. The community will act differently if they know others can see their behavior. Then again this may have negative effects. I think that in general I'd be more tho
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by jmatt 16y ago
And according to real time tracking, it's about to fly over Libya: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=37375 No surprise that the US is flying it's secret space spy plane over the country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_L.
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by jmatt 16y ago
One way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost:<ssh tunnel port>: http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne... This is a decent example. I've s
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by jmatt 16y ago
I agree. It's horrible and it directly affects health and disease. I don't know how to quantify that, at least with respect to this discussion. I was replying specifically to the parent comment and whether intentional injuries were skewing
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by jmatt 16y ago
According to the WHO information it appears that deaths due to intentional injuries are relatively low in comparison to most other forms of disease and illness in Afghanistan: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimate...
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by jmatt 16y ago
Go look at all the complaining from when the iPhone original was announced and came out. It didn't have a number of features that were considered at the time required: The original release of the operating system included Visual Voicemail,
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by jmatt 16y ago
I think it's bold of Amazon to launch essentially a minimum viable product and beat Apple to the punch. Now they have customers and are getting meaningful feedback to make future improvements. You rarely see this outside of Apple and startu
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by jmatt 16y ago
Yeah I was expecting that. Something that was more or less a drop-in replacement for Dropbox. Plus the bonus of streaming with Cloud Player. No doubt Amazon wanted to get it out there in the hands of customers and beat Apple and the WWDC. A
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by jmatt 16y ago
Just that I don't listen to many of bands/artists that put their songs on Amazon MP3 may make this offer less appealing. I don't know much about this but cdbaby[1] will do that for what seems like an affordable price. It just takes a bit
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FANPERV - someone who Fails to Appreciate the Newbie's PERspectiVe.(groups.google.com)
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by jmatt 16y ago
"This was also the case with almost 97%" So about the other 3%? I can't help but wonder... what it sounds like and whether there is a perceived difference.
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by jmatt 16y ago
I like this idea. As someone who has built a number of small business websites in the past, I could see using a lg.cx link. Some comments: Permanence is always a concern with url shorteners. Especially for small business websites where I'll
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by jmatt 16y ago
I would have been interested in everyone's use of Nootropics[1]. I've taken and had productive, beneficial experiences with Modafinil and some Amphetamines. Though I am reticent to recommend use or talk about it much (likely my own DARE to
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by jmatt 16y ago
It's getting to be difficult to avoid sites that are affiliated or offer Facebook*. Even ycombinator (and indirectly Hacker News) is guilty of being loosely affiliated with Facebook. http://ycombinator.posterous.com/facebook-to-begin-givin
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by jmatt 16y ago
It seems to be a valid alternative: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chomp_at_the_bit
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by jmatt 16y ago
Off topic but ... Welcome to HN!
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by jmatt 16y ago
The "buy the album" link doesn't work on windows 7 / firefox 3.6.13 I went to buy the album, or at least see what the price was, and the link sent me to http://normativedesign.com/#/anamanaguchi
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by jmatt 16y ago
I remember seeing Gamezer[1] on Google Trends 2010[2] and being surprised. It really struck a cord that I hadn't heard of a game/game company that was a top 10 google trend keyword. It's top regional is Palestine. [1] http://gamezer.com/
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by jmatt 16y ago
Nice. Sounds like a great reason to stay up late. The next annular solar eclipse for north america: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_20,_2012 And the next total solar eclipse for north america: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jmatt 16y ago
Stop syncing! Isn't this what bittorrent is for? Or any number of other peer-to-peer services. I mean, maybe everyone will need to verify with a MD5 or SHA. But this seems like such a 90s way of distribution. It's too bad pirating has giv
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by jmatt 16y ago
Autocomplete and debugging with clojure works. The problem is most clojure developers don't use common java IDEs. So it appears like it doesn't work or exist. But recently there has been an explosion of plugins to help everyone that isn't f
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by jmatt 16y ago
I was searching for a page and came across this. I thought I'd respond since no one else has. Hopefully this helps. A few sites come to mind that fit this idea in one way or another. http://balsamiq.com/ Balsamiq - This app was not purpos
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by jmatt 16y ago
This is only peripherally related. But since we are on the topic of Napoleon... Charles Joseph Minard created and published a flow map of "Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812"[1]. This graphic is way ahead of it's time. It provid
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by jmatt 16y ago
This is what you need to do to get it to work: 0. Use fix close quote on bit.ly redirect if you are using the parent comment... javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script")).src="http://bit.ly/google
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by jmatt 16y ago
It's created by Ronnie Roller[1] the same guy that created ihackernews[2]. ihackernews is the best way to view news.yc on a smart phone. And viewtext is incorporated there to ensure that pages are readable. I've had very good experiences wi

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