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by kalid 15y ago
Thanks! I hadn't seen that site, appreciate the pointer. One challenge I'm seeing is making it easy enough to contribute yet organized enough to be meaningful. At the bare, bare mimimum I'm finding it useful to collect my own thoughts so I'
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by kalid 15y ago
Thanks for sharing this -- it's a MVP designed to - get nascent ideas public (personal use case) - find the best analogies/examples used to explain topics - apply these techniques to other topics It needs some iteration to narrow
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by kalid 15y ago
Excellent description, thank you for sharing it. I have a major pet peeve against the warped culture of "accountability" which really just means "find someone to blame when things go wrong". In that environment (when you aren't lavished rew
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by kalid 15y ago
forehead slap Thanks, I'll be fixing that.
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by kalid 15y ago
Hi all, thanks for attention! My passion is finding the "aha!" moments when learning. In git: - Git has a staging area before you commit - Branching is "save as..." on a directory - Imagine virtual directories inside your physical o
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by kalid 15y ago
If you are doing anything with equations, LaTeX is definitely the way to go. Unfortunately, it's a steep learning curve for regular ebooks. The downside is it's not super HTML-friendly (there are converters, but you can't display equations
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by kalid 15y ago
I'm selling an ebook on math -- more details about the process here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870015
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by kalid 15y ago
About 125-150k per month.
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by kalid 15y ago
Yes, I can't wait! [I make about $800 - $1200 / month on my blog, hoping to increase it with Antonio's help :)]
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by kalid 15y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think it's a question of disliking the regime, but people having the power/food/resources to fight back.
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by kalid 15y ago
Exactly. One of my pet peeves is the misconception that a life expectancy of 35 means a normal adult somehow drops dead at that age. (And leads to arguments like "Oh, don't eat a paleo diet, cavemen only lived to 35"). Socrates lived to 71
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by kalid 15y ago
I've self-published an ebook & screencast series on math ( http://betterexplained.com/articles/math-betterexplained-ebo... ) based on my blog content. I've written more about the numbers and process here: http://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by kalid 15y ago
Great point! That's something I didn't make clear enough in the diagram, and a 2nd misconception I had until a month ago too :). Yes, exactly as you say, the total energy is the same but the orientation and amplitude of the field differs. I
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by kalid 15y ago
I love this story because as Feynman puts it, there's a difference between knowing the name of something and really knowing it. Since we're on the topic of light -- despite going to a great school and taking several physics courses, I suffe
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by kalid 16y ago
It's not awful (Zune is holding its own against non-Apple players), but with a quick back of the envelope calculation I estimate iPods outselling zunes at least 20:1 ( http://tinyurl.com/47x4rv3 ). Nobody wants to be in 9th place :).
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by kalid 16y ago
Check out http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/1264866011/...
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by kalid 16y ago
I highly recommend Brian's visualization -- another way to see the identity is to imagine e^ix as a spiral that gets tighter and tighter as you compound more frequently (e represents infinite compounding). This formula has so many cool inte
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by kalid 16y ago
Thanks! It's my mission to share the explanations that actually worked for me :).
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by kalid 16y ago
I agree -- I'm appreciative that he's trying to explain math to a wider audience, but realistically, reading through textbook definitions at 100wpm just confuses people. (Shameless plug starting now). I think we need to focus on the intuiti
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by kalid 16y ago
Minimum Viable Product ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product )
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by kalid 16y ago
Exactly. I don't see the immediate need for color ebook reader -- when was the last time I read a color book? I see the Kindle and iPad as complements, not competitors, and I don't think straddling the middle will work.
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by kalid 16y ago
Copyblogger ( http://www.copyblogger.com/ ) is a pretty good resource.
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by kalid 16y ago
I think the main benefit of the "Hello, World!" programs isn't the action it accomplishes, but the infrastructure needed to get it up and running. It's the minimum viable program which produces something that the beginner can tell "it worke
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by kalid 16y ago
Freelancers can't rely on a steady 40h/week of billable work.
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by kalid 16y ago
Tell that to facebook ( http://i.imgur.com/9FdJa.png ) :-). The problem with bending over backwards for non-js is that you double your dev cycles (no AJAX, need regular forms for everything), lose dynamic menus (want to duplicate those?), l
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by kalid 16y ago
Congratulations Michael!
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Weight control: wear a jacket.
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by kalid 16y ago
But gadgets and cars aren't areas AOL is heavily involved in, as far as I know. How would reporting of something like AOL's search privacy leak ( http://techcrunch.com/2006/08/07/aol-this-was-a-screw-up/ ) go?
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by kalid 16y ago
I use it to write quick notes/thoughts inside the book as I'm reading -- new ideas, questions I have, follow-ups, etc (amazon stores the location of the note). It's much slower than pencil, but the benefit is that it's synced to the cloud,
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by kalid 16y ago
Unfortunately, I think test taking falls into the same trap -- drilling for memorized procedures, without necessarily really understanding the material in a meaningful way. It'd be like measuring which country has better literature by seein

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