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by kalid 18y ago
Completely agree. My writing and thought process has improved a ton since I've been blogging. Even better, you get a chance to interact with people and discuss a deep thought more than a twitter message.
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by kalid 18y ago
Thanks -- really glad you're finding it useful. Yeah, don't mind the self references if there's meta discussions people want to have :)
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by kalid 18y ago
Beats me -- isn't it a slow news week? :) I was really happy to see this at the top. I think it may be because we're both YC alum and some articles from betterexplained have been well received here in the past. But also, I hope, the need to
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by kalid 18y ago
Hi Brett, thanks for posting and for setting up slinkset. I'm hoping to tap into some of the Hacker News wisdom in terms of sharing epiphanies :).
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by kalid 18y ago
If you find your self with directories like "v1" "oldv1" "updateD!!!" you need version control :). Subversion has GUI clients integrated into file explorers so you don't even notice the overhead. I wrote more about it here, if you'd like co
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by kalid 18y ago
Check out the work by Daniel Kahneman -- I believe he performed or referenced the study you mention. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2003/923773.ht...
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by kalid 18y ago
Agreed. FFox is way too bloated, even with "8 gazillion tricks to speed up ffox!". The only must-have extensions are Firebug and Web Dev Toolbar, so I keep firefox around for debugging purposes. For everyday browsing it's chrome all the way
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by kalid 18y ago
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." – Albert Einstein
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by kalid 18y ago
Agreed. Tip for experts exchange: just scroll to the very bottom of the page. The answers appear in plain text. (The hard way is to change your user-agent to a search crawler... they need to display the text to somebody ).
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by kalid 18y ago
Thanks Daniel! Yeah, we've noticed many bloggers running contests via email/comments. Whenever one technology is shoehorned into another, there has to be a better way :).
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by kalid 18y ago
Good question :). In Dec '07 we had some soul-searching and radically changed our idea from an API (selling tickets) to a self-contained blogging widget. We rebuilt the site and have been working with bloggers since the spring in an open be
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by kalid 18y ago
Thanks Immad :)
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by kalid 18y ago
Yes -- I'm already using chrome for my everyday browsing. The speed is just too good to ignore.
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by kalid 18y ago
I think you're overlooking the interest payments, which are gone forever as well. If you have a 300k mortgage at 6%, you are paying 18k year (1500 month) in interest alone. Yes, there are tax advantages but I think this is negated by proper
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by kalid 18y ago
If it's useful, I wrote a guide to DVCS here: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-ver... Pros: Everyone has a local sandbox, works offline, fast, great change tracking, easy branches/merges, less software setup Cons:
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by kalid 18y ago
I'm interested in online education too -- if interested, check out my blog at betterexplained.com. One problem I see with education in general is that there's plenty of content (like Wikipedia), but not enough focus on the delta that takes
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by kalid 18y ago
I second that. It's really satisfying to take a crack at these. The forums are fun too, as there's usually several approaches to a given problem.
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by kalid 18y ago
Great question, I'd like to know too. Sometimes I poke around popular open source projects, like the rails source. Here's how they implemented the syntatic sugar for things like "1.month.from_now": http://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master
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by kalid 18y ago
Hey, no prob -- I dislike me-too posts as much as the next guy :)
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by kalid 18y ago
Thanks :). I don't know what it is, but for a field concerned with abstraction people miss the forest for the trees. I try to catalog insights right as they happen, and try to capture the before-and-after: what, exactly, was the turning poi
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by kalid 18y ago
I was definitely enjoyed that essay and want to spread its message; it's why I linked to it and quoted from it :). However, I've been writing about these concepts in this way since 2001, way before I ever heard of the essay (here's my earli
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by kalid 18y ago
Good point -- C was designed to interface with hardware ("high level assembly") whereas javascript was designed to interface with web pages & browsers. Either way, the history helps understand the design decisions.
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by kalid 18y ago
That's exactly it. We show math as this complete and perfect system, whereas it was discovered, often times, through trial-and-error. Retracing the steps can help show why certain decisions were made. For example, why does C have a separate
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by kalid 18y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. I definitely believe in having rigor when needed. Concepts like calculus, unfortunately, wait until high school or college, so it's being thrown in the river without ever having swum. Sure, some people survive, bu
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by kalid 18y ago
Heh. Unfortunately, a large fraction of the students tend to die of hypothermia :).
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by kalid 18y ago
I used the term loosely. But to most people, I think y = x^2 is an "equation".
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by kalid 18y ago
Ditto. I have a giant "ideas.txt" with unfinished 1 liners, and separate files (supersecretproject.txt) with more details.
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by kalid 18y ago
Thanks for that detailed reply, I've been looking for ways to sell ads directly and that site should come in handy. Appreciate the tip!
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by kalid 19y ago
I hear you -- bookmarklets just aren't that well advertised, even though they can be pretty powerful. I use delicious, google translate, instacalc (I'm biased for that one :) ), and post-to-tumblr occasionally.
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by kalid 19y ago
Thanks, you're welcome!

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