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Khan Academy Gets Rare Partnership To Close Wealth Gap In College Test Prep(techcrunch.com)
4 points by kamens 13y ago|0 comments
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by kamens 13y ago
Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility) We're a small, non-profit tech startup trying to give a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We're making a big mobile push and need
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by kamens 13y ago
Appreciate you trying to share info, but this does not come close to fully solving the problems listed above.
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by kamens 13y ago
I've experimented with multiple CGMs and have been plagued with severe accuracy issues. I know this isn't the case for all people, but I found myself constantly recalibrating the CGM only to be given readings that were — no joke —
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by kamens 13y ago
Would immediately — and significantly — improve my life. Crossing my fingers very hard. Want this to be reality.
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by kamens 13y ago
I respect your skepticism, but that's not what happens in practice on our 25+ person team.
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by kamens 13y ago
The entire thing is opt-in. Nobody is subscribed to anything by default — if you want to listen in on the mobile team's archive, you can. But you don't have to. This reduces inbox noise because it increases the percentage of email
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by kamens 13y ago
Interesting idea. May poke around w/ this.
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by kamens 13y ago
We have given internships to high schoolers in the past -- spicyj here started as an intern right out of high school and now has his hands in everything we do as a full-timer. Remote internships have been done in the past too, but we strong
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My Next Adventure: Khan Academy CS (Pamela Fox joins KA)(blog.pamelafox.org)
2 points by kamens 13y ago|0 comments
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by kamens 13y ago
Another Ben from Khan Academy here! I'd like to also emphasize how much we lean on our community. Khan Academy's goal is not to be perfect, but to iterate towards perfection — it'd be impossible to do that across such a broad
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The App Engine Way(bjk5.com)
2 points by kamens 13y ago|0 comments
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Khanacademy.org gets a makeover, bug fixes, and UX improvements(shipordie.com)
2 points by kamens 14y ago|0 comments
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by kamens 14y ago
Since others answered the harder question: camtasia+gifbrewery
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by kamens 14y ago
Agreed on the small submenu issue. I think this instant behavior makes the most sense when it's always the case that submenu.height() == menu.height(). Was pointed to http://michelf.ca/blog/2005/mac-sub-menus/ by @gecko this morning, whic
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by kamens 14y ago
Did you apply for a job as an intern or full-timer? We're mostly looking for longer-term non-volunteer commitments when dealing with things like our data/analytics, but our open source repos are very volunteer-friendly: https://github.com/
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by kamens 14y ago
An increase in women in tech majors and a company mission that strongly appeals to both women and men.
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by kamens 14y ago
And what I'm asking you is: can you come up with any possible explanations for an increase in women devs over time that should be celebrated, especially at an organization that values equal education for everyone, without first wondering if
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by kamens 14y ago
Transparency about our interviewing process: http://bjk5.com/post/3340326040/in-any-language-you-want-kha... (which comes from the hiring cultures at Fog Creek and Google, see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing.
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by kamens 14y ago
Khan Academy! We focus incredibly hard on our internship program. Just made this page the other day to share more: http://www.khanacademy.org/careers/interns
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A maker-manager's schedule(bjk5.com)
5 points by kamens 14y ago|0 comments
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The Khan Academy Internship Experience(dylanv.org)
19 points by kamens 14y ago|0 comments
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by kamens 14y ago
It's not as "hack"-y as a HN reader might like, but the bottom line is you should help your journalist tell a story. That's their job, so make it easy. When we launched Precorder, we got little (and so-so) press by describing a newly launch
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by kamens 14y ago
Worth repeating: every intern ever anywhere should blog a summarizing post like this at the end of their internship. Not only does it have obvious and enormous personal benefits for Jamie, but it's galvanizing for the team to look back and
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by kamens 14y ago
This is awesome help, thank you very much.
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by kamens 14y ago
Agreed. You're absolutely right that it's an indirect estimate of how many people you have in the test and doesn't add any extra information. The only thing I'm suggesting is that looking at a graph that is wildly fluctuating up and down ca
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by kamens 14y ago
Say your current significance number currently claims 99% significance in favor of alternative A. A historical graph can show you that 12 hours ago, there was a stat sig in favor of alternative B (we've seen this plenty of times). Some metr
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by kamens 14y ago
Amen to that. This is an issue we've been very aware of recently, and we're discussing various possibilities for mitigating. The point about using historical graphs instead of single significance numbers reduces, but does not solve, the lik
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by kamens 14y ago
Disclaimer: I'm part of Khan Academy. Not going to chime in w/ my deeper disagreement w/ the original critic and the other article on the frontpage. I would like to correct a persistent misconception or two. Persistent misconception: "...we
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by kamens 14y ago
Ah. Well, first of all, we have already gone through the pain of building a pipeline to export the majority of our heavy data analytics to a Hadoop/Hive setup on EC2. So, yes, we only use App Engine's mapreduce in certain cases where it mak

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