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by kamens 15y ago
Understood. If you hop on into the our exercise team's hipchat room ( https://www.hipchat.com/g2m3UVDtY ) and throw us some specific spots where you got stuck, we'll try to improve.
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by kamens 15y ago
We've thought about it, need someone to go through and properly anonymize everything, etc -- not at the moment.
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by kamens 15y ago
I'll just add that even though the job ad isn't up yet, we're specifically looking for you quantitative big data folk. Apply through the ordinary software developer position for now -- but we're hunting for some passionate data engineers to
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by kamens 15y ago
KA member here. Today at 3:30 I'll be at our Los Altos district teacher feedback session for hours. As a dev, I meet with our pilot teachers regularly. Our implementations team does it literally every day. I have multiple email threads in m
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by kamens 15y ago
Seconded. @beneater now runs our exercise framework full-time, and our paths crossed via this github repo.
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by kamens 15y ago
Gorgeous application. Contacting you about the internship now.
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by kamens 15y ago
I'm shocked by how often this needs to be pointed out.
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by kamens 15y ago
(Obviously biased member of KA here.) "Khan Academy and its donors may preclude better products from coming along" I just don't understand this. KA, Udacity, Coursera, Codecademy, MITx, teachontablo.com, this list goes on. I don't see how K
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by kamens 15y ago
Cool. Just emailed you.
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by kamens 15y ago
This is the piece we (Khan Academy) need to create a compelling math exercise experience on tablets. Playing around for a few minutes, this product seems to be way ahead of anything else out there. If you're the creator, should I go through
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by kamens 15y ago
Sal showed up at our weekly company picnic/lunch today and said something like, "All these sites are down cuz of SOPA, but everything I read is still so hard to understand," so he dove in and made this this morning. Pretty cool.
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Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011(stackexchange.com)
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by kamens 15y ago
We're biased in favor of hiring people who can work with us in person, but regardless I highly recommend getting started via the open source framework mentioned above -- you'll connect pretty tightly with the team, get a sense for how we wo
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by kamens 15y ago
This isn't true any more. They recently announced faster frontend instances with more memory ( http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/12/app-engine-161-r... ), and I'm willing to bet this has been available internally since long before Th
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by kamens 15y ago
FWIW, I am sitting at a desk in the Khan Academy offices and am suffering from severe burning due to all the fires people have lit...ok this joke is weird. Not sure what you're using to judge "too long to roll out fully," but we're running
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by kamens 15y ago
Mountain View - Khan Academy (full-timers and interns welcome year-round) Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly. Our stude
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by kamens 15y ago
I find this to be incredibly short-sighted. Educational tech pundits are so quick to judge new ways of learning based on the content they have right now . I'm incredibly excited by things like Codecademy (and obviously Khan Academy) becau
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by kamens 15y ago
No, your analysis is not wrong -- except putting objects in a taskqueue to be persisted later is actually much faster than doing a datastore put in the first place (one reason being that you don't have to write to any indexes).
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by kamens 15y ago
Yes yes yes. We're: A) taking small steps every day to make our exercises more and more interactive (see @jpulgarin's link below) B) thinking about longer-term projects, simulations, whatever you want to call 'em. We welcome anybody to step
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by kamens 15y ago
Hobby programmers are making a big difference right now, helping out Khan Academy by contributing exercises. The whole thing is open source: http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises We've had people who claim to have never been professional
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by kamens 15y ago
We're aware of this, and as @genieyclo said, Google Apps for Education is currently the easiest way for a whole bunch of students to get going. We've been successful using Apps for Education with all of our pilot Khan Academy schools so far
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by kamens 15y ago
We are thinking very hard, right now, about how to open up Khan Academy content to other contributors without losing quality and consistency. If you look at some of the latest videos, you'll see Sal recording videos side-by-side with Vi Har
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Show HN: GAE/Bingo, A/Bingo split testing for App Engine & Khan Academy
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by kamens 15y ago
Mountain View - Khan Academy (full-timers and interns welcome year-round) Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly. Our stude
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by kamens 15y ago
@rubergly handled the drilling comment well, so I'll just quickly add: 1) We do want kids to learn lessons at home so that teachers are freed up to do more project-based learning and...well...teaching (instead of lecturing). This doesn't me
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by kamens 15y ago
We'd love to have anyone passionate about changing the world of education apply to Khan Academy. http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs
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by kamens 15y ago
Khan Academy (Mountain View, remote is a possibility). We're looking for top-notch developers to help create a free virtual classroom for the world. http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs
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by kamens 15y ago
I made the original statement in question. I actually felt it was important to not attribute this to any particular teacher. Criticize me all you like for this, but teachers have enough on their plates without worrying about being attacked
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Django's inclusion_tag is bad for App Engine(desmondbrand.com)
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by kamens 15y ago
As spicyj said, any adventurous soul should feel free to play around with the beta/testing site we have at http://khan-masterslave.appspot.com/exercisedashboard -- let us know how it goes.

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