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by kamens 16y ago
If your front-end dev work includes JS experience and you're interested in/passionate about math, our part-time contributors are currently focused on building out our JS-powered library of math practice exercises, and we would love help.
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by kamens 16y ago
khanacademy.org - Mountain View, CA - remote is a possibility Hiring full-time devs and dev interns. Non-profit trying to change education. Backed by Gates Foundation and Google. ben+HN@khanacademy.org for more info
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by kamens 16y ago
No, sorry. Blogger contacted and covered us.
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by kamens 16y ago
It doesn't look like the key feature was used for this video. I'm not the blog author, but I think he was just having a good time w/ the vid. Can't exactly speak to that ;)
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by kamens 16y ago
Thanks -- this is our side-project which we posted on HN a while back during launch: http://bjk5.com/post/2768063563/great-white-sharks-are-the-b...
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by kamens 16y ago
This is a cool idea. Thank you!
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by kamens 16y ago
Thanks for the input, all. We're changing it.
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by kamens 16y ago
We eventually settled on "Never edit your videos again" but maybe we should switch it back. We were closer to "Never miss a moment," but the bottom line is that you can already never miss a moment by recording the entire 2 hours of footage.
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by kamens 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.airshipsoftware.com/precorder
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Show HN: Just launched our side project Precorder, new way to record iPhone vids
18 points by kamens 16y ago|12 comments
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by kamens 16y ago
This is absolutely gorgeous. You've gotta come work more closely w/ the team so we can keep this tightly integrated w/ the direction of the whole site. Shoot me an email at ben@khanacademy.org
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by kamens 16y ago
The tricky part here (as it is for grades, I suppose) is that the more these types of rewards are used for real-life evaluation, the stronger the incentive to cheat. While I agree that grades are fairly broken as-is for a number of students
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by kamens 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.khanacademy.org/badges/view
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Show HN: We just launched badges for Khan Academy
8 points by kamens 16y ago|4 comments
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by kamens 16y ago
Jason and I started out helping on the side and just recently began working full-time on K.A. Always willing to chat about this stuff -- let us know what you're working on at some point.
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by kamens 16y ago
Thanks! Check out Jason's work designing the UI here: http://shipordie.com/post/1670651184/first-iterations-the-ne... and let us know if you have any feedback. We'll be getting a bunch of solid data from real students soon as they use the
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by kamens 16y ago
Fred Wilson just posted a great article about dealing admirably with separation from a founding team member: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/06/parting-ways-with-a-founding...
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Parting ways with a founder(avc.com)
37 points by kamens 16y ago|16 comments
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by kamens 16y ago
If you're one or two devs, save yourself a bunch of hassle and use Kiln (kilnhg.com) for free. Yes, I'm a Kiln dev...
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by kamens 17y ago
Kiln, like FogBugz, also offers a Student & Startup account that's completely free for 2 users. Disclaimer: I work on Kiln and FogBugz, but this is relevant to the article's assessments.
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by kamens 17y ago
There's real confusion in this post. Rico's statement "Each execution builds the expression tree, and then builds the required SQL." is talking about turning a LINQ expression tree into a SQL string before SQL Server ever gets a chance to
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by kamens 17y ago
Kiln also takes care of all configuration/setup for you...and the On Demand version gets you regular off-site backups, secure data center hosting, all that good stuff.
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by kamens 17y ago
We Fog Creek developers were just mentioning this hilarious possibility.
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by kamens 17y ago
The answer is Mercurial -- we'll be making the website much more straightforward as we flesh out its content very soon.
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by kamens 18y ago
I always knew that Whitehead was a pretty smart guy. Process philosophers must love this.
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How Fog Creek uses FogBugz for Recruiting(fogcreek.com)
2 points by kamens 18y ago|0 comments
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by kamens 18y ago
Speaking as one of the developers who watched Joel put up the blinds, I know that this one shared instance of "servant leadership" falls in line with plenty of others that go unmentioned. Just off the top of my head, I remember one Fog Cree
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by kamens 18y ago
Yes