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by mnazim 15y ago
Exactly my point. What we need is a system with sound pedagogical foundation, not necessarily at the scale of millions of student at first. May be start with 30 students in 1st standard in some government run school. Groom these 30 as they
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by mnazim 15y ago
Disagree strongly. Take 10 year old boy or a girl, give him the cheap tablet and unlimited internet supply and now read your statement again. "Cheap tablet with network connectivity will help self motivated students to learn by themselves"
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by mnazim 15y ago
I tried showing Khan Academy videos to my cousins going to very expensive private schools where 95% curriculum is in English right from the kindergarten. Here is what I observed. - They understood a lot from it. In some case even more than
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by mnazim 15y ago
I live in India and here are my thoughts: It's not about the price or how cool it is. First things first, it is a nifty achievement that 'can haz' the potential. BUT is cheap hardware really the most important thing here? No. Here is why. I
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by mnazim 15y ago
Don't know much about rails but for Django there - Satchmo( http://satchmoproject.com/ ) - Lightening Fast Shop ( http://www.getlfs.com/ ) More info - http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/ecommerce/ - http://readncode.com/blog/the-state-of-
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by mnazim 15y ago
Looks like you took my last line very personally. :) Agree fully with what you say in last para. No disagreement there. Peace.
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by mnazim 15y ago
When I say learn data structures and algorithms. I do not mean simply read up on the code. I learned programming, data structures and algorithms, under the man named Vinod Vishen. He never let us see any code or any book. He would explain t
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by mnazim 15y ago
I agree, but only to a certain degree. I do not say one should implement a linked list before writing the customary Hello, World program. Off course, it will be a couple of months before a "first time programmer" implements the first data s
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by mnazim 15y ago
These days discussion about programming generally seems to center around web applications development skills; but I was talking in more general sense. The Unix Philosophy, design of software and the idea behind the Unix are good to know and
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by mnazim 15y ago
Agree. It is good(and almost non-negotiable these days) to have knowledge of Linux but not a prerequisite for learning programming. PS: Learn Linux. It's an important skill.
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by mnazim 15y ago
Slightly opinionated, but good post. My only objection is to the statement: > Initially, screw the algorithms and data structures If this is not the worst advice to a beginner, then I do not know what is. What's so complicated about dat
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by mnazim 15y ago
Amazing! This is the best explanation/encouragement I have ever seen on contributing to FOSS. Even though it seems python specific, it can be used almost verbatim for other project. Double Thumbs Up.
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by mnazim 15y ago
I do not remember the last time when I saw something as beautiful as this one. It's amazing to know that it actually traps water with it's tongue instead of sipping it.
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by mnazim 15y ago
Nice one. Agree when 100% with the title. There is something for everyone in this one. I absolutely loved the part about elimination. I am not a designer myself(that means I can't design from scratch), but when I design something I take cou
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by mnazim 15y ago
Something I always tell newcomers/freshers(and also remind myself) 0. Learn the basics first(and keep hitting F5 on them occasionally), then start at 1. But there are many 1's and many are correct; choose your own 1, heck define a new 1 for
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Ubuntu Linux boosted by 10,000 seat PC win (itworld.com)
1 points by mnazim 15y ago|0 comments
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by mnazim 16y ago
Users always resist change. We should not be afraid to change because of that. Unity has a huge potential IMHO and the best time is when unity does not do very much. It will evolve with people learning to use it. "Release Early, Release Oft
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by mnazim 16y ago
I honestly believe our education systems(those that I know about) most of the time end up keeping some of the best people behind. The idea of degrees and diplomas where everything is depends on scores achieved in a set of examination is utt
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by mnazim 16y ago
My comment was not directed to you only. Such things rising to the front page is, in equal part, our(voters/commenters) fault also. A year back HN front page was all I needed for my daily dose of interesting tech stories(I hate Twitter). No
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by mnazim 16y ago
"server side language is just a glue between the front end and the data source" is the stupidest part of this post. Rest is fine, as latch said that sticking with what people know best is not bad and probably does not need a blog post. :) J
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by mnazim 16y ago
Stuff like this is the reason why people are saying HN quality is going down.
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by mnazim 16y ago
I am one of the worst cases of procrastination you can ever find. I always find something else to do instead of doing what I am supposed to do. Personally, I have experienced that there is only one way to get things done: 1. I try to minimi
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by mnazim 16y ago
Over the last couple of years, I have come to believe(firmly) that most(if not all) paid conferences are more about money and coolness(Hey! you know we are cool because we throw huge conferences). They want us to pay more because they want
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by mnazim 16y ago
+1 to you for that. We tried github for some of our private projects, but soon switched to a linode+redmine+git/hg. Now we are no rails champs; we all are python guys but setting up redmine(with some plugins was a cake walk) same goes for
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by mnazim 16y ago
:D me 2
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by mnazim 16y ago
Well to know that, they(the law makers) have to be smart enough to understand that JavaScript, HTML etc is also software/code(or a part of it) and technically might amount to exporting. :D (I love this feeling that we are able to laugh at t
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by mnazim 16y ago
Not just that. This law even places restrictions of access to open source softwares from sites like SourceForge, GoogleCode, GitHub etc. even when the original developers are not from US.
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by mnazim 16y ago
One of the countless reason to avoid complete dependence on US based companies.
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Scribes(a very nice editor) gets a PPA(mystilleef.blogspot.com)
3 points by mnazim 16y ago|0 comments
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by mnazim 16y ago
Oh thanks. For pointing out. I searched before posting, but couldn't find that.

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