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by rkaplan 12y ago
Me too. Use the embed link instead: http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/40175706?rel=...
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by rkaplan 12y ago
Absolutely, there are guest codes for everyone who shows up.
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by rkaplan 12y ago
What's fantastic about this is that even though the class is at Stanford, everyone from around the world can follow along just as easily. Stanford is opening up more and more of its opportunities to the general public, which is awesome
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by rkaplan 12y ago
Interesting to note that you started this reply with "I think." Would it have carried more weight if you started with "perhaps" instead, or stripped it altogether? Maybe. Either way it's fun to think about.
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Type P R I D E in the first cells of a Google spreadsheet(docs.google.com)
15 points by rkaplan 12y ago|4 comments
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by rkaplan 12y ago
For the curious: the reason that this property with 24 holds is because 24 = 2^3 * 3. For any prime number p: p^2 - 1 = (p+1)(p-1) And p+1 and p-1 must both be multiples of 2 because p is odd. Furthermore, one of p+1 or p-1 is also a multip
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by rkaplan 13y ago
I'm interested. What's the solution?
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by rkaplan 13y ago
My aunt used to work at a school that did not have this policy in place. The principle had a debilitating head injury that put her in a coma; she is now unfit to work for the rest of her life. It was tremendously sad for everyone involved,
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by rkaplan 13y ago
What is most interesting to me is how the test shows the value we enjoy of living in the information age. Without instant access to rote information, knowing some of these facts was probably rather important a hundred years ago. Schools tod
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by rkaplan 13y ago
For anyone trying to determine how they can help: make a phone call. Politicians care about phone calls infinitely more than tweets or Change.org signatures. If enough people call the DoR (617-887-MDOR) and their MA representative with comp
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Elon Musk: Reasoning From First Principles in Disruptive Entrepreneurship(takingpitches.com)
3 points by rkaplan 13y ago|0 comments
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by rkaplan 13y ago
This reminds me very much of pg's recent essay about doing things that don't scale ( http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ). That essay's very direct title seems to come from the fact that technical founders, like the
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by rkaplan 13y ago
Because no new hardware is required from either the vender or the buyer. That's why it has the potential to take hold so quickly, and presumably why so many investors are interested.
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by rkaplan 13y ago
Can anyone explain this a quirk line of the source code to me? (In the framebuster portion at the top of the file): window.location.href = 'ht' + 'tp' + ':' + '//stewd'+ '.io/&#x27
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by rkaplan 13y ago
I found the footnote particularly interesting: "The Moon has no oxygen atmosphere, so how can something explode? Lunar meteors don't require oxygen or combustion to make themselves visible. They hit the ground with so much kinetic energy t
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by rkaplan 14y ago
I'm fortunate enough to have been included in that 5.7% today. Nonetheless, the statistic is highly misleading and the entire college process is becoming increasingly arbitrary. With so many talented candidates, it is often simply a crapsho
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Numbers Everyone Should Know (2009)(everythingisdata.wordpress.com)
1 points by rkaplan 14y ago|0 comments
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Throw in the Towel(wordplayer.com)
3 points by rkaplan 14y ago|1 comments
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Google Searches for Style(nytimes.com)
5 points by rkaplan 14y ago|0 comments
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Liberal vs Conservative Programming(plus.google.com)
1 points by rkaplan 14y ago|0 comments
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Benford's Law(datagenetics.com)
4 points by rkaplan 14y ago|1 comments
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What is a Browser? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rkaplan 14y ago|0 comments
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by rkaplan 14y ago
Besides everything that has been already mentioned, there's another glaring reason Google would be unwise to do this: Antitrust. Google is already being considered for an antitrust investigation by the DoJ. This makes sense, given their dom
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by rkaplan 14y ago
This is fantastic. The UI is wonderful, site design is responsive, and from what I've found so far it has great content. Kudos for you for committing the time to building such a major project and finally shipping. Initial feedback (major to
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Apple Fires Manager of Flawed Maps Service(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by rkaplan 14y ago|0 comments
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by rkaplan 14y ago
This is a great tool. However, of the two domains I've clicked on to buy so far, both have been purchased already by a new party since their expiration. It would be great if this list were filtered by what's still available.
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Iron Dumping Experiment in Pacific Alarms Marine Experts(nytimes.com)
2 points by rkaplan 14y ago|0 comments
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by rkaplan 14y ago
This could start a trend towards moving away from Kickstarter. So far, the more famous projects that have pursued funding from a similar model without using Kickstarter itself (e.g. Lockitron, App.net) have done so out of necessity – they w
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What if Web Users Could Sell Their Own Data?(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
21 points by rkaplan 14y ago|11 comments
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by rkaplan 14y ago
This is an issue for me as well. Ideally, I'd like to be able to command-click five or ten articles, then get through them one by one, rather than having to return to SkimLinks after I read each one.

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