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by rubergly 15y ago
I don't understand anything about the stock market, but giving someone a large portion of stock with the agreement that it can never be sold seems like the wrong thing to do when people need to spend more to bring us out of a recession.
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by rubergly 15y ago
I think you're ignoring the fact that there's much more to publishers than just printing a physical copy of a book and shipping it to shelves. There's marketing, editing, screening, etc. Think what looking for books would be like if there w
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by rubergly 15y ago
Am I the only one who thought this was some attack on Chrome? Whenever I hear talk about browser chrome I always think that Google's name choice was a little confusing. Probably best in the end, though, since it's a catchy name.
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by rubergly 15y ago
Agreed. Since his logic of "no one seemed to care when I removed the free version" implies that very few people who download the free app would ever buy the paid one, it seems strange that he would compare the sales directly. If the free ve
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by rubergly 15y ago
Not only did sales increase incrementally, but nobody seemed to notice. What does this mean? This "nobody even noticed!" attitude he expresses several times seems very ignorant to me. Sure, very few people heard that Instapaper ha
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by rubergly 15y ago
The latest version of the iOS app has search. Pull down when in a list of articles, and a search bar comes up.
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by rubergly 15y ago
First, "I did X, then Y increased, then I did X again right before Z, which clearly increases Y, happened, and Y increased again!" is not empirical evidence, and many of Marco's conclusions were very dependent on (I think unreasonable) as
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by rubergly 15y ago
This isn't the right conclusion to draw from his investigating. All he showed was that, as you said, few people upgraded from the free app to the paid one. This does not necessarily mean that the free app did not significantly help the pa
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by rubergly 15y ago
A bad team isn't going to be made good because of lunch. But I think the point of the article is that it can make a good team (full of very skilled people who are unenthused about their work experience) into a great time (full of very skill
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by rubergly 16y ago
The philosophy of Jump reminded me a lot of the philosophy behind Khan Academy, but with that philosophy used to adapt the curriculum instead of to create a new way of digesting knowledge and exercising it. While they're similar, the bigges
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by rubergly 16y ago
But why is the item selected in the first place? It's not like it's doing the same animation as when the item is actually clicked (at which point it turns blue).
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by rubergly 16y ago
One of the complaints I've recently seen pop up consistently regarding Khan Academy is something to the effect of "Why should I trust this one guy? What does he know?" Prominent displays of Bill Gates helps to convince a random visitor of t
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by rubergly 16y ago
The overview is here, which I found more helpful: http://ipython.github.com/ipython-doc/dev/overview.html
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by rubergly 16y ago
The design looks very slick, and I'm very impressed. My one complaint is that it seems wrong to have a pseudo-hover state for the entries in the lists. I don't know what standard practice is in mobile web interfaces, but it seems strange t
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by rubergly 16y ago
I wonder: 11 people seems like a rather small sample size; does Canonical typically do any testing with larger samples? I'm surprised that only 5/10 people tried to open another Firefox window by clicking the launcher icon. Personally, I th
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by rubergly 16y ago
Your example of a logarithmic upvote/point scale is wrong (it's currently a simple scale of multiplying by 10), and you might want to update it for clarity. I believe you meant it would take 1 upvote/point to get from 0 to 1, 10 upvotes/poi
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by rubergly 16y ago
The problem with this that I foresee is that it seems rather impossible to predict actual views of a comment. I heavily doubt that most viewers of the comment page will read most of the comments. So this will create a positive feedback lo
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by rubergly 16y ago
I'm interested in hearing more about this (failed) experience. The only stories I've heard about trying to integrate KhanAcademy into the classroom have been from their pilot program in Los Altos, which to my knowledge has been very success
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by rubergly 16y ago
I agree, and I thought of that too when reading the article. In some sense, it doesn't matter if Khan is just underlining and emphasizing the same word that the student doesn't understand over and over again, because the goal is for the stu
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by rubergly 16y ago
This is very important. The article ends on the note of "they're not even looking to hire educators; they're hiring software developers " as if that's an extremely poignant accusation of the misdirection of the Academy, but the stuff that
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by rubergly 16y ago
I'm curious; do you have experience (or know of someone who does) of learning Emacs by using it like Notepad and slowly learning the keyboard shortcuts by looking up things in menus? I'm skeptical that this approach would work; I think ther
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by rubergly 16y ago
Good point. My gnome-do workflow is basically just typing in "chrome", "term", or "emacs" and hitting enter, and that could easily translate to hotkey slots. From what I recall of using unity in 10.10, it was difficult to open the same appl
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by rubergly 16y ago
I'm not trying to do type inference (yet, that might be a direction of expansion for next year), and, anyway, my program is demanding type annotations in docstrings.
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by rubergly 16y ago
There are definitely already extensions that completely remodel the UI experience of sites like Facebook. They've only been targeted at making things more usable and adding features that people want, rarely undoing new Facebook redesigns. T
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by rubergly 16y ago
I indeed have read Rossum's blog posts, but I haven't been following Python 3 at all, and only found out about annotations after looking at Pytyp, so that's definitely interesting and helpful, thanks.
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by rubergly 16y ago
I'm a university student, and as a thesis project I've been working on a static type-checker for Python. I'm interested to see if people think this would be of practical good (my advisor and I certainly think it could be).
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by rubergly 16y ago
interesting; I'll look forward to this when 11.04 leaves beta. though recently I've found that just auto-hiding the two default Gnome panels and calling up gnome-do to open applications works well with my workflow.
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by rubergly 16y ago
How is the Unity Launcher like Gnome-Do on steroids? Maybe things have improved, but the Launcher of the Unity that's included in Ubuntu 10.10's repositories is really limited. It doesn't have any keyboard shortcut to load the launcher (at
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by rubergly 16y ago
The only complaint I've ever had with Unity is that the dock consumes the super key for shortcuts. The only reason I've been unable to stick with Unity is that I can't assign gnome-do to the super-based hotkey I'm used to. I could learn to
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by rubergly 16y ago
huh. I was just looking through No Starch Press's catalog last week after someone here mentioned the Manga Guide to Databases, and I saw this, but didn't realize it was only online before.

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