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by sekou 9y ago
Salman Khan's One World Schoolhouse does a good job exploring this topic I think. On the one hand many students struggle with what he calls a "swiss cheese" understanding of math: lacking mastery of fundamental concepts that
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by sekou 9y ago
Instagram was on the path to becoming a true rival to Facebook, that's why Mark Zuckerberg bought it. They had very savvy engineers working on a fantastic product; that's still true it's just happening under different ownersh
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by sekou 9y ago
I remember reading Instagram blog posts and having a sense that engineering the product well was something they held to high importance. Since then they've been acquired by Facebook but their team still seems driven by those kinds of v
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by sekou 10y ago
Even though diagnosis is only one piece of the puzzle, what I would hope is that this becomes part of the answer to the high cost of healthcare.
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by sekou 10y ago
Honestly I just wrote the first two fields that came to my head when I thought of something LinkedIn isn't particularly optimized for. It may have helped to mention that.
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by sekou 10y ago
This is what I took it to mean. It wouldn't be horrible if Starbucks was the only option for coffee, but take away all the small cafes and you miss out on a lot. There may be some trouble with that analogy but the idea is there's
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by sekou 10y ago
I don't know how technology can best help people in different places make money and find the work they want. I think the author is saying that economies of scale helps bigger companies deliver better products and services, but I think
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by sekou 10y ago
> artisanal, shade-grown code doesn’t scale to large engineering organizations Some leeway could me made around that statement. People who work in fishing and agricultural industries for example could benefit from unique and specially cr
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President Obama on How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Jobs(youtube.com)
1 points by sekou 10y ago|1 comments
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by sekou 10y ago
A question that comes to mind: What is the future of "meaningful work" If technology is poised to render sustenance-based work obsolete? The utopian idea is societies where education, arts and entertainment are what we consider to
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by sekou 10y ago
I understand that global internet connectivity usually occurs through a large telecom in a lot of African countries and governments can shut down that connection, but I wonder if a focus on creating decentralized networks can help people co
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by sekou 10y ago
Microsoft introduced the tablet PC in 2001, nine years before the first iPad. As with Apple's watch now, the experience wasn't worth the cost. Clues about what the future will look like are already all around us and I think this i
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Finding a job without a recruiter(leftontheweb.com)
2 points by sekou 11y ago|0 comments
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by sekou 11y ago
Providing more open access to existing research information is just as important as empowering people to share and distribute the findings of their research in formats that both machines and people can understand. I believe we have already
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by sekou 11y ago
I thought about this idea a while back when I saw an article about modernizing the concept of the trailer park home. I guess cultural grouping could be bad if it lead to more homogeneous thinking, but maybe it could occur naturally on a sma
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by sekou 14y ago
I'm surprised Windows wasn't mentioned in the article. Although the latest version has been met with mixed reactions, I think the fact that Microsoft has embraced "flat" design will have a measure of influence on the future of the aesthetic
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by sekou 14y ago
I'm making my way through Jeffery Way's fantastic jQuery series. This looks similar to a Publish/Subscribe concept, also jQuery deferreds are apparently another good way to avoid putting too much code into a success callback.
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by sekou 14y ago
I'm not the type to cling to dying business models, but I actually would consider paying a little money to get in-depth quality analysis of current events or topics I find interesting, just like I'd be willing to spend money on a good book.
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by sekou 14y ago
It's coincidental this post is popular because less than a week ago I decided to relive the past and install StarCraft: Brood War to play over LAN. It's still just as fun, but I forgot how easily the game consumes your time.
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by sekou 15y ago
I don't know how much market share Apple has in India or the more prosperous African countries, but without selling any kind of low-priced/low-tech phone Apple doesn't compete at all with Nokia or Samsung in that market segment. I wonder if
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Nollywood: Lights, Camera, Africa (economist.com)
2 points by sekou 15y ago|0 comments
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by sekou 15y ago
It may be easy to link together well developed Python libraries for web development, I think it's one of the benefits of working in Python, but full stack frameworks like Django that provide a somewhat unified API exist at least in my mind
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Single Page Web App Architecture Done Right(duganchen.ca)
6 points by sekou 15y ago|0 comments
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by sekou 15y ago
It might be pertinent to point out that the Philippines is one of the Goldman Sachs deemed "Next 11" countries. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Eleven ) I hope to see amazing changes in these countries in the next few decades. While be
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by sekou 15y ago
If there is a reluctance among the very wealthy to pay taxes, I'd guess that they don't trust a government that they believe to be inefficient, and that they see no benefit in paying taxes for themselves or their businesses. It seems like i
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by sekou 15y ago
If anyone remembers the Productivity Future Vision ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvA9lA7_5FE ) video, it looks like Microsoft is staying true to its beliefs about the future of interfaces in computing.
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by sekou 16y ago
Yeah, it isn't real. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3WGf9pX0A
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by sekou 16y ago
I truly believe that stuff like Khan Academy is a part of the real future of education.
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by sekou 16y ago
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/life-and-death-of-microso... http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/30/what-killed-the-kin/ These two articles from Engadget explain what happened very well. Essentially the thing was dead and cannibalized b
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How I Got Famous on The Internetz(vbs.tv)
1 points by sekou 16y ago|0 comments

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