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by spicyj 14y ago
Seems like you could more or less test out the setup with your current machine but VMs on a remote server so you could get an idea of the latency and see how well it works for you. It seems like a reasonable idea to me if you always have a
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by spicyj 14y ago
Khan Academy Mountain View, CA - full-time and intern, designers and devs We're a non-profit whose mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We're scaling quickly. Our students answer over 2 million math problems pe
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by spicyj 14y ago
Or just: git diff REV1 REV2 >some.patch patch -p1 <some.patch
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by spicyj 14y ago
Is there a real reason you can't just get rid of the size requirement? People can see to resize their browser window if they're feeling cramped and it's practical.
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by spicyj 14y ago
> or view a video in YouTube at this lightning speed! What does that even mean?
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by spicyj 14y ago
If it helps, you can read the comments from when it was posted and got 221 points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3591298
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by spicyj 14y ago
Very cool. Just wanted to mention that we've had the same capability in the Khan Academy CS environment for a few months now: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/gear/1178931559 Read John Resig's blog post for more details: http://news.ycombin
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by spicyj 14y ago
Yes, we've been working some on making the website more mobile-friendly -- just last week we added some styles for our topic pages: http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra Visit that page on a phone to see the alternate layout; we're also
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Khan Academy for iPhone(itunes.apple.com)
39 points by spicyj 14y ago|19 comments
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by spicyj 14y ago
I interpreted the OP suggesting that you not use a single multiparadigm language because then you won't be forced to follow the new principle everywhere. Of course, it's possible to do (for example) OOP in a lisp-like language, but you'll
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by spicyj 14y ago
Huge congrats to Mike Pall on the release. The man is a machine when it comes to this sort of thing.
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by spicyj 14y ago
No problem, huge congrats on shipping!
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by spicyj 14y ago
How does it know which shards are relevant? I thought that data was sharded by primary key.
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by spicyj 14y ago
> to combine multiple polls to increase the effective sample size and shrink confidence intervals How does this work? I was under the impression that to shrink the confidence interval by half you need 4x as many sample points, but there
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One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education(forbes.com)
8 points by spicyj 14y ago|1 comments
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by spicyj 14y ago
Khan Academy - Mountain View, CA - full-time and intern, designers and devs We're a non-profit whose mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We're scaling quickly. Our students answer over 2 million math problems
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by spicyj 14y ago
That would be true, but you are in fact allowed to miss a couple of questions and still get a perfect score.
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by spicyj 14y ago
I don't think the status site is actually on the same infrastructure… maybe it's being DDOSed as well.
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by spicyj 14y ago
Gotcha. :)
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by spicyj 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what was the bug?
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by spicyj 14y ago
I assume GP meant, don't store all the words in memory at once.
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by spicyj 14y ago
Paid. Even though we're a nonprofit, our salaries are competitive with other tech companies.
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Sal Khan: Why School Should Be More Like Summer Camp(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by spicyj 14y ago|0 comments
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by spicyj 14y ago
In the "Walkthrough: Types" example (as well as the "Classes" one), that gives me an error.
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by spicyj 14y ago
The compilers for C# and F# are named csc and fsc, respectively. I think we can handle two extra characters. ;)
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by spicyj 14y ago
Have you used the popular library Underscore.js http://underscorejs.org/ ? The equivalent to your code in Underscore would be: _.chain([1,2,3]).map(n => n * n).filter(n => n >= 2).value()
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by spicyj 14y ago
"wingspan" * 7 is also gramatically correct JavaScript, but evaluates to NaN and almost certainly isn't what you want in your JS program, which is why TypeScript prints a type error (well, warning) if you try to compile it. Having optional
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by spicyj 14y ago
This looks nice. I love the fact that there's no runtime that needs to be included or any overhead when the compiled JS runs. It'd be 100% more useful if it was more aware of nullable types -- as it is, it appears that null * 7 com
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by spicyj 14y ago
Mozilla has a JS alternative? I wish that http://www.rust-lang.org compiled to JS but it doesn't.
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by spicyj 14y ago
Khan Academy - Mountain View, CA - full-time and intern, designers and devs We're a non-profit whose mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We're scaling quickly. Our students answer over 2 million math problems

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