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by spicyj 15y ago
Khan Academy (Mountain View) is hiring: Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly. Our students answer over 2 million math exe
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by spicyj 15y ago
Hmm, okay. It still seems that people are often confused by this, though.
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by spicyj 15y ago
While we're on this topic, can you add a note to the profile page that says that email isn't publicly visible? This seems to be a common source of confusion.
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Motivating Students and the Gamification of Learning(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by spicyj 15y ago|0 comments
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by spicyj 15y ago
I just stumbled across this interesting SO answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3362623/49485
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by spicyj 15y ago
However, in C and Java they're actually useful because they delimit variable scope. In JavaScript I'm not aware of any use for them.
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by spicyj 15y ago
One of the strangest things about == is that although it's commutative, it's not transitive: 0 == '0' // true 0 == '' // true '0' == '' // false
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by spicyj 15y ago
Yet, there is still a value x such that x != x and x !== x. That value is NaN. If true equality matters, use a helper function: function equal(a, b) { if (a === b) return true ; if (isNaN(a) && isNaN(b))
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by spicyj 15y ago
JavaScript doesn't need them any more than Python does; they're used almost always simply because people don't know the (simple) rules of when statements end.
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by spicyj 15y ago
Khan Academy (Mountain View) is hiring: Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly. Our students answer over 2 million math exe
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by spicyj 15y ago
Absolutely. The server-side code is also open-source and can be found here: https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Code/Website/Group/stable Of course, we write the software specifically for the Khan Academy site so you would need to change some
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by spicyj 15y ago
Remote work can be a possibility for the right candidate -- there are a couple devs who work remotely right now. If you're interested, it can't hurt to apply.
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by spicyj 15y ago
Recent KA hires have included: Beth Harris and Steven Zucker ( http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ ) Vi Hart ( http://www.youtube.com/user/vihart ) Brit Cruise ( http://www.youtube.com/user/ArtOfTheProblem )
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by spicyj 15y ago
I'll mention that we're still hiring for both full-timers and interns. Here's the job post: Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing
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by spicyj 15y ago
Can anyone say how applicable these suggestions are to getting internships while still in college?
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by spicyj 15y ago
If you contact Apple support they'll let you redownload all of your purchases.
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by spicyj 15y ago
I believe that this has never been the case with Tarsnap -- the keys are stored only locally. (cperciva can delete your encrypted data but not decrypt it.)
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by spicyj 15y ago
> So congrats! You just had lunch with the historical equivalent of Einstein. kamens is the lead dev at Khan Academy, so such lunches are not a rare thing for him. :)
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by spicyj 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with the original link. (I'm KA intern/part-time and the submitter is a full-time KA dev.)
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by spicyj 15y ago
I agree completely, but my point is that what they're doing is likely to have little effect -- who goes to wordpress.com?
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by spicyj 15y ago
As far as I can tell, this is only the wordpress.com homepage (not the blogs they host) which is probably mostly unused.
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by spicyj 15y ago
The "Remember me" feature works normally. There's a "remember this computer for 30 days" option that sets a cookie on the computer so that you aren't prompted for the one-time password again, just your regular one (if "Remember me" is turne
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by spicyj 15y ago
It says quite clearly in the README: "Lion is required to build and run MacGap applications."
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by spicyj 15y ago
The extension "kbfiles" may do what you want: http://kiln.stackexchange.com/questions/1873/how-do-you-use-...
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by spicyj 15y ago
Just a heads-up/reminder: http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck is broken.
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by spicyj 15y ago
In-person is strongly preferred, but remote is a possibility for the right person -- there are a couple of employees who work full-time remotely. If you're looking for something less formal, here's information about volunteering and helping
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by spicyj 15y ago
I'm not sure what the problem is -- there are a whole bunch of his comments on the page. Make sure that the comments are sorted by top or best (you can change the sort order right under "top 200 comments").
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by spicyj 15y ago
Just wanted to mention that if any of this sounds interesting, Khan Academy is hiring both for full-time devs and interns. Here's the job post: Mountain View - Khan Academy (full-timers and interns welcome year-round) Our mission is
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by spicyj 15y ago
Hi, part-time Khan Academy employee here (I didn't get your email, just going off what you've written here). Probably WebGL exercises are not quite what we're looking for because all of our exercises are supported on browsers down to IE8. T
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Stack Exchange Gives Back 2011(blog.stackoverflow.com)
3 points by spicyj 15y ago|0 comments

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