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by spicyj 15y ago
Printed photos and CDs differ in that printed photos are useful without a computer, whereas CDs hold no sentimental value and are used only as a transfer medium.
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Khan Academy Site Design Evolution(shipordie.com)
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by spicyj 15y ago
You don't have that assurance whenever you install anything.
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by spicyj 15y ago
On sane systems, tab completion refuses to complete if there is more than one potential completion. Unfortunately, I seem to remember that Windows does some silly thing where it cycles through the possibilities…
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by spicyj 15y ago
The title of this post would probably make more sense as "Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes With Daily Deals".
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by spicyj 15y ago
Yep, the pixelation is something I've noticed all around. Hopefully it will be fixed in 10.7.1.
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by spicyj 15y ago
It does. ü < crude attempt at a smiley face ;)
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by spicyj 15y ago
Yep. On the spreadsheet that repos mentions, there is a list of planned exercises. As rubergly mentioned, this week we'll be focusing on fixing all the bugs and getting this deployed to real users but after that we'll definitely be open to
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by spicyj 15y ago
I had just filed a bug about that: https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises/issues/377 We'll fix it this week.
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by spicyj 15y ago
This is a near-complete rewrite of all of the exercises live on the site currently. The scratchpad text tool has been removed because it doesn't provide much that isn't easily available via other means. You can see the beta of the new site
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by spicyj 15y ago
This article is written to sound like the suspension was due to blantant sexism, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that. Almost certainly just a innocent misunderstanding.
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by spicyj 15y ago
Am I wrong in my understanding that there is a single private key which, if stolen, will cause the whole system to fall apart?
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by spicyj 15y ago
I wouldn't trust that that will work; Lion provides different libraries and that gcc-4.0 is probably not compiled properly for Lion compatibility.
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by spicyj 15y ago
In countries other than the US, it is standard to treat corporation names as plural.
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by spicyj 15y ago
Full page version already submitted, with a little discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770094
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by spicyj 15y ago
Providing problems automatically on a website like Khan Academy is technically very challenging, because problems are hard to write. Currently, the many exercises are generated automatically with random numbers every time but such a schem
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by spicyj 15y ago
There's no such requirement. At one point, they required everything to be in native Objective-C code or HTML/JS (both were allowed) but they have lifted even that restriction.
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by spicyj 15y ago
Easier: short stocks that you think will go up. Avoid the whole VC problem entirely!
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by spicyj 15y ago
I think the grandparent was referring to extraterrestrial life that we haven't discovered.
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by spicyj 15y ago
I seriously doubt you're opening many pages with 10 MB images; even 1 MB is considered pretty large for a web image.
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by spicyj 15y ago
If X and Z are both non-zero, that is actually pretty good.
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by spicyj 15y ago
Never mind, found it: http://www.google.org/rec.html
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by spicyj 15y ago
What is your next question?
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by spicyj 15y ago
If you scroll down a bit, there are a few news stories indicating that it was closed.
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by spicyj 15y ago
Sorry, what is RE < C?
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by spicyj 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that Khan will add some pure comp-sci videos later; there's no problem starting with plain programming and describing how programs run, is there? Edit: Already (on his second day of making videos) he is starting to branch in
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by spicyj 15y ago
Yeah, strange that it isn't pure black.
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by spicyj 15y ago
> The datastore and all of that aren't a big deal. Why do you say that?
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He uploaded a new one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYp1V84Xqc
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by spicyj 15y ago
I am going to try and take advantage of your comment's popularity and post a link near the top of the page to the new video that seems to replace the one that he took down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYp1V84Xqc Hopefully a mod can ch

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