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by sramam 9y ago
> Our culture can feel intimidating, especially if you have any degree of imposter syndrome Could you elaborate?
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by sramam 9y ago
I think a better parallel would be to compare a home-owner with someone who lives completely in air-bnb. I'd have a much easier time calling them houseless. There two factors that affect it: 1. The unit of time that the rental is activ
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Themis: testing-based approach for measuring discrimination in a software system(github.com)
1 points by sramam 9y ago|0 comments
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by sramam 10y ago
> Tests are really a misnomer -- they don't verify the correct execution of the code. What they do is probe the execution of the code. It tells me what the code is actually doing and documents my assumptions about what it should be
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by sramam 10y ago
I like this line of thinking! Not-really-obstructive limits that prevent abuse.
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by sramam 10y ago
I can't seem to find the reference to it, but there was a link on HN a couple of years ago of a dad who taught kids (9 year olds IIRC) to program a robot by creating a real world obstacle course, giving them a basic set of "comman
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by sramam 11y ago
the wysiwyg markdown editor is nicely done. Is the intent to create a page per meeting instead of the continuous flow that represents a chat channel in slack or comparable?
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by sramam 11y ago
The insight on mobile device access among the homeless was very non-obvious and interesting. > it didnt cost tax payers a cent to develop or host Wasn't clear from the site on how it was funded. Could you share? That seems like an r
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by sramam 12y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20131207020421/http://ericnieble...
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by sramam 12y ago
neat idea. Would be really cool if there was a way to provide this DB to other sites to enable similar proactive account protections, without having to build their own.
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A Vital Measure: Your Surgeon’s Skill(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by sramam 13y ago|0 comments
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by sramam 13y ago
I too had built something like this while learning to build web-sites: http://www.groovydream.com/get_a_bunch/1 Surprisingly, people still post occasionally....
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by sramam 13y ago
ShapeSecurity.com, Mountain View, CA. Fulltime, Local, US Citizens Front-end/Full-stack engineers. We are working to make the internet more secure. I am looking for great additions to our front-end team. We are a django/angular.js/d3.js sho
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by sramam 14y ago
But that's only because they didn't have a choice till very recently. The future will tell if it remains that way. As one indicator, I frequently catch my 2 yr old getting frustrated when pointing at my macbook screen (as opposed to the iPa
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by sramam 14y ago
You should consider donating your glasses: http://www.volunteerguide.org/minutes/service-projects/eyegl...
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Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun(ted.com)
1 points by sramam 14y ago|0 comments
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How to not teach physics(dissidentvoice.org)
3 points by sramam 14y ago|0 comments
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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod (Copyright Math - TED Talk)(ted.com)
12 points by sramam 15y ago|1 comments
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by sramam 15y ago
Being symbol agnostic is acceptable, even expected, once mastery is accomplished. Dealing with both forms (computer and paper) while learning can be challenging - possibly enough to be a turn off altogether.
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That old-time startup religion(startuplessonslearned.com)
2 points by sramam 15y ago|0 comments
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by sramam 15y ago
As a parent of a 1 year old perhaps I should consider bailing on his "speaking to humans" effort and get him focused on "speaking to computers"! :)
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Physics of the Yellow Angry Bird(wired.com)
8 points by sramam 15y ago|0 comments
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Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook(cbsnews.com)
1 points by sramam 15y ago|0 comments
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by sramam 15y ago
"We are unabashedly inspired by Y Combinator." http://www.imaginek12.com/model.html
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OccupyAppStore(avc.com)
20 points by sramam 15y ago|3 comments
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The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform(online.wsj.com)
7 points by sramam 15y ago|3 comments
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Notes From a Dragon Mom(nytimes.com)
2 points by sramam 15y ago|0 comments
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Mobile Content: If in Doubt, Leave It Out(useit.com)
1 points by sramam 15y ago|0 comments
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Church leader tweets picket of Jobs' funeral--via iPhone(news.cnet.com)
3 points by sramam 15y ago|0 comments
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by sramam 15y ago
It's interesting that almost all comments thus far uniformly criticize the game for propaganda bias and that real-life is not this hard. A special-ed teacher I work with has a dimmer view than most of the US education system - because she s

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