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Why My MOOC Is Not Built on Video
A MOOC professor takes a contrarian view and creates a MOOC without relying on videos, and makeing the claim that they are not necessary for a meaningful online learning experience.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,087 posts.
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What Would You Recommend to a Bright 14 Year Old?
I'm receiving lots of recommendations via the HN item, I will need to vet and categorise them, but they are mostly looking great. Here, unvetted and uncategorised are some:
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Hacker School is now the Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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How to Ask Questions the Smart Way
Translations: Brazilo-Portuguese Chinese (Traditional) Czech Dutch Estonian French Georgian German Greek Hindi Hungarian Indonesion Japanese Lithuanian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Ukrainian Uzbek If you want to copy, mirror, translate, or excerpt this document, please see my copying policy .
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A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
I’m a YC founder, but I’m not one of the many YC founders whose company has taken off quite yet. Actually, I’m no longer working on the company that I applied to YC with and presented at Demo Day....
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Commandos, Infantry, and Police
As I was driving home, I found myself thinking about a favorite section of the book Accidental Empires, by longtime computer journalist Robert X. Cringely. Originally published in 1993, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, but it still contains a lot of great insights about the personalities
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Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class
The Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department engaged in a joint research project to advance new approaches to teaching.
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Welcome Peter
Edit: Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. I’m delighted to announce Peter Thiel is joining YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners. In addition to founding PayPal and Palantir and being the first investor in Facebook, Peter has been involved with many of the most important technology companies…
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Ending the open office epidemic
Open offices are all the rage, but are they actually helping us get more done. We don't think that's the case.
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Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do DevOps Anymore
The story of one programmer’s journey into, and vehement rejection of, this thing we call “DevOps” – lessons learned, sound advice and why you’re probably doing it all…
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Sexism in Tech: Don’t Ask Me Unless You’re Ready to Call Someone a Whistleblower
Sexism in tech is out of hand, and talking about it is risky business.
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Coding Like a Girl
(this was originally given as a talk at AlterConf in Oakland)
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The Hiring Post
The developer job interview doesn't work: it measures a basket of skills uncorrelated with job performance. Work-sample tests, warm-ups, and how to grade your own hiring process.
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Fired
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Career-Changing Programming Books
When I graduated with a Computer Science degree ten years ago, I was excited to dive into the world of professional programming. I had done well in school, and I thought I was completely ready to ...
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Karojisatsu – Leaving the DevOps Community
About 7 years ago, I moved back to Atlanta. The cloud thing was just getting started and I decided to start a local cloud meetup group. One of the earlier attendees was a gentleman named Walter. Walter was one of the more passionate participants in the early days of the meetup. It turns out that…
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