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New Khan Academy Exercise Framework Is Live
Today we’re pushing live a complete rewrite of the Khan Academy Exercise framework ( live demo ).
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 920 posts.
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Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’
The free Web tutoring service “Khan Academy” has gotten much well-deserved attention, including a feature story in the current issue of Wired . That story includes a quote that literally took my breath away :
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Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby
There are hundreds of gas stations around San Francisco in the California Bay area. One might think that gas stations would spread out to serve local neighborhoods. But this idea is contradicted by a common observation. Whenever you visit a gas station, there is almost always another in the vicinity, often just across…
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Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
It's great that you aren't quitting google, but it seems like you misspoke rather than being misinterpreted. It's kind of random that you claim that people misheard the word "project" when it is easy to check the actual video and realize that you didn't say that word. Your exact quote was "I am officially quitting…
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Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling
Long story short, I went to Silicon Valley and found angel investors for my Browserling startup that I am doing together with James Halliday (SubStack). James Halliday, our lead investor and advisor David Weekly, and me. Here is how I did it. Last year in March, James offered me to do a startup. He had this idea of...
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The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Patents.
The W3C seeks information about access control systems available before October 2005 and content distribution systems before April 2006 that offer a viable solution that may apply to the use of access requests policy in Widgets . Such information could suggest ways to define a specification that can achieve the…
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Why Google cares if you use your real name
Over the weekend there was a bit of hoo-hah about accounts swept off Google-Plus, because they didn't have the users' real name.
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What Happened to the Future?
We invest in smart people solving difficult problems, often difficult scientific or engineering problems. Here’s why. A. INTRODUCTION The Problem We have two primary and related interests: Finding ways to support technological development (technology is the fundamental driver of growth in the industrialized world)…
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On Succeeding Steve Jobs
A new Apple CEO would need credibility with two highly disparate factions: Apple’s rank-and-file employees, and Wall Street. The only candidates who could satisfy both factions, to any degree, already work at Apple.
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EBay Patents 10-Click Checkout
I'm guessing the Firefox complaint is about bug 453455 ? I saved that bug from WONTFIX but it hasn't been fixed yet :(
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Google Labs Winding Down
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Ewww, You Use PHP?
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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When free markets make it worse: new TLDs
Free markets don't always produce optimal results, or even desirable ones. As entrepreneurs, our job shouldn't only be to create profits, but to do something useful in the world.
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Why Quora is in trouble
Browse 46 free 8 bit GIFs. Download and share them on GIFDB.com — works in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, X and more.
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