Kholo

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by Kholo 9y ago
I agree totally agree. This is the same org that told us Bush was right about WMDs, whose reporters didn't know what a CDO was when the financial collapse happened, and spent three years unable to believe Trump could win the election.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Where are the numbers? What is the speed up? The effort that goes into these posts without addressing the basics always boggles my mind.
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by Kholo 9y ago
It's a nice feel good story that gets funding. It's not replacing teachers, mentors and schools anytime soon.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Wikipedia and Khan Academy.
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by Kholo 9y ago
People not just children need supervision and guidance when it comes to information going into their heads. It is why whichever culture you pick across the globe, "education" involves having a "teacher" figure around. Th
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by Kholo 9y ago
For a family of 5 that sounds like a pretty good deal.
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by Kholo 9y ago
True. Good to remember the American Internet is not the Internet. It's fascinating how this debate plays out in other countries with a certain class of citizenry that don't have the capacity to think for themselves. Even if the IS
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by Kholo 9y ago
Do you use the bandwidth? Just curious what you do with it.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Yup they are just doing what big corps do at this stage of their lives - empire defense.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Stone age tools as Chomsky calls them. The problem with simple to use tools, is the simplicity masks two key facts from the user - whether aptitude for the tool exists & amount of effort and time to mastery.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Camille Paglia is a someone worth paying attention too on the changing roles of men and women, on what we loose and what we gain - https://www.c-span.org/video/?425137-2/camille-paglia-discus...
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by Kholo 9y ago
You should talk to a experienced shrink or a psychologist about what the best outcomes for her might be. Sounds like she is dealing with what they would call traumatic attachment. Best outcomes for the individual won't be intuitive in
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by Kholo 9y ago
Public perception has nothing to do with it. The Russians and Chinese don't care about public perception. Why aren't all their rockets using nuclear propulsion? This is very expensive research. Nuclear propulsion is definitely goi
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by Kholo 9y ago
This stuff has been studied for a long time and is still being studied - https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/ntrees.html So I don't know what you are raving about.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Complete BS. This is what happens when you have top class PR at your disposal to define the narrative. Microsoft is responsible for their shit software getting exploited first and foremost. Seriously fine Microsoft and by day after tomorrow
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by Kholo 9y ago
Thanks for link. Didn't know this was possible. Also will try your wrapper approach.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Superficial as in all I want is the two numbers to be printed out at the end. Why do I have to go look at flame charts and timelines? Boggles the mind. If you look at the documentation of what I am actually interested it is time-timeEnd or
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by Kholo 9y ago
I found this talk with Niall Ferguson and Samantha Power pretty fascinating about the US - China power balance changing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yghOc-lMIM Just one mindblowing fact from the talk - China has poured m
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by Kholo 9y ago
Ya but that's like a get out jail free card. I have been through their stuff. It's very superficial. JavaScript has all kinds of implementation dependent mechanics when it comes to promises/async calls/recursion. And whe
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by Kholo 9y ago
Yup I would agree from what I have seen end up happening at schools that are given tech but don't have the long term resources to utilize it right. Ideally you pay attention to the people who have done some teaching and know something
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by Kholo 9y ago
What's the best way to benchmark perf optimizations in JavaScript. I see lot of articles like this with no time and memory usage stats. I would like to hear an answer from someone who has experience using gdb or visual studio while st
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by Kholo 9y ago
Did I say stop using them? Distribute risk. Use multiple accounts. Don't handle all work/financial stuff on a single account. Keep work and personal accounts separate. Reduce the number of hours you spend online being a data milc
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by Kholo 9y ago
Good time to remind folks that gmail, facebook, whatsapp, amazon etc aren't going to be able to protect their data forever at the levels they currently are capable off. A couple of bad business decisions and they are where yahoo is tod
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by Kholo 9y ago
Checkout Moonwalking with Einstein And Anki
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by Kholo 9y ago
Find the things that are in your nature. Do it to the best of your ability. That's how things like the Taj Mahal get built. It's not just about instant gratification.
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by Kholo 9y ago
There is a good Micheal Chricton interview somewhere out there where he says meaning is just a post facto story we learn to cook up over time. You ask a 5 year old WHY they want a particular thing and all you will get is BECAUSE. Over time
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by Kholo 9y ago
I'd say learn to work hard at whatever it is that interests you. Everything follows from that. If you haven't learnt how to work hard put yourself in environments with people who do.
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by Kholo 9y ago
Kiwix does. But you have to download the dump and run a couple scripts to convert the XML to kiwix archive format (ZIM). They have a repo on github with the scripts. But Kiwix is built on top of xulrunner which is basically Firefox but not
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by Kholo 9y ago
Hey opera folks who might be reading this - work on simplifying offline access to web content. I want to be able to maintain ~100 GB of offline data store, full text searchable. Wikipedia, stackexchange\stackoverflow, khan academy, zealdocs
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by Kholo 9y ago
Their investors don't know what else to do with their cash. Getting rich and doing something with the riches involve two different skill sets that most people can't master in one life time.

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