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by anifow 3y ago
this is an excellent step towards the useability revolution, interesting to see how long it will take to permeate to a standard for high-school and undergraduate students to get to real work faster and in a more interactive way more reactio
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by anifow 6y ago
This is not a revolutionary idea. Several professional programs (law, accounting, etc.) have certification exams that do just what you are describing. It seems to require a fairly healthy, non-profit professional body in order for this to w
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by anifow 9y ago
As a Mac user, I have to agree whole-heartedly! I was a pretty heavy OpenFL devotee for a couple of years. It's an amazing project, although PixiJS is a very competent competitor when it comes to building HTML5 games. Pixi has a much s
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by anifow 10y ago
Also, HaXe is the only viable technology which enables a high-quality canvas-based applications which mirror native applications (while also permitting compilation to those native applications).
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by anifow 11y ago
Words like "debt" can be tricky to pin down, which is why we have an accounting profession who's job it is to establish a cohesive and consistent language system with specific meanings. Kickstarter money represents both reven
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SpaceX Falcon Lander Sim – Built with Scratch(whatsupgang.com)
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by anifow 11y ago
That's what it looks like
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by anifow 11y ago
This was open-sourced a while back. Looks like they hollowed out the repo though. Is that bad etiquette? https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad
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by anifow 11y ago
More appropriate to call it a questionnaire than an interview.
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by anifow 11y ago
We have a perfect solution for the kind of publishing model which Brett is referring to, which operates in sharing and replication rather than central repositories which are historically prone to snuffing out. Just use Bittorrent. Bittorren
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by anifow 11y ago
It seems the problem is that the author is trying to create a representation of knowledge, whereas research papers are more of a logging of work done. His approach may be a perfect fit for an experiment in meta-research. You could run perio
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by anifow 12y ago
I disagree. An hourly wage is a very special payment system which requires some kind of foreman to be sustainable. Otherwise, the labour industry tends to drift towards inefficiencies that allow them to claim money for less work. This is cl
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by anifow 12y ago
Gentrification is happenning in Toronto outside of the downtown core, albeit very slowly. The main effect is you have families cashing out and moving further and further away from the city to put the real estate price differentials to good
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by anifow 12y ago
I may be of assistance. Send me a PM
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by anifow 12y ago
Yes, the author is pretty off-the-mark and I would say misleading. Here are some scenarios worked out with www.numbercanvas.com Early Retirement, Average Lifespan: $1 million Early Retirement, Long Lifespan: $1.5 million Average Retirement,
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Ask HN:internet Woes
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A Whole in the "Cascading" of CSS (stackoverflow.com)
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On National Internet Filters: A Metaphor for Internet Neutrality(github.com)
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by anifow 13y ago
For those not in the know, Galton invented the simplest way of understanding normal distribution. Here's a copy you ca ceck on your phone. www.intromath.ca/aakkozzll A quote from Galton: http://www.aakkozzll.com/do
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by anifow 13y ago
The way I see it, political power grabs are simply a continuation of wealth accumulation. Money is limited in its value, but it's the best universal proxy for value that we have so people often equate them. It's better to see mone
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by anifow 13y ago
Here's another take on it, albeit more for financial computations. Includes a formula preview: http://numbercanvas.com/
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by anifow 13y ago
If you are willing to spend a little time with it, this might help give you a more intuitive udnerstanding: http://intromath.ca/aakkozzll/ The trick is to keep in mind that in this model, each ball has a 50/50 chance of either going left
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Show HN: Number Canvas - A modern calculator(numbercanvas.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com)
1 points by anifow 13y ago|1 comments
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New iPhone App encourages Classroom Activity for Stats/Math(itunes.apple.com)
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by anifow 14y ago
I work for a company in the Canadian academic publishing industry. In Canada, it is illegal to require students to pay for their own testing. By law, those textbooks which come with the Access Code for an online quiz are not allowed (if the
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by anifow 15y ago
Sorry, that's been solved. There are efforts to implementing this exact network of fuelling stations (battery swapping) for electric cars, and Better Place is a shining example from Isreal: http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_