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Calculus Is Impossible on Rainy Days(data.khanacademy.org)
7 points by stchangg 12y ago|0 comments
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Inequality is not inevitable(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by stchangg 12y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript Styles from Worlds Past(medium.com)
2 points by stchangg 12y ago|0 comments
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by stchangg 12y ago
Yipes, I don't want to discourage anyone from applying. I think I was a special case of desperate/underqualified. That's why the process took me so long - I had to catch up big-time, and was extra paranoid about giving this m
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by stchangg 12y ago
Thanks! That means a lot to me.
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by stchangg 12y ago
> Did you have to prepare for that? Yes, I found it valuable/important to study basic data structures and algorithms before my interviews. Specifically, I read Wikipedia articles and worked through problems in Programming Interviews
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by stchangg 12y ago
Thanks for the comment! Hm, I'm not sure what school you went to, but an ECE degree at Duke is not like an EECS degree at MIT. It leans much more towards the electrical engineering side of things, and very, very few of my peers (in fac
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How I got a dev job at Khan Academy without a CS degree or dev work experience(stchangg.com)
41 points by stchangg 12y ago|10 comments
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by stchangg 12y ago
I'm another dev at KA. Just wanted to chime in that we're also hiring general (not just mobile) devs, data scientist-engineers, general product designers, and interns in all of the above categories!
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by stchangg 13y ago
I'm a female developer w/ a EE degree, but mostly self-taught wrt coding. My parents were nontechnical, but I was lucky enough to have my own computer and a good internet connection starting around 4th grade (8-9 yrs old). Feeling
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An Invisible Burden(stchangg.com)
1 points by stchangg 13y ago|0 comments
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by stchangg 13y ago
Thanks for sharing. After reading the Mercury News article, I googled around and pulled up the following piece by Businessweek. It's longer but more detailed, and, IMO, better written. http://www.businessweek.com/articl
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Getting your team to adopt new technology(bjk5.com)
5 points by stchangg 13y ago|0 comments
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by stchangg 14y ago
Congrats, Jamie and team! As a Khan Academy developer I can attest that this was a substantial technical undertaking. "While it's possible that within, say, 10 years, internet access will have reached near global ubiquity, that shouldn't st
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by stchangg 14y ago
FWIW, a friend of mine graduated in this cohort. She has a physics degree from Duke, and back when we were freshmen together, was considering majoring in CS, among other technical majors. I'm not sure how representative she is of the batch,
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Crowdsourced Khan Academy CS Challenge: Modeling Accretion Disks(khanacademy.org)
1 points by stchangg 14y ago|0 comments
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by stchangg 14y ago
Is it really so counterintuitive? I think PG is making it out to be more complicated than it really is. Solve a big, annoying problem for lots of people. Dropbox was obviously a great idea; look at how much trouble people went through to sh
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Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century(cra.org)
1 points by stchangg 14y ago|0 comments
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by stchangg 14y ago
Hi zhemao, thanks for the comment! I'm a Khan Academy developer. I just wanted to add that we do hire educators. Among them are Beth and Steven who are our in-resident art history faculty ( http://www.khanacademy.org/about/the-team ). We
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Developing your first Khan Academy exercise(blog.stchangg.com)
42 points by stchangg 15y ago|7 comments
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by stchangg 15y ago
Awesome! But.. why comic sans in the signup?
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by stchangg 15y ago
I just bought a domain from Name.com yesterday (in an effort to escape from GoDaddy) and I'm surprised at how nasty their interface is. These big registrars really try to make their users suffer.
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by stchangg 15y ago
Thanks!
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Ask HN: $800/mo room in female hacker(ish) house
4 points by stchangg 15y ago|2 comments
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by stchangg 15y ago
Awesome! I had a similar idea -- will email you. Just a note, in case the primary motivator for getting a house is cost: most of the time, apartments are cheaper per bedroom than houses.