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This is something an intermediate who shouldn't really be answering questions would say.

99%? Not even close. A large majority of unanswered/downvoted questions are HARD questions that people can't answer themselves and opt instead to simply post the first link they found after copying/pasting the question into Google.

Often times when answers aren't accepted because they suck and the poster asks further questions or says they're looking for something more that leads to more downvotes because that's what pisses of the community. Being told they aren't good teachers.

Most people answering questions on Stack Overflow are average students who just want the points by again, posting what they find on Google (which RARELY answers the question) or posting a link to a library without explaining a thing which is also massively unhelpful.

Teachers are what's needed. Not brats on forums.

This. The SO community is not very open to newbies and it's very difficult to get a well thought out answer that teaches the issue. Someone asks a simple question and you get a link to a Google search or some sample code that couldn't possibly make sense to the person asking.

Maybe this is natural to answering such questions on forums or maybe it's the results of everyone fighting for points and upvotes. My money is on the latter.

Point is there is MUCH greater value in talking directly to an expert so long as you can get in touch with one which is a tough nut to crack.

I think most users understand how to handle that. Put your cursor to the side.

It's one of those things like don't ever use the text "click here" for hyperlinks because people know what links look like. In the same way, it's OK to implement scrolling on maps like this within the page.

What outbreak?

I made one too. ;)

http://libertyresourcedirectory.com/d/podcastsaudio.php

I think every paragraph has a sentence that explains this to avoid silly comments like this.

Very interesting, of course it only means something if there's someone else experiencing the same thing.

It's fixed now, the thread rehit my RSS feed too.

I've signed up, I always like a rethinking of teaching code online. Honestly, I haven't see anybody do it in a really good way that doesn't just target passive learners or already active professionals. I'm excited to check it out. :)

You're linking to your own thread.

This post is more appropriate for http://www.blackhatworld.com/ maybe you'll find a home there.

I'm sorry, there's no other way I can say this.

Those numbers are idiotic, and it couldn't be more obvious that they're made up. You don't just pay for "sponsored posts" on peoples walls and magically make money.

True enough. This kind of thing is dependent upon the kinds of accounts run by people who will post anything. The kind of thing you ignore.

This is god awful marketing that doesn't work and it preys on those who don't know any better.

Thanks for the answers, it's helpful. I would say though that for the people who this is most useful for (journalists, photographers, etc) they probably don't want to use it.

In order to claim a file they have to send a public tweet for a single file. That's a good way to fill up their feeds with random resources they're using. I think metadata is much more useful for them.

That's not to say the blockchain can't be used to great effect, I just think that there should be a more private way to claim resources. (Maybe profiles linked directly to twitter with a history of uploads.) If I just upload something without claiming it first, it's just some numbers. If I claim it separately on the site, it's no better than just uploading the file to my site before anyone else and therefore having the earliest record of use.

Maybe this has been considered, I'm only thinking aloud. :p

A fine idea, it's certainly interesting. A couple of questions:

1. It only connects to twitter? Why not other options including CoinBase?

2. What do you do with the code that's generated?

This is fantastic.

Maybe I just missed something, but I've never seen a link shortener like this and that surprises me. This seems like the kind of thing that should be on all SEO "Must-Use" resource lists.

Unbox Therapy also "covered" the issue by bending the phone with his hands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM

Snopes is calling it "undertermined": http://www.snopes.com/info/news/iphone6bend.asp

Well done. This is a nice tool.

It's interesting how AWS has shot to the top so easily. Super cheap, sure, it's great for big companies. But I found it too complicated to set up a dynamic website.

I like the idea. I find it really odd that Web Developer is on the homepage but not on the site. (False advertising?)

Not much here, but it's a nice site if it becomes more populated. If you had a feed on these updates I'd like to watch it, but it seems the blog is well... a blog. :)

Major fail to me. I've been working on a similar project for 2 years and this may work in a classroom but going through the exercises it's tremendously underdone for the general public. I don't think this is going to go anywhere which is disheartening because I was so excited when I saw the title of the post and read the article. The actual program is a huge let down.

So no matter what you type in it just display 83.3 years unless you change the average in which case it just converts month to years independently of your birth date.

I tried messing with it and it broke. On the third input it finally displayed an empty calendar and it was impossible to go back.

=/ I don't get it.

Awesome, I'll have to sign up.

Just as a side note, here are a few other interesting podcasts that may not fall into this category.

Intelligence Squared (Debates) - https://soundcloud.com/intelligence2/

Joe Rogan Experience - http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/

StarTalk Radio (Neil DeGrasse Tyson) - https://soundcloud.com/startalk/

Hardcore History (&) Common Sense w/ Dan Carlin - http://www.dancarlin.com/

Rabiolab - http://www.radiolab.org/

Talk Nerdy (Cara Santa Maria) - http://carasantamaria.com/podcast/

The Tim Ferriss Show - http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/

Anarchast - http://anarchast.com/

One of my favorite scenes: http://youtu.be/kwk_Ot8orPY

This isn't mine, but I thought it was awesome.

"Five and six year olds cannot instantly intuit that 27+38 =..."

"... before they've ever had lessons on doing math the mechanical way, carrying the one, etc."

Really? It's not OK to teach the easier way because you don't think it's intuitive (even though it is much more intuitive), but it is OK to teach the harder way that they won't use in upper level math when it's obviously not intuitive? (put one digit at the bottom, subtract one from another, and add three digits instead of 2? wtf? why can't I just add two numbers? children don't have stubborn bias' that cause them to automatically hate everything new)

I don't know if you've noticed but adding 20 and 30 is adding. They need to know how to add? You're not trying.

You're too stubborn to pay attention to yourself and I'm not stupid enough to keep talking to a brick wall.

Sounds like laziness to me, which is of course rampant among teachers.

It does amaze me that googling "common core math" brings up the things it does. Even in a world where we have access to all information, everyone seems to be trying to bullshit everything. I find it very difficult to find the facts on most things.

But when I saw that Khan Academies methods were starting to mirror "The Great Courses" "Secrets of Mental Math"[1] and that it was a part of the common core, I was impressed. Once I started learning things this way, I was better able to handle all math. I used to hate it, dread it. But this kind of thing makes it easy and fun. I'm glad kids are being exposed to it.

[1] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/secrets-of-mental-mat...

I didn't know that, is that universal or only for math? It definitely makes sense for math as you can get close and easily guess. So you can have no idea what you're doing and still get a 70% or so.

Nobody is talking about shorcuts.

You learn by starting with the tens place and moving on to the ones place. LEFT to RIGHT. NOT right to left.

27+38

30 + 20 = 50

7+8 = 5+8+2 = 5+10 = 15

50 + 15 = 65

This is a lightning fast process that you do on paper to understand, and in your head in practice. Carrying, as I've said 3 times now is inefficient, slow, and harms the future possibility of doing well in upper level math.

BTW, I'm no stranger to the alternative media. Hell, I still watch the Infowars feed. (I would also say that the english side of common core is appalling.) But you have to recognize that the stuff is 99% bullshit, just as with the case with FOX and CNN. (Note that math can NOT be memorized, you're dealing with infinity.) These sites pander to a specific audience just like everyone else. Hateful/scared people love hateful/scared sites. Its a shame everyone has to spin everything into something bigger than it actually is.

Just the facts. This kind of math is faster, easier to learn, and easier to do. It's results (already proven) create a higher confidence in math and a better ability to perform at the higher levels. This stuff isn't new in any way. It's the same as using an abacus. (You know, those things they used in old one room schoolhouses where you slide the ones and ten places?) And tell me, how well do you think modern Americans compare to children in the 19th century with math? You sell yourself as someone who might know about a certain book by Charlotte Iserbyt, so I assume you know where I'm going with this.

Check out the Khan Academy site listed in the OP and do a little for yourself. Learn it in order to understand it.

He was also just on The Tim Ferriss Show:

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2014/09/09/peter-thiel/

1. You can't shortcut your way out of not knowing the multiplication table and basic arithmetic. Nobody does this.

2. The "formal way" as you put it is complex and unnecessary. It makes things harder, especially once you hit algebra. If you can't do simple two digit addition in your head by the time you start learning things that involve larger processes like inequalities and quadratic equations you WILL slow down and possibly become frustrated and lose confidence. If you want to get by in these subjects you have to start to depend on the calculator.

But guess what? Now you want to be a computer science major and all of the sudden you have to learn how to graph trig functions and find the instantaneous rate under a curve. Calculators can't help you now. In fact, everything you've just spent 4+ years cheating on must be fully understood at the manual level to even begin to grasp what you need to know now....

What you see in common core is not some magic a genius cabal created out of a Darwinian spite for the rest of mankind. It is an easier process that is used to create a much stronger foundation in mathematics. Nobody is telling kids to not know their multiplication tables, what they are saying is that there is an easier and quicker way to learn math.

That being said, I don't like monopolies and putting one on education is a dismal thing to do. With privatisation (real privatisation down to the accreditation level) you allow different things to be tried rather than one state staying, "This is how things will be done, hopefully we won't all be retarded in 20 years. If not, let's take credit and ignore that thing called the internet. If so, blame the current administration."

If enough people honestly believe "new math" (good song by Tom Lehrer) is the way to go, they can teach it to their kids. If people think what is proven to be better is... well... better, let them do it. When major differences appear in children from the same generation with one group knowing math and another not (like Asia vs. America), there'll be no complaining to do.

An interesting way to advertise.