yeah you can only get in with a student idea, and up to 7 times a year without one. I think it's a real shame because they have an amazing collection of up-to-date periodicals in there. Basically, any major newspaper & magazine from around the world is available the day after publication in the home country. Not sure how relevant it is in the age of ubiquitous online publications, but it's still nice. The green library also has a fabulous collection of old books.
I think it's a great idea! It definitely has issues, but keep at it because it's a great start. Here's another feature idea: when I'm using xcode, i don't want other distraction to come in; so maybe find a way to make it harder for me to open browsers and other distraction (i see you, hn & reddit).
I watched without the subtitles and had no idea what it was about; nonetheless, i got to listen for 5 minutes to a language i never heard before and it was beautiful!
the thing i hate about windshield fliers is that there rarely is a trashcan nearby. Thus, being respectful of the wonderful bay area we live in, i end up folding it up and putting in my backseat or cup holder. It stays there for weeks until i go through the annoying stage of picking up all the miscellaneous stuff laying around in my car.
This idea may have a lot more impact than anyone may possibly conceive today. "infrastructure" company rarely get the credit, but they are a true catalyst for innovation. I think clever is one of those and I really hope their work change education and help others change education. A truly laudable goal!
I think it's a matter of personal taste. Since all the examples used to display the bar, people probably had a tendency to include the black-bar without thinking too much about it. However, nothing prevents you from building a very functional site without it (I know i have).
Either way, huge prop for the awesome work! The new doc is simply excellent and the whole framework is just remarkable, particularly if one considers how far you guys have pushed it in less than a year.
I've always been fascinated by the societal implications of "i think therefore I am" when demonstrated for mammal other than humans. For one, can one justifiably continue to eat their meat if we consider the reverse role, where we would exist, consciously so, only for a superior species to consume our flesh for nothing else than it's nutritional value.
I love bootstrap. Yeah, i hate the fact that all the mvp's out there basically look & feel the same by using it as the go-to css framework, but at the same time it's helping people iterate a lot faster and that's rarely a bad thing.
In addition, given how Twitter's bootstrap's look & feel is starting to influence web design at large, I wonder if there is a case for other large web-players to make their own css framework to impact the look and feel of sites to their favor. Think of it as disguised propaganda.
What a refreshing blog-post. Last night, I stumbled on cnn story about the Rich Kids of Instagram Tumblr snapping vintage shots of themselves high-rolling in G6's and throwing money on Moet like there's no tomorrow. The funny thing is that as I browsed through the pictures, I thought to myself: "God, that's the last type of lifestyle I would ever want." Instead, I spend my days and nights in a silicon valley garage, programming, reading, thinking, taking walks with friends and drinking green tea. And you know what? I find happiness in that. The little things that I cherish are so inconsequential in anyone's else life, and are yet so full of meaning and healing for me. Glad to see i'm not the only one out there thinking this way.
This, unfortunately, is not even that bad when compared to the litany of bad, overloaded, eye-scorching powerpoint presentation I usually sit through in research group meetings, conferences, and more. Maybe all intro courses in STEM should include a course on communicative design.
Actually, I was surprised that the number is that low... but maybe it's because i'm around techies all day and tend to consider the fuzzies as cute, inconsequential thingy that hang around our campus like butterflies do around a pond :)
Mehan Sahami. Eric Roberts. Julie Zelenski. Jerry Cain. (bonus: keith schwarz). Look no further for explaining the rise in popularity and quality of the Stanford CS intro course. I had the privilege of sitting in the class of each of these guys and they were all respectively the best professor/teacher I ever had. Period.
Oh, people do fail. They just withdraw, keep attending the course, and retake it for a grade the quarter after. As long as they get the subject eventually, it's all that matters, right?
Anyone in the bay area interested in building better tools for researchers? I did materials research at Stanford and was stunned by how tech-backward most sectors of academic research can be.
if we can't get our shit together to connect SF to LA with what amounts to 40-years-old-bullet train technology, what makes this people think they can get this crazy stuff done between NY and LA?
sounds a lot like my research group meetings. Lots of fascinating stuff. Zero chance of ever making it out of the lab in the near future.