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February 11 2012

I've called Alex Peake "the prototypical hacker" before. He's now raising money for continued development of Code Hero, a 3D game that teaches programming, on Kickstarter. Alex and his projects make the world a little bit better – so check it out, chip in and spread the word!

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February 09 2012

“ The future of our economy depends on the rebels succeeding: At every point in the last forty years, wealth, health, and happiness in our economy has been built on the freedom to disrupt the entrenched powers, not the preservation of their rent-seeking monopolies.

It will be the same with the RIAA, the MPAA, Intellectual Ventures, and everyone else scheming to enthral the people with digital “rights” management and criminal prosecution of “file sharing.” In the destruction of the monopolization of ideas lies the seeds of another revolution, one that will bring wealth, freedom, and jobs. ”

— I have a bad feeling about this - raganwald

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February 07 2012

→ www.facebook.com

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“ If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.
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— Aza Raskin

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Tinycon - Favicon Alerts

"allows the addition of alert bubbles and changing the favicon image. gracefully falls back to a number in title approach for browsers that don't support canvas or dynamic favicons."

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February 06 2012

“ Self-esteem is central to learning: How you react to failure and your own progress (or lack thereof) defines the way you learn. Kids who are afraid of looking stupid, of being compared to their peers, and of having to work hard without the promise of success are the ones who are branded as lazy, unimaginative, or just 'stupid', when in fact they are just afraid of trying hard. ...

Most of my students had no idea that math, like weightlifting, is supposed to hurt a bit. They thought that heavy, stretching sensation you get when you learn new concepts meant they were stupid, that they couldn't do math. They didn't realize that everyone feels that, if only briefly. If you're in the bottom third of the distribution, and a third of people are, you never get to the other side of that feeling before the class moves on.

The answer isn't magic teachers. It's for kids to learn that learning is possible. ...
[This is one of the advantages of] Khan Academy, [with] the ability for the student to replay the lesson over and over [on their own terms]. ”

— Khan Academy discussion @ Hacker News

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“ Start every day as a producer, not a consumer.

[When you] start with what you really want to do, distractions [will] start to feel like a waste of time. You check Facebook just to make sure you're not missing anything important directed at you, but scrolling down and reading random stuff in your feed feels like a complete waste of time compared to what you're really doing today. ”

— aceex @ Reddit

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February 03 2012

The Daily Show brilliantly trolls a Florida congressman who supports mandatory, self-paid drug testing for welfare recipients. From yesterday's particularly good episode.

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