Thanks, some nice additional resources, the advanced shayhowe lessons look good for explaining the concepts around bootstrap which will be useful for a novice rather than just diving straight into it.
Thanks for the smashing magazine link, should be worth exploring. While the MDN resources are great I was looking for more interactive tutorials. I'm hoping the gameification format used by codecademy will pull him in. Experince tells me his enthusiasm is inversely proportional to my own, so I'm hoping he can catch the bug without me having to walk through it with him.
You can provide him an IDE setup to give the errors. Sublime Text can be set up with plugins that provide immediate feedback about code errors. Just select a few for HTML, for CSS and for JS.
Thanks, this looks good, and it is close enough to free, I was just trying to avoid 12 week immersion code schools for $1000s. That may be an option later but just testing the waters first.
Thanks, this looks pretty similar to codecademy, have you done the courses? Any reason in particular to choose this over codecademy? I guess he can try the free ones and see if he finds additional value.
I have done a number of the CodeSchool ones, they are a video tutorial followed by an interactive code editor thing like Codecademy.
The difference is that Codecademy doesn't have the video beforehand (you read the instructions and do the exercise), vs. CodeSchool which gives a bit more of an in-depth explanation then you do the exercise.
I guess it comes down to which method of learning your stepson prefers.
TLDR
oversimplifying article is overly simple and gets things wrong and doesn't consider others.
The rules are simple: a user submits a link and title, the community upvote and downvote this submission.
Yes the rules are simple (they're actually not but they can be simplified), but yet the article seems to have gotten them wrong, submissions don't have downvotes.
I starting skimming after that, it appears the metric he's using is number of upvotes, this is NOT the relevant metric, posters are looking for exposure - what they want is a position on the front page. While those things are linked they're not the same. Would also probably want to take into account pageviews on weekends vs. weekdays as this affects exposure. Maybe it correlates to votes/no. of submissions, but maybe more people passively consume on weekends or weekdays.
As for the metrics, being on the front page seems to drive less motivated traffic. When a user upvotes the link, he cares. When the link gets to the front page, users click it because it's on the top, not because they're interested.
Hence, sales or whatever, but one should be interested in upvotes as the indicator, not the front page.
I disagree, if you're wanting something to "go viral" or whatever 100 upvotes at a busy time, when there are 30 other submissions with over 100 in a similar timeframe is not nearly as useful as 100 upvotes on say Saturday morning when there are less submissions and less voting activity.
This is why others have done analysis on the "best time to post" they're not trying to gather upvotes they're trying to be on the front page for as long as possible... actually maybe that's a bad assumption on my part, I figured this was about an eyeball funnel, perhaps people are karma gathering? if it is the latter then absolutely upvotes is the correct metric.
Personally, I think the focus should be on creating something great and let that be what drives the upvotes, if its about getting internet points, umm I've already spent too much time discussing something I don't care about.
Voting activity is proxy for reading activity. I don't have evidences that Saturday posting has more exposure than weekday posts given nearly the same upvote performance.
Agreed on making something great as the end. But delivering the product to the audience is important for niche products. Then factors like time, website, text become important (when they matter).
from the FAQ:
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I guess that would depend on your definitions of "product", "successful" and "heavy".
Realistically if they are in a position to leverage any bundling - why wouldn't they?
Because leveraging bundling is illegal, if the bundled item is a monopoly, in both the US [1] and the EU. Further, leveraging their search monopoly in such a way as to juice other products is to the detriment of users: if the product deserves a given space in the search results (where deserves means would rise there without bundling), it should rise there on its own, or there is a better alternative that should have been there instead. Hence user harm.
Would anyone really consider AppEngine successful? I hear so many support horror stories, only one poorly supported open source project to try to move off to without recoding to different APIs, and the price is ridiculous compared to other cloud providers...
You're either very confused, or you have a much deeper understanding of physics than me. I love that it could be either.
Does the conservation of momentum apply to things with no intrinsic mass?
Yes. You can define a special-relativistic momentum and it's a conserved quantity, and it does have a nonzero value even for things with zero rest mass (which necessarily move at the speed of light).
(It may help to observe that an object with nonzero mass moving at the speed of light would have infinite momentum, and then it maybe makes sense that "zero times infinity" becomes a finite number)
Indeed. That's the idea behind things like solar sails, for instance. Check out the article here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure
and scroll down to "Radiation pressure by particle model: photons" if the top is confusing.
The "coming apart" of American culture isn't because too few people watch NASCAR or eat at Applebee's, it's a problem because in one America lots of people do it and in the other America people never do it. It's slowly creating two separate cultures where people have trouble relating to each other because they're growing up with two distinct sets of cultural experiences. It's only incidental that the divide in culture is being driven by meritocracy picking the haves and have-nots.
I'm not surprised you found the results unimpressive, since Britain has a far different history with class and mobility than the United States. I was impressed with how the questions ascertained that I'd grown up in a rural area then moved to a wealthy suburb in adolescence. Things like going to parades, eating at Applebee's, or going fishing were strongly present in the first half of my life and completely absent in the second half. I crossed a major divide in American culture without even realizing it.
I'd argue that there has always been this divide, or similar divides through the course of US history. There's a rural/urban divide which has slowly but inevitably moved in the direction of the urban side throughout the last 100 years. There's a rich/poor divide which I already referenced as haves and nots. There's an educated/uneducated divide which closely mirrors the wealth divide.
None of this is anything new.
You seem to have some beliefs about US history which I don't share. I don't believe in the myth of upward mobility in the US, while there are certainly examples of this, the story is oversold. I don't believe the society is as meritocratic as it is made out to be. The biggest predictor of a person's success is their parent's wealth.
I'd also argue the fact that you apparently crossed this major divide in American culture without even realizing it suggests that maybe you didn't cross a major divide of anything at all.
This is without even going into the immigrant/religious/racial divides that exist. We aren't going to have a homogenous group of 300m people - this isn't a bad thing, and it isn't a new thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect