Turadg Aleahmad

"Clearly the word "open" has been accepted as "open access" not "open source". There's no changing that the term MOOC will be used for closed content. Is there another term that would signify open _content_? Libre MOOC is explicit, but lMOOC can look like capital-i MOOC. oMOOC?" - Turadg Aleahmad

"Thanks for this! I'm looking forward to your future post. In the meantime I noticed some stuff has changed, like bower.json instead of components.json. I wrote up my experience in this StackOverflow question and answer, to make it easy for people to update as new info comes up. http://stackoverflow.com/quest..." - Turadg Aleahmad

"Thanks for this post! I wrote up my experience with Bower so far, building on this post: http://stackoverflow.com/quest..." - Turadg Aleahmad

"Thanks for this. I made a simple drop in support file for it, https://gist.github.com/turadg..." - Turadg Aleahmad

"yeah, definitely at some point. we can set route.rb ignore it" - Turadg Aleahmad

"The most broadly useful technique I've encountered and used is mindfulness meditation. Practicing mindfulness can shift the balance of power from your amygdala to frontal lobe. Meditation can be hard. It's not simply relaxation; it takes intense focus to be still. Accordingly it can be much more transformative than simply learning something. Still, there are a couple idea that spring to mind as important. The main one is: you are not your thoughts. I think a lot of computer-y people (like myself) get stuck in Cartesian dualist thinking that thoughts exist in some space, and our bodies are vehicles for connecting these thoughts with other thoughts in the world, mostly through language. You're not a ghost in the machine. You are part of everything. As for how to live, a big issue in the information age is how to spend your attention. It's the most limited resource in your life. An important principle there is: put first things first. Stephen Covey describes most approaches to time..." - Turadg Aleahmad

"MacChester, it's not a zero-sum game. There's plenty of helping people learn to go around. (A lot more than any single institution can do.) Besides, this isn't from MIT. It's from highly motivated learners. That's the exciting thing. But really, I'd like to understand: Do you think one place Stanford's apparent success should deter others?" - Turadg Aleahmad

"Great development!" - Turadg Aleahmad