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By 2015 Interns We sent an email out to all of the 2015 interns in early November, shortly after they had left KA. The email said that we were hoping to write a blog post on our intern class, and …
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By Kevin Dangoor In his New Employee’s Primer post from July, Riley Shaw wrote a little about our Teams Initiatives Projects (TIP) style of thinking about our development work. Here’s a …
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By Craig Silverstein Bundling JavaScript files The traditional advice for web developers is to bundle the JavaScript files used by their webpages into one or (at most) a few "packages." Multiple tools …
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By Benjamin Pollack Khan Academy recently made the decision to migrate our team chat from HipChat to Slack. As a team, we’re incredibly heavy users of ChatOps, and with so many of KA’s employees …
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By David Wang When my first piece of code was reviewed at Khan Academy, my mentor Dylan prefaced his comments with the following: (Kamens’s post here, Tom’s post here) And to be honest, I chuckled …
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By Chelsea Voss If you’re trying to bring the best learning experience to people around the world, it’s important to, well, think about the world. Khan Academy is translated into Spanish and Turkish …
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