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Sad news, however how is this related to Hackery?
by lionize 11y ago
Sad news, however how is this related to Hackery?
- lanmanl 11y agoPrepare to be downvoted you clod. HN is about hacking and obituaries.
- TillE 11y agoDavid Bowie was sort of justifiable as a tech person, but this is just weird. HN has never been a general news site.
- footpath 11y agoIf you look up the term "dies" in HN Search, you can find obituaries for all kinds of people submitted to HN in the past, from Gabriel García Márquez to Roger Ebert to Kim Jong Il.
- tempodox 11y agoIf you had ever been to Hogwarts you wouldn't need to ask that. Professor Snape will be missed.
- lionize 11y agoHarry Potter is a poorly written kids fantasy, how does that relate to programming?
- mwambua 11y agoWhile we're straying from hackery... I'm curious to hear your recommendations for well written kids' fantasy.
- lionize 11y agoCS Lewis..look him up
- cuckcuckspruce 11y agoI try to keep Christian apologists away from my children.
- apetresc 11y agoSo edgy.
- cuckcuckspruce 11y agoIt's not about edge. My children are free to make up their own minds about what they do with their lives when they reach an age where they can reason for themselves. Until then, I do my best to keep any ideological or religious influence from trying to exert itself upon them.
- wtbob 11y ago> My children are free to make up their own minds about what they do with their lives when they reach an age where they can reason for themselves. That assumes that reason, not emotion, is the primary motivator, no? > Until then, I do my best to keep any ideological or religious influence from trying to exert itself upon them. 'Be nice to others' is ideology (albeit very weak). I imagine that you don't keep that from them.
- cuckcuckspruce 11y ago>'Be nice to others' is ideology I don't think 'Be nice to others' is ideology. It may be part of an ideology, but I don't think that it an ideology in itself. 'Be nice to others' is also not a totalizing idea in the same way that Christianity is - not everything in the world happens because somebody was or was not nice to others. Christianity takes as its base that everything is/was the will of their god.
- logfromblammo 11y agoNeil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, Katherine Paterson, Madeleine L'Engle, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula Le Guin A lot of the more recently written books my kids read now are formulaic crap, but at least they're reading books.
- esoteric_wombat 11y agoPhilip Pullman's His Dark Materials is a solid choice. It gets dark, but so does Harry Potter, so fair game. I would say late grade school for the first book, adolescent for books 2 and 3. Tamora Pierce has written a number of kid appropriate fantasy books with solid writing and strong female characters. I have seen countless grade school girls get hooked on her work. Some of her books just start to get into more mature relationship themes, but it's enough to embarrass your kid a bit, not scar them. As a child I enjoyed C.S. Lewis, but was personally affronted when I got to the last Narnia book and discovered that good story had been compromised for christian allegory. Lewis won't make your child a bible thumped any more than Pullman will make them an atheist. Just make sure you know what your kid is reading, and find opportunities to discus the material with them critically! Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series is another excellent option. I believe when I read it in grade school I found the pacing too slow, so I skipped ahead a lot and inferred a number of plot points. Nonetheless, I'm certain I enjoyed it the first time, it influenced my view of fantasy literature, and I have returned to reread the series multiple times since. The Hobbit is a great kids book. Alison Croggon's Pellinor series is less well known, but perfect for pre/early teens that love fantasy. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede feature a princess who runs away from home to work for a dragon. Solid writing, strong female characters, Pratchett-esque subversion of fantasy tropes. Fun and appropriate for grade school kids. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones That's off the top of my head. Of these books I consider Pullman, Le Guin, and Tolkien to be literature (worth an adult's time), while the others are just fun and well written.
- wtbob 11y agoC.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit None others really come to mind, although I'm sure that they must exist.
- ruudev 11y agoQuite easy. I expected a title like: Snape (from Harry Potter) is dead.
- rootbear 11y agoWell, it's a stretch, but when I saw Die Hard I just barely caught the BSD reference when they log into the CEO's terminal. I found a screen shot on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/armenws/9516176127/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/armenws/9516176127/ That's a pretty hackerish reference for a film made in 1988 that wasn't particularly about computers or tech. There was probably a BSD fan at the company that created the computer screens. FreeBSD 9.2 had a tribute to this in it's boot screen: https://mebsd.com/make-build-your-freebsd-word/freebsd-9-2-die-hard.html https://mebsd.com/make-build-your-freebsd-word/freebsd-9-2-d...
- ToastyMallows 11y agoDamn you did your research. I approve.
- lionize 11y agoEveryone who dies has probably used a smart phone or the internet so lets start the avalanche!
- mrits 11y agoYour ignorant statement is not even accurate.
- tempodox 11y agoWell, everyone who has ever lived has also died.
- philwelch 11y agoNot me!
- logfromblammo 11y agoYou have that backwards. Everyone who has ever died had previously lived. Besides that, all people still currently living have not died.
- Bulk70 11y agoFrom the guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." I'm a hacker. I found this interesting (and sad).
- panzagl 11y agoHN has gone downhill since they let all the squibs and muggles in.
- aarondf 11y agoI never understand comments like these. It's on HN because someone found it interesting enough to submit. It gained traction because enough someone's found it interesting enough to upvote. I'm not sure much more explanation is required. If you disagree, you can downvote the story and / or not click through.
- Apocryphon 11y agoAlan Rickman played the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book series well-beloved by hackers.
- Angostura 11y agoBut before the book series, there was the Radio series, with Marvin played by the incomparable Stephen Moore