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by _theory_ 6y ago
This sounds like a modification of the JAMstack idea.
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by _theory_ 6y ago
This is a great idea. I've personally benefited from using Python as a way to experiment with other disciplines and wish there were more such resources out there.
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by _theory_ 6y ago
Maybe the easiest way to lift the standard of conversation is to start with a community of vetted members, much like a scholarly journal doesn't allow just anyone to publish. I'm not saying its an exciting way to go about it, but
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by _theory_ 6y ago
I'd say HN is the right place to be.
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by _theory_ 6y ago
Gosh, I could press that button all day.
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by _theory_ 6y ago
Exactly. The cost and time of transportation would seem to far outweigh the cost of a home office in the long run. My main concession might be the cost associated with paying for high speed internet, if much of that bandwidth is going to b
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by _theory_ 6y ago
When I try to buy something on Walmart.com, sometimes I get to the checkout screen before it informs me that the item can only be picked up at a physical store. If I wanted to see such items, I'd go to the physical store.
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by _theory_ 6y ago
If this sort of thing appeals to you, you might enjoy Poor Charlie's Almanack, which can be found on archive.org right now for the low, low price of free: https://archive.org/search.php?query=poor%20%20charlie%27s%2...
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by _theory_ 6y ago
Now I'm curious: if you read A Song of Ice and Fire after watching Game of Thrones, would that sully your view of the Unsullied?
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by _theory_ 6y ago
Electric VTOL for the masses: basically flying cars. https://www.agilityprime.com/
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by _theory_ 6y ago
How far down the abstraction tree do you go before something is 'pure'? Programming on the whole is at a much higher abstraction level than ever. Maybe what people are really looking for is simplicity, but this changes depending
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by _theory_ 6y ago
This was fascinating all around - both for the means by which he optimized OKCupid for himself, and for the the insights about women that it yielded. He was able to type women in to 7 clusters, but that 7th cluster ('diverse') co
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by _theory_ 7y ago
Seems to me this is like tagging, but instead of making the tags at the end of your thought, you're annotating words within your writing, which become the tags. I grant you that it is more intuitive to do it this way.