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In the middle of a butterfly crisis, California sees a burst of painted ladies(latimes.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
People were using Ruby and Python (and before that Perl and PHP) on the backend in many cases. I think it's likely that those are the kinds of projects which are using JS on the backend now, while the Java and C# people are continuing
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One of the strongest known solar storms blasted Earth in 660 B.C(sciencenews.org)
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Bili Apes – Giant Lion-Eating Chimp (Chimpanzee) Subspecies(scienceheathen.com)
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World’s Biggest Mass Child Sacrifice Discovered in Peru(newsweek.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
I should have thought of it before, but it occurred to me that Hokule'a (the canoe) has been all over Polynesia, so they had to handle sailing east for part of those trips. This led me to this article about their first trip to Easter I
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by curtis 8y ago
I had to look "shunting" up -- I'd heard of it before but then forgotten. The big oceangoing voyaging canoes like Hokule'a are double canoes so they are symmetric, unlike outrigger canoes. There still might be an advant
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by curtis 8y ago
I don't think shunting buys that much. The crab claw sail is still limited in how close it can sail to the wind. It's always going to be easier sailing when the wind is favorable. And it turns out that in some parts of some yea
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by curtis 8y ago
The winds in the South Pacific predominately blow east to west. Since Polynesian voyaging canoes have a very limited ability to sail into the wind, it seemed impossible for them to have colonized Polynesia from west to east. This appeared
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by curtis 8y ago
When Nainoa Thompson was learning/re-inventing Polynesian navigation one of the techniques he used was too spend time at a planetarium where he could learn what the skies looked like at different latitudes.[1] [1] http://arc
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by curtis 8y ago
You can dispense with the backslashes if you put the entire if-expression in parentheses.
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Archeologists find hidden tunnels below Alcatraz prison(ctvnews.ca)
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Norwegian Cruise Line passengers hurt when ship tilts in face of 115 MPH gust(cnn.com)
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Boss charters helicopter to find employees in tree over crocodile-infested river(abc.net.au)
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Sears is sued over 'Craftsman' brand(reuters.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
Further training might be required, but if there's a shortage of trained HVAC people, an employer might prefer to hire someone that already knows something about the field, and who happens to know a bunch of other stuff as well (becaus
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by curtis 8y ago
I'm inclined to think that there ought to be a four year college degree that teaches a number of different trade skills as part of its core curriculum. A student in such a program might take history and mathematics courses similar to
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by curtis 8y ago
> Why is that a problem? Why is it something to fix? Why do we want to achieve perfect 50% ratios on people's motivations and desires? I personally don't think it's a problem. The disparity in computer science is so big
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by curtis 8y ago
> Not all girls want to code, and not all girls want to take a STEM path, and that should not be see as some failure. It's also true that not all boys want to code, and not all boys want to take a STEM path. But what if a larger p
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Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeologists(nationalgeographic.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
> I think a good first pass would come from studying analytics from npm. What are the most used packages? The most stable? I think it would also make a lot of sense to look at what's in the Python and Ruby standard libraries.
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by curtis 8y ago
You've identified the problem, but I think you're wrong about the cause. It's not internet centralization that's the problem, it's the mundane fact that JavaScript does not have a large standard library. And JavaS
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatin : > Chromatin is a complex of DNA, RNA, and protein found in eukaryotic cells. Its primary function is packaging very long DNA molecules into a more compact, denser shape
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by curtis 8y ago
Seeing the piles of accumulated paper tape does actually illustrate an interesting question: How exactly is 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA folded up in a human cell?
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I wonder if the right thing to do is to simply give interviewees a choice between whiteboard interviews and take home tests. I seem to be in a minority, but I personally prefer whiteboard interviews over take home tests, but I can easily u
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SpaceX launches Crew Dragon spacecraft in first-ever demo mission(cnn.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
I wasn't sure what RubyMotion was. If you are also wondering, here's what Wikipedia [1] has to say: > RubyMotion is an IDE of the Ruby programming language that runs on iOS, OS X and Android. RubyMotion is an open-sourced com
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2k-Year-Old Tattoo Tool Found in a Washington Storage Closet(gizmodo.com)
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A strange-looking fish washed up on a California beach(cnn.com)
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Simulated Mission in Chilean Desert Shows How a Rover Could Detect Life on Mars(gizmodo.com)
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