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by ht_th 7y ago
Yes, crash landing into people, building, trees, and other traffic is a concern. But automation is not enough, we also need standardization and synchronization, because I am not looking forward to a future where the whole sky above a city i
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by ht_th 7y ago
True, but usual you do not start with a large and successful software company. I think starting a small software company is much easier than getting a job at Google. However, growing a small company into a large and successful one will be s
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by ht_th 7y ago
If the state of public libraries is anything to go by, no. At least here in the Netherlands, most public libraries that are still open, have reduced their book shelf capacity in the past couple of years and added study spaces, conversation
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by ht_th 7y ago
> Can you illustrate that in practice? I have walked out of interviews as well. Sometimes the interviewer and I discover together that the recruiter we worked with didn't know their job, at all! More often, though, it sort of was cl
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by ht_th 7y ago
> The only pre-20thC buildings that remain are the ones that survive. The ones that survive are the ones we like and that are able to survive (not plywood and well built). Unfortunately, the city I live in has been burned, bombed, or oth
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by ht_th 7y ago
> But in a 1 day like the national championship I really do not think that such verbal agreements are valid at all. That would be the case if each rider would have the same chance of winning and each rider would be there to win. However,
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by ht_th 8y ago
Awesome! I've had a lot of fun last year building my own "virtual botanical laboratory" in JavaScript (see https://heerdebeer.org/Software/virtual_botanical_laboratory... ). It is based on the book "
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by ht_th 8y ago
Although European cities do exists for way longer, for most cities, that's only true for the small city center. The larger newer parts have been built in about the same period as most USA cities: the 19th and 20th century. Since the 19
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by ht_th 9y ago
> Do people not have Black Widows where they live? Nope. I think the most dangerous animal you'd encounter around here is the tick, which is related to the Lyme disease it might carry.
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by ht_th 9y ago
Nothing. It is quite common to do it like this here in the Netherlands. Of course, once we have a new employee and after a couple of months we think she is a great addition to the team, we will start negotiate for the permanent contract imm
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by ht_th 9y ago
What's the difference? The intention of employing them is to offer them a permanent contract, but if things do not work out, firing people is hard. So, we almost always have three stages when we employ someone: - one-month trial period
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by ht_th 9y ago
True. I've never been asked these kinds of "knowledge" questions in any interview. Nor have I asked them of any candidate. To me, interviewing is more about finding a fit to the company's and team's culture, than to
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by ht_th 9y ago
For these type of task, pandocomatic supports preprocessors, postprocessors, filters, setup scripts, and cleanup scripts in its templates. For your specific issue, and this is a general pandoc solution, filters with side effects could work.
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by ht_th 9y ago
I am using pandocomatic¹ to generate my website. It uses pandoc² to convert all kinds of input files to HTML output and pandocomatic is controlling that conversion. Applying it to a directory it converts, copies, or skip everything recursiv
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by ht_th 9y ago
Sure. But I was more thinking about people who directly work indirectly for the government, such as cleaners who work for a company that has them clean (the same) government offices (all the time). There are a lot of similar supporting serv
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by ht_th 10y ago
> Why do we have to only get to calculus or pre-calculus concepts so late and why is it so extreme like it is all or nothing? I agree. I did some research on teaching the concept of instantaneous speed to 5th graders. Building on their i
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by ht_th 10y ago
Our hacker space has been meeting for years now. We are guests at the office of a foundation that is doing work related to art, design, society, and technology outside of their office hours. This makes the space very affordable. Twice a wee
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by ht_th 10y ago
I am hosting a hacker space twice a week, on Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. Although these are certainly social events, I do make sure to spend at least half my time there working on one of my free software projects. As an added
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by ht_th 10y ago
> Anyone can fire-up a word processor and produce interesting looking documents and flyers. Actually, even this is harder than it seems. Having worked as a teacher, I saw many teacher create their own materials. They created handouts, pa
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by ht_th 10y ago
I've also a web interface at https://heerdebeer.org/Software/symbol2unicode/converter.htm...
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by ht_th 10y ago
I've created the program symbol2unicode¹ for that. You can enter ascii representations of a symbol, say ->, and you get the unicode symbol (→). It has a CLI interface and a web interface. I keep it always around in a terminal tab an
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by ht_th 10y ago
No (and yes). I think that if foreigners are motivated to integrate in the local society and culture, they will find a way to do fine. If that motivation isn't there, I doubt any of these cultural courses and workshops will help much.
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by ht_th 10y ago
Well, if taken out of context supplied by the author of the article, "This is not your word" could be interpreted as an observation that there is a phrase that does not fit the style of writing of the piece as a whole. That would
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by ht_th 10y ago
Agreed. And I would even go a step further. Most often ed (tech) companies focus on education as opposed to learning. It is all about efficiency, organization, administration, and improving conventional education or schooling processes rat
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by ht_th 10y ago
> I'd be curious about scenarios like: > > - Practice identifying the semantic bug in a 20 line snippet of code. How effectively would practicing this help a person identify real bugs in actual code? For a couple of years I&#x
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by ht_th 10y ago
I do not disagree with you on humanities' progression in SG1, but I'd think that all these mayor shifts in technological advancement would have been better explored in separate series rather than in one big swooping race to the ma
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by ht_th 10y ago
That is the thing about (good) teachers: they have a lot of pedagogical content knowledge (Fachdidaktik). They know what questions to ask to what student at what time in her learning process. They know what examples, metaphors, strategies,
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by ht_th 10y ago
Agreed. Just tell a good story, take the time it needs, and be done. In my opinion, long-lived series tend to become repetitive and formulaic, escalate beyond measure because somehow there always has to be a new bigger bad (I am looking at
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by ht_th 10y ago
Dijkstra worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum (mathematics center) in the 1950s. He was responsible for most of the systems programming of three subsequent machines that were build and used there. His PhD dissertation (1959) w
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by ht_th 10y ago
They're bikes. Good to get from a to b like any other bike. During my daily commute from and to work I think about one in ten I pass / pass me is an electric motor supported bike. It seems that mostly elderly people are riding the

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