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by japhyr 7y ago
Recently someone on HN recommended Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan. I'm almost finished, and it's been a wonderful read. I love reading about the development of early programming languages and computing environme
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Barrow (Utqiagvik now) has daily jet service. Try Selawik or Angoon if you want to see if free shipping applies to remote villages.
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That's a good suggestion. I'm in Alaska, to be specific, and I was thinking of looking down south. I'll try to find someone in-state first.
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My son is 8, and yesterday he came home from school and said, "I'm not above grade level in math." He sounded a little disappointed, but not too much; he also seemed to be asking if that really means anything. We had a really
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I live in a small remote town, and I'm very unlikely to find an accountant familiar with tech work here. Any advice on finding a good accountant remotely?
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It feels like the word "hacking" is losing more and more meaning over time. In the beginning it was a word only people heavily into computers used. Then around the time of War Games it became a more commonly-known word, and connot
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Are you free to create an entire program, or just a course? The way I'm reading it, I think you're able to create an entire program. If you have decent technical support, that's an amazing opportunity. I was looking at starti
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Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
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He got into origami a few years ago, and has a bunch of books and supplies that he keeps going back to.
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We got him the Turing Tumble [0] last year, and he loved it. He'll take years to work through all the challenges. I found The Boy Who Loved Math [1] years ago, and now he reads that on his own. [0] - https://www.turingtumble
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Ask HN: Any math-focused gift recommendations for kids?
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NFL Veteran Vontae Davis Quit the NFL Midgame(espn.com)
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Of course innate capacity has something to do with how much or how well any individual student can learn. But there is a world of difference between a well-run school and a poorly-run school. In the simplest comparison, a well-run school is
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I would argue that a well-run school addresses many of the items on this short list. I learned most of these in my schooling, and I saw most of these things being taught in the reasonably-run schools I have been a part of in 25 years of tea
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An sqlite database is a single file. So backing it up is as easy as copying that single file to an archive directory.
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As an atheist, I take quite a different approach. There is no God with an ultimate plan of good, so the only ones who can address "unimaginably horrible" things is us. Yes, in the end nothing matters, but in the present and near f
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I have certainly taken the internet's infrastructure for granted at times. Can someone who follows this more closely say something about how this is likely to play out? The profit motive is helpful in some areas, but it can just wreck
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Thank you, that’s the first concrete reason I’ve heard. It also explains why I haven’t run into issues yet using my own aliases.
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I understand how this was needed historically, when using the official installer might overwrite the Python you already had installed. But as far as I know, you can download an installer for a new version, run it, and it doesn't touch
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A year and a half ago I bought a base-level 13" mbp with 8G ram, 128G ssd, and no touchbar. I have really enjoyed using it, and I fortunately haven't had any keyboard issues yet. I've been toying with the idea of upgrading fo
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Everyone seems to be telling you not to spend money, but you already sound pretty grounded in that. You are right not to start spending $300 on jeans and $100 on shirts, because those areas of your life are good enough. You don't want
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I've only had them for a couple days, and I haven't listened carefully to many speakers in a long time, or ever really. So I can't really say too much specifically, other than they sound significantly better than anything I&#
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Yes, I've seen that evolutionary decline in other subs as well. There seems to be a general increase in photo-based submissions, and fewer substantial discussions. People seem to think the photos will inspire discussion, but they often
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Here's the post I made this morning. I'm happy to answer any questions you have, here or over on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/BudgetAudiophile/comments/dq5d9c/i_...
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Oh, absolutely. People occasionally post videos demonstrating really unsafe chainsaw operation, or demonstrating really inexperienced operation. Those videos are quickly downvoted, or even better dissected for what the person is doing wrong
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That's one of the great things about a good subreddit. A good subreddit, for me, often ends up helping me to know how to spend a reasonable amount of money in that area and come away with high-quality products. I have been lurking on r
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With base jumping, you really need to separate out general base jumping from proximity flying. For anyone unfamiliar with the sport, base jumping implies jumping off of something and then deploying a chute. This may or may not involve a win
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> If I brought my driving attitude to motorcycling, it seems reasonable to believe that I'd be at much lower risk than the typical, weaving-in-and-out-of-traffic sport-bike rider. With motorcycling, there are a number of factors tha
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Beginner's Python Cheat Sheets(ehmatthes.github.io)
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I built an HN clone in Django called Educator News [0], but I couldn't figure out how to get meaningful traction. It was really interesting to build, and implementing comments was one of the few times in my life where I've used re

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