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by japhyr 10y ago
I haven't spent 5 months in Antarctic solitude like Byrd, but I did live on a bicycle for a year while circling North America. I'd go multiple days without seeing anyone else, sometimes in the desert and sometimes in the forest. I
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by japhyr 10y ago
The Caktus team has a great technical blog with many posts about Python and Django. I've also really enjoyed visiting with their people at PyCon over the years. https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/
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I teach high school math and science, and I've been showing the zoomable budget to students all day. Now it's the end of the day, and staff and students are still coming in to share how much more clearly they understand where our
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What Student Test-Takers Share with Ejected Airline Passengers(alfiekohn.org)
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I'm curious if anyone here regularly codes in a text editor they wrote themselves? I've often thought of coding one for fun, with no intention to share it, just for the purpose of having a long-term project that evolves along with
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Understanding Geographical Coordinates(alanzucconi.com)
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Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers(inc.com)
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Design for Non-Designers: Part 1(hackernoon.com)
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I love openscad, and you can use it to make some fairly complex things if you dig into its nooks and crannies. I love the ability to parametrically define many of the objects I'm interested in printing.
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> A decent full frame 35mm digital will probably beat a film medium format comfortably on colour reproduction, resolution and clarity. But Damnit, film just looks "real" Do you have a clear sense of why film looks "real&qu
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by japhyr 10y ago
many of the comments here remind me of a children's book I read often with my son, called Henry Hikes to Fitchburg [0]. In the story two bears agree to meet that evening in Fitchburg. Henry decides to spend the day hiking the thirty mi
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by japhyr 10y ago
Where did you buy it? Was it used, or new?
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I completely disagree; kids learn a lot by using physical devices, that they won't learn from digital simulations. I think the best we can offer them is a mix of both. Physical devices develop dexterity and attention to detail. For exa
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by japhyr 10y ago
I don't do graffiti often, but when I do this is what I write: ∇ ‧B = 0 I love the simplicity of the equation, and the implications that come from it. (I only write it in places where graffiti has become acceptable, like some hike-in c
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by japhyr 10y ago
I teach high school math, and I incorporate math history informally. I don't teach lessons specifically about math history, but I often use it as context for whatever I'm teaching. For example, if I'm showing students how to
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by japhyr 10y ago
For Python, I really like reading Kenneth Reitz' code. For example the Requests library is pretty good reading [0]. When reading code, I like to have the documentation handy as well [1]. The Django project is also good reading. [2], [3
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by japhyr 10y ago
This is a great idea, if it doesn't already exist. Edit: On a little further reflection, it would be really fun to build. I can imagine a site called something like readgithub.org, which is a dedicated site for reading the code hosted
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by japhyr 10y ago
Wow, I've been using datetime for years, without ever noticing the dateutil library. I'll use this from now on.
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by japhyr 10y ago
I'm competent with strptime(), but this looks really nice: # Automatically parse datetime strings and generate naive datetimes. >>> scraped = '2016-12-16 18:23:45.423992+00:00' >>> maya.parse(s
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by japhyr 10y ago
If you haven't seen Citizenfour, watch it when you have a chance. I already respected what Edward Snowden did, but I came away with even more respect after watching him bring Glenn Greenwald up to speed with what's been going on.
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by japhyr 10y ago
It might not increase quality initially, but it would make a difference in the long run. I know many bright people who don't consider teaching because they can have a much more comfortable life, both financially and bureaucratically, i
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by japhyr 10y ago
I read never made an effort to improve his grades as refusing to do the rote work that schools often require in order to earn a high grade. I've seen so many situations where students pass their tests with perfect scores, but receive
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by japhyr 10y ago
Teachers disliked him, because they knew how easily he picked up information. I'm a teacher, and this is one of the things that frustrates me deeply about our education system. I welcome students like this; they're so much fun t
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by japhyr 10y ago
I understand the sentiment here, but it sounds a little...wishful. Our political climate is affecting all of us in many ways, and we need to process what's happening. We need to do that carefully and constructively. I want to know the
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by japhyr 10y ago
The rise of anti-intellectual politicians and policies makes politics quite relevant to discussions like these. Ignoring the political impact on positive endeavors is wishful thinking.
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Where Unfair Voting Practices Begin(nytimes.com)
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A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change(nytimes.com)
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Trump has nominated Mike Pompeo as CIA director. Pompeo would like to expand government surveillance, and feels Edward Snowden should receive a death sentence. "Congress should pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and
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Trump Turns to His Right Flank to Fill National Security Posts(nytimes.com)
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I don't think the parent was meaning you need more teachers. I think they were saying you need really strong teachers across the board to make this model work well. You need teachers who know their subject areas really well, and also h

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