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by japhyr 11y ago
Can somebody with a better understanding of investment finances explain how much SeedRamp gets for their investment? I skimmed the agreement, but I don't quite know how to interpret it.
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Ask HN: Suggest an online data visualization course?
1 points by japhyr 11y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
Location: Southeast Alaska My father was a software engineer at DEC in the 70's, so I learned to program at 5 on a kit computer. I've been a hobbyist programmer all my life, but I got pulled into teaching. I've been teaching
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by japhyr 11y ago
You might take a look at Lightweight Django : http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032502.do
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by japhyr 11y ago
How big is your team? I'm always curious to hear how many people it takes to run something like this, at different scales.
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by japhyr 11y ago
I hope you repost this when you've got your first round of stories selected. I'd love to see the quality of writing you receive. How are submissions going?
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by japhyr 11y ago
I'm teaching a high school science class right now called "Are We Alone?" It's a survey class of what kind of objects exist in the Universe, and how we're scientifically attempting to answer the question of whether
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by japhyr 11y ago
I think you could make an argument that many of the people who are loud advocates for gun rights don't understand the nuances of what Snowden did. Many gun advocates are an odd mix of "f the government" and "US is the be
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Huge gas cloud hurtling towards our galaxy could create 200M new stars(independent.co.uk)
3 points by japhyr 11y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
There are some browser extensions available for collapsing comments. Here's one for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap... I'm not sure why this isn't a core feature
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by japhyr 11y ago
I've used Ubuntu for 8 years now, but your description of package groups makes me want to give Fedora a try.
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by japhyr 11y ago
I haven't done large-scale refactoring work before. How does typing help with refactoring? Is it because you know exactly what's being passed into a function?
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by japhyr 11y ago
I found the 24-hour access interesting. Is that something other companies have been doing as well?
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by japhyr 11y ago
> Stack something on your desk to make it a standing desk. This can be helpful if you're worried about slouching over too much. You can be a ghetto as you want here; even a bunch of books is better than nothing. Do pay attention to
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by japhyr 11y ago
This is great. When I go to the new page, one of the first things I look for is articles where a conversation is just starting. This makes it really easy to see which submissions are starting to get some attention.
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by japhyr 11y ago
If you're a Python programmer, Raymond Hettinger's "Beyond PEP 8" was pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
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by japhyr 11y ago
Is Tony Hawk on your network, or is that just an example?
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by japhyr 11y ago
People making intentional, reasoned end of life decisions is beneficial to society. Viewing death as something to put off as long as technologically possible is not a universally good thing.
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by japhyr 11y ago
I just turned 43. At times I can't hold in my head the notion that I could die today, or I could live another 60 years. The only answer is to live fully each day. My heroes are people like these. Live a full and active life, and accept
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Alaska's commercial fishing industry just had its first year with no deaths(adn.com)
2 points by japhyr 11y ago|1 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
My father's death taught me to finish the things I start. He was a software engineer in the 70s and 80s, and he taught me how to program when I was a little kid. When he died in 2011 I went through his computer, looking at the projects
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by japhyr 11y ago
I believe almost everything in the public education "stack" should be open. That would go a long way toward equalizing the opportunities available to students and staff in public schools. There is plenty of funding available for e
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Take Pride in Your Code(unwiredcouch.com)
1 points by japhyr 11y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
What do you mean by "polish the moon"?
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by japhyr 11y ago
> The darker patch at the center of the image is likely a dirty block of water ice “floating” in denser solid nitrogen, and which has been dragged to the edge of a convection cell. I love that we (the public) are still getting regular up
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by japhyr 11y ago
This kind of post can not help for finding a new job.
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Closing the Farm-To-Table Gap in Alaska(nytimes.com)
2 points by japhyr 11y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
I had an interesting experience with alcohol growing up. My parents were pretty strict, so I didn't go to drinking parties in high school. I didn't get drunk for the first time until near the end of my senior year in high school.
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by japhyr 11y ago
> For example, let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the process. That's much more likely to work than attacking wealth in the hope that you will thereby fix poverty. This seems like a pretty healthy mindset t
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by japhyr 11y ago
My advice to new programmers is completely opposite this. I recommend that people learn Python 3 and use it until they have a specific reason not to. Most new programmers can work with Python 3 and never run into difficulty. If someone need

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