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by japhyr 11y ago
Good and Bad Procrastination - http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html I love it; it always makes me feel better about putting aside some obligations to work on really meaningful projects. I share this with students some
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by japhyr 11y ago
I teach high school, and in one of my classes a student ran an investigation where she asked for volunteers to abstain from using facebook for one week. It was a really interesting experience. Most of the adults I mentioned this to assumed
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by japhyr 11y ago
This is one of the most entertaining kickstarter videos I've seen. I like the blend of specific technical information and just plain fun; I want a paper airplane drone that makes me feel like a lion riding a t-rex.
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Switzerland Wants a Single, Universal Phone Charger by 2017(motherboard.vice.com)
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I enjoyed the film. I saw the original Star Wars in the theaters as a kid, and the nostalgia at the opening sequence was surprising and overwhelming. It put me in an odd mental space for watching the movie. I agree with most other commenter
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Have you seen The Boy Who Loved Math? It's a bio of Paul Erdos written for kids, and we've really enjoyed it. http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Loved-Math-Improbable/dp/15964...
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NBA lends its name to campaign against gun violence(nytimes.com)
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Here's a facebook album of a fun trip in our backyard: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150281130499708.... And here's my flickr set, which I haven't added to for a while: https:/&#
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by japhyr 11y ago
I live in southeast Alaska, so I run in the woods with bears. I run two or three times a week, and I usually don't see any animals. But once in a while, probably 20 or 30 times in the last ten years, I run into a bear on the trail. The
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Unfinished Projects: One last programming lesson from my dad(peak5390.wordpress.com)
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The No Starch page is at: https://www.nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse The code for the book is available at: https://github.com/ehmatthes/pcc/
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Show HN: Python Crash Course
3 points by japhyr 11y ago|1 comments
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We have a bunch of laptops at school running Windows 10 with Edge. Students can't copy and paste into Google Docs while using Edge. Was this a deliberate choice by Microsoft to steer people away from Google products, or is it something
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You might try a more neutral term like "violent person". This was an interesting incident to introduce this around, because this is a rare female shooter. You probably picked that term without thinking about gender. But now you&#x
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I hope you launch after reading all these encouraging notes. Will you please let us know how it goes?
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. I appreciate the perspective on what it means for large test suites, and why it's beneficial to think about this in early development stages as well.
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I just got around to skimming the release notes, and I'm curious about running tests in parallel. I'm looking forward to upgrading, and seeing if this has a meaningful impact on my tests. I don't have a large number of tests
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by japhyr 11y ago
Do you know how well cookiecutter-django [0] handles email logins? I've been meaning to play around with cookiecutter, but I haven't started a new project recently. Cookiecutter uses django-allauth [1], which seems to offer email
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by japhyr 11y ago
This is great to hear. I learn a lot from watching how the Django team brings critical third-party projects into the core of Django.
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I just started watching videos from this year's PyCon Australia [0]. Russell Keith-Magee, a core Django developer, gave an interesting talk called "Money, Money, Money - Writing software in a rich (wo)man's world" [1]. I
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by japhyr 11y ago
Side note: RevSys put out a Django cheat sheet a while back, which was given out at PyCon. Whenever I step away from Django for a bit and start to get rusty, I pull out the cheat sheet as I'm getting back up to speed. It's helped
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I teach high school math and science, and I often give students assignments that ask them to develop their own questions. I make a point of telling them we won't be answering all of these questions; some of the best questions would tak
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Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
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What was the most interesting place you visited?
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How advertising ruined the rickroll(peak5390.wordpress.com)
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This article was really helpful for me in developing a better understanding of ISIS. I found the dependence on possession of land particularly interesting. That fact seems particularly important in any global strategy for taking power away
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Ask HN: Want to talk with a group of high school students?
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I shared this because the issue is affecting my area as well as SV, and I'm sure many other areas as well. I live in southeast Alaska, and our housing costs are some of the highest in the country as well. Here it's a mix of factor
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The battle to save Silicon Valley's oldest trailer park(theguardian.com)
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That sounds like a bad version of the group projects many of us hated in school. As a teacher I never assign group projects for their own sake. If something makes more sense being done in a group, we do that. If it's better done by ind

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