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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm in Sitka, AK. Nice to know there are some other HNers not too far away!
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by japhyr 12y ago
Where are you? I'm at 57deg north, and I totally agree that getting outside is important when you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark.
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by japhyr 12y ago
I have a four year old. :)
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by japhyr 12y ago
These days I go to bed around midnight, give or take half an hour. I get up anywhere from 5:00-6:30. If I can get to bed around 10:00, I wake up at 4:00 or 4:30. I can't remember exactly what happened when I first stopped using the ala
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'll put in a plug for ditching your alarm clock. I was a terrible snoozer for years. At my worst, I went through a bad progression: I moved my alarm clock across the room, so I'd have to get out of bed to hit snooze. I got so I c
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by japhyr 12y ago
My kid will turn 4 in March. It's much better these days than when he was an infant, but there are still many interrupted nights - dreams, peeing, just coming in to say he's awake. It's sweet; I wouldn't give it up for t
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by japhyr 12y ago
I have a t420s, and replacing the DVD with a bay battery was a very worthwhile trade.
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by japhyr 12y ago
I wonder if the cultural shifts - the pivotal moments in history - were more significant between 1955-1985, than 1985-2015. Between 1955-1985 we had the civil rights movement, the moon landing, the Vietnam War, and the final decades of the
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by japhyr 12y ago
I grew up in the 80's and saw the original Back to the Future in a theater. When I was a kid, I remember thinking 1955 was ancient history. It's pretty wild that young people today, like the high school students I teach, feel the
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by japhyr 12y ago
What has O'Reilly attempted in regards to social engineering?
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by japhyr 12y ago
Can someone compare this to Django/ Flask? Would building a project with Falcon be similar to building a project with Flask? This looks interesting, but I'm not well versed at evaluating a new web framework. I've built a few
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by japhyr 12y ago
I wonder if you could build in another method as well, that isn't dependent on a second person agreeing on the purchase. Maybe something that would put in a time delay on any purchase screen. A 24-hour delay on clicking submit for a pu
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm familiar with C and Java, and I can build viable projects in Python/ Django. To expand my understanding I'm looking at Go or Haskell next, although I might take a quick spin through Rails to see how it compares to Django.
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by japhyr 12y ago
His work sounds easy enough to test: hang a weight in an electric field, and the weight moves farther than it should. Has there been any effort to independently test what he claims to have discovered?
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by japhyr 12y ago
This is particularly true in math, as it is presented in many schools.
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by japhyr 12y ago
If you do submit to HN, don't get too tied up in whether it gets any attention or not. Plenty of quality submissions slip by without rising to the front page. That said, it's really fun and enlightening to see a high-quality conve
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by japhyr 12y ago
Your English is not "bad". There are some technical grammar issues you'll continue to work out, but the meaning in your writing is perfectly clear. That makes it pretty easy to overlook anything that's not quite correct
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm not sure I would do any of this, but it's certainly an interesting writeup. I particularly enjoyed the part about watching Michael Phelps, and realizing he was burning extra calories because he was spending time in cool water
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by japhyr 12y ago
I'm not sure you know how difficult some administrators can make it for people to teach well. Teaching is hard enough, when people who have power over you actively get in your way and set you up for failure, that's pretty difficul
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by japhyr 12y ago
My kid will turn 4 this spring, so I've been dealing with fragmented time constantly for the past few years. It's been frustrating at times because I have tremendous mental energy, but can't get much done because I can rarely
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by japhyr 12y ago
I sure appreciate pip being included in Python 3.4. It's nice when writing tutorials not to have to provide instructions for how to install pip, so the user can then install packages.
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Ask HN: What project are you working on over the holidays?
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by japhyr 12y ago
As I'm working on a project, I keep an eye out for the insights that arise which make me able to complete the project. If any of these insights are not entirely obvious, I note them as I continue working. When the project is done, I co
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by japhyr 12y ago
He's right, burning out in your job and staying in that job makes people age quickly. Life is too short to be stuck in a miserable job, if you can do anything about it.
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by japhyr 12y ago
That sounds good, but it sounds hard to show that to a potential employer and impress them. Have you built anything with what you've learned? I'm 42, and I performed unimpressively in an interview two years ago. That gave me some
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by japhyr 12y ago
I definitely think more freely with pen and paper than when I'm sitting at a keyboard. I have no idea if this is innate, or because I grew up in the 70's and 80's and learned to write by hand. I do feel fortunate to have lear
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by japhyr 12y ago
One of the most significant books I ever read was A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins. He graduated college in the 70's, wasn't sure what to do, and decide to walk from New York to the Pacific ocean. This book covered the fir
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by japhyr 12y ago
Have your parents come around at all on this, or do they think you're getting paid to do things they don't approve of now? Please don't restrict mediums. Restrict activities. That's a great way of putting it.
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by japhyr 12y ago
There's an emphasis on words and stories with books that's difficult to emulate fully with tech. I talk extensively with my son about what we read, and about what he does on the ipad. Those conversations are similar, but qualitati
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by japhyr 12y ago
That's a really important question. How much exposure to books do they currently have?

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