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by jawns 4y ago
I have 3 kids between 7 and 12. Both PCs and Chromebooks have parental controls that are okay but not stellar. For PCs, Microsoft lets you set up profiles for your kids where you can specify what apps they can access, and for web access you
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by jawns 4y ago
One of my earliest memories of writing code was playing Gorillas, a QBASIC game, on my school's PC in the early 90s. My friends and I would tweak the source code to make the gravity stronger or weaker, or make other interesting mods t
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by jawns 4y ago
One reason why I prefer the classics (Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc.) is that a lot of modern mystery authors think they need to be both mystery writers and comedians. The voice of the narrator, if not the chara
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by jawns 4y ago
I could see it being the case if the person believes that at its core, our own human sentience IS really just advanced matrix multiplication (or other purely material processes, i.e. we're all just fleshy mainframes). So, such a person
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by jawns 4y ago
> while Jesus Christ never gave to abortion the slightest mention Did the U.S. Constitution give abortion the slightest mention? No, the right to abortion was inferred from a right to privacy, which was inferred from several amendments t
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Kellogg's to separate into 3 public companies(prnewswire.com)
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I joined in 2010. I visit the site, on average, 4-5 times a day. Things HN has done for me: * Gotten me a job * Helped me expand my technical skills * Helped me promote my books and side projects * Entertained me * Kept me up to date on te
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by jawns 4y ago
It's ironic that each page of Merriam-Webster's site tells you how to properly cite it so references to its definitions are properly attributed ... yet it does not cite its sources for these "first time used in print" da
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by jawns 4y ago
The primary distinction is whether they're hired directly by Duke as a contractor, versus whether they are employed by a consulting company that is contracted by Duke. If they are hired as an individual, definitely second-class citizen
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His argument about digital watches did not age well. My kids have known how to understand a digital clock since they were toddlers, but even now, in elementary school, they require entire lesson units in school on telling time from a clock
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Petrichor, the pleasant scent from rain falling on dry soil(en.wikipedia.org)
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Delta to begin paying flight attendants during boarding(apnews.com)
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I'm the author of four nonfiction books, none about programming and none self-published, but I think some of my experience still holds. You're doing market research. That's great, and it's a step that a lot of people neg
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It happens about once a year for the 15 years I've had my emails set up that way, and as far as I can tell, 90% of it has been hacked systems rather than sales. The worst was when spammers got ahold of my email from a hotel chain and w
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by jawns 5y ago
My kids have a habit of shouting, "Dad joke!" whenever I make a groaner. The other day, my wife made a great pun, and my son said, "Dad joke!" "No, it's a mom joke," she clarified. Then she educated them.
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Column's website says the company is "100% founder and employee owned." I'm curious about that ownership structure. I'm assuming you're not organized as a worker cooperative, with a "one worker, one vote&
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I'm a member of a large Slack group that has a bot that corrects un-PC language, including any mention of the word "guys." What I find interesting is that the biggest proponents of dynamic language -- the idea that usage evol
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by jawns 5y ago
Most important Slack etiquette ... Don't @channel large channels after hours!
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The boys who wear shorts all winter beg to disagree with the premise: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/01/why-some-...
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If this architect was that wedded to LEFT only, one would think he would have been outspoken about why. Most of the great programmers I've known have had two characteristics: They'll tell you very confidently about what you SHOULD
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I agree with you. One of the reasons why I think this happened for me in college was because I found some very accepting groups of people with whom I could unite around a common goal, in an almost pre-professional environment. But there we
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Not only was I awkward and shy -- but I was an extravert! I wanted to be around other people and got bored easily when I was by myself. But I didn't necessarily have the social skills to pull it off. So I was pretty miserable. Wha
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by jawns 5y ago
Sean Paul Reyes of the YouTube channel Long Island Audit is another good example: https://www.youtube.com/c/LongIslandAudit He has multiple videos of himself engaging in constitutionally protected activity -- filming i
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Here's how I address this problem. When I'm developing, but before I create a PR, I'll create a bunch of stream-of-consciousness commits. This is stuff like "Fix typo" or "Minor formatting changes" mixed
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I am willing to pay $5-$10 a month for a service that provides quality suggestions for low-price subscription SaaS businesses.
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Infinite Tree(joshdata.github.io)
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Instead of a 'Manager Readme,' Consider a 'Manager WIP PR'(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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Charity Majors: Let's talk about OpenTelemetry(twitter.com)
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My career path was 10 years in journalism, during which I was also programming as part of my responsibilities, and now 11 years in full-time software development. Under Daily's levels system, I'd have 11 years of "direct&quot
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One way to think about the popularity of locked-room mysteries is to think about the popularity of knock-knock jokes, or any other joke with a similarly well-worn setup. Precisely because it's well-worn territory, the low-hanging fruit

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