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by joeclark77 10y ago
I wonder if the cost isn't mostly due to manufacturing labor. A good look-over by someone experienced in Lean production might help them map their value streams and get the cost way down. I suspect part of the reason they're going
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Yes! Star Trek's time travel episodes have been notorious since the 1960s. Back to the Future is great, but very much belongs to a certain generation. Doctor Who is a British series, not very well known in the USA. Not everyone wou
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Does the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) count as a time machine?
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by joeclark77 10y ago
The problem with that is that in most cases, one of the two of you will be more talented and get more traffic, resulting in the other guy getting flamed by commenters, etc. For example Sean Hannity's show used to be "Hannity and
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by joeclark77 10y ago
What you're describing is a blog. I wouldn't wait a day for it, since the blogs I follow provide links and commentary within hours. The challenge is to find one that isn't a one-trick pony, i.e. isn't just about one to
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Good idea. I definitely don't want them "filtering" my results without my permission, but with permission is fine.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
The "bangs" make all the difference. Just this morning I used !ups <tracking number> to track a package. I use !w (wikipedia), !gm (google maps), !gi (google images), !yt (youtube) and !a (amazon) all the time. Less often
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I think the touch of human labor has a value of its own, especially in high-end manufacturing and services. If high tech automation allows us all to have precisely perfect mass produced tables and chairs, for example, the value of handmade
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by joeclark77 10y ago
How do you know you can't get a job? Have you tried to apply? Don't be frightened by job postings. Employers tend to ask for the world, including things like requiring 5-10 years of experience in a technology that's only b
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Published my first e-book -- https://leanpub.com/data-engineers-manual -- and made my first sales. 37 paying customers so far, and I just got my first "review" (an encouraging tweet) the other day. Not bad for d
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I think the reason for bringing JS to the backend is that you have to learn it anyway for the front-end, so why not save developers from having to learn two languages. One language = easier learning curve. At least in theory, it sounds re
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Flask. Mainly because I do a lot of different things with web frameworks. Sometimes I'm serving a straightforward web page, sometimes I'm querying a database and rendering a template, other times I'm wiring up a json API, an
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I want that last sentence on a coffee cup. Or tee-shirt I guess, but I have too many at the moment.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
His bio says he's in Austin, which is in (or at least surrounded by) Texas.
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What's an open source hardware project, exactly? I'm not being dense, it just has a buzzwordy feel and I'd love some more precise definitions or examples.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I tried Pelican for my blog a while back, and the biggest problem was that I'd forget the syntax of the blog file, and the sequence of actions needed to publish it, if I went more than a day between blog posts. Useful for a profession
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by joeclark77 10y ago
As I scan this article I can almost see Gartner's hype cycle in the background. This is exhibit 1 of a "trough of disillusionment" following a "peak of inflated expectations". 2-3 years from now, look for the &quo
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Ford
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It was a long wait, without the benefit of a cryo-chamber, but worth it. Vindication is far and away the best of the series for me. I suppose it'll be another year or so before the next is out.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
John C Wright's "eschaton sequence": Count to a Trillion The Hermetic Millennia Judge of Ages Architect of Aeons The Vindication of Man (and one more to come) It's a combination of hard sci-fi and space opera,
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by joeclark77 10y ago
How about this. A crossword puzzle generator. The user enters a keyword, a person's name, or a date, and your program generates themes, words, and clues associated with that prompt in the newspaper archives. So for example, if I ent
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Clarify: you want to analyze newspaper data? Or you want to do a machine learning project that would make a good newspaper article? Or you want to write a how-to ML article that fits into your newspaper?
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I'd like a blend of Svbtle and Medium. Svbtle is the perfect blog editor interface, and I like the way it displays code samples. (Medium's lack of support for syntax highlighting without the GitHub Gist widget is a dealbreaker f
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I would use Flask, not Django. I recently had to help a beginner with some Django code and found it inelegant and unintuitive. Flask, by contrast, is simple and straightforward. The setup is four lines of code, and each URL is a Python f
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I think you make a mistake in assuming that a child can only learn what the parents can teach. Especially when you consider that our society calls us "children" even up to age 18 or 21, many years beyond the traditional coming of
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How about Idaho or Nebraska...?
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You could rewrite that as, before public schooling, we had competent adults who could start families and businesses of their own at ages 13, 15, 17, etc. And we've replaced that with a system designed to babysit "children" u
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I think the people downvoting you are unconsciously identifying with the children. Those of us who put ourselves in the parents shoes in these scenarios are upvoting!
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Sure, it may be a hassle, but that's no reason not to do it. The more people homeschool, the more powerful their political voice will be. And compared to most other developed countries, the U.S. is pretty friendly to homeschoolers (v
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This is why I love HN, for the #Lifehacks. I may use these on my kids...

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