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   by lcall 6y ago

   Two accredited online ones that have interestingly sustainable models, and possible interaction with others, I think: BYU Pathway Worldwide and associated programs. It requires a Church affiliation but not necessarily membership (I think).
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   by lcall 6y ago

   I will try to explain why this is a really harmful, bad idea; that we should help each other, and there are better ways to do it, and that there needs to be the basic incentive of working, in life, to live. To the extent that we remove the
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   by lcall 6y ago

   As children (native speakers), we were aided in learning to read by reading the Book of Mormon aloud together as a family (taking turns, helping the younger ones). I think it helped and familiarized us with not just one kind of English tha
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   by lcall 6y ago

   Compliments on doing this. Another possible one to look at is https://www.justserve.org/ , which is intended to help anywhere (organization can sign up, individuals can see what volunteering opp'ties are available), a
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   by lcall 6y ago

   To the extent that we remove the connection between choices and consequences, we harm everyone. This applies in so many ways. This includes things like lifestyle, including habits, striving to learn & build good family ties, honesty, c
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   by lcall 6y ago

   I wrote here about direction in life. Simple tech; I hope it is skimmable/browseable: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854588981.html . I think direction matters more than speed. Even without a belief in God, but I e
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   by lcall 6y ago

   The "reverse acronym generator". You could put in a few letters and it would return an important- and/or technical-sounding meaning for it.
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   by lcall 7y ago

   Late to this, but this is our son-in-law, Benjamin. Seems he is an effective teacher of 2D game development (godot, gamemaker, pixel art), with good pacing, honest/golden rule type treatment toward customers (and pleasant to be around
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   by lcall 7y ago

   There is a different view of the nature of final judgement. I explained somewhat, in the thread parts following this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22857328 Also, because that judgement involves our choices
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Related prior discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124489 ("Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time (bbc.com") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22096571 ("Ask
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    by lcall 7y ago

    I'm pretty sure the Church is where you are: you can go and see, ask questions in person, etc.
12. 462.▲
    by lcall 7y ago

    Maybe the most important thing you can get from me is that I have learned for myself -- I know it is true, and you can too.
13. 463.▲
    by lcall 7y ago

    You're welcome. Now make good use of it. :)
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    by lcall 7y ago

    To try to answer the 2nd part of #4: Christ is a just and merciful judge, so all will be right in the end, and we will each eventually have the necessary understanding to choose for ourselves. There are different "degrees of glory&quo
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    by lcall 7y ago

    I am not the ultimate authority but will try. I actually think you can find those answers and much more, eventually, via the links at my site including to official and other sources, but: 1. 2nd bullet here: http://lukecall.net
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    by lcall 7y ago

    I like how you put that, and I think I agree with you. I am also extremely grateful for what I know, and for knowing it (per links provided in the other response). If I can be of service in answering questions I will try.
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    by lcall 7y ago

    http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854587400.html It is generated from my own extensive notes, using a tool linked from the homepage: http://lukecall.net General discussion welcome if you like. I especially appre
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    by lcall 7y ago

    My evidence might or might not be persuasive to you, but I did present it (in related comments) in detail. :)
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Thanks. I can assert that I have learned some things for myself. Details at my web site (linked from my profile--it is a simple site and I hope very navigable/skimmable...). Edit: I think I have a great deal of compelling evidence th
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Thanks much for the kind words. (fwiw to anyone: I wrote about how I know what I said. Link is in my profile.)
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    by lcall 7y ago

    I often think about that. It is why I wrote many thoughts about "Maturity Models": the best ideas for any subject (the system being far from ... uh, mature, at this point). But the idea is to take best practices and collate and o
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    by lcall 7y ago

    With any downvotes, I would appreciate a courteous, thoughtful comment. I have not understood the possible harm in what I said, only likely disagreement. Disagreement is OK, but it seems that it could be better to write clearly rather tha
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Wholly agreed. I have no current ambition to actually do it in the foreseeable future. But if someone does I would love to hear about it. And that they do it safely & wisely, with honesty and the Golden Rule etc etc :) Maybe we coul
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Thanks. I edited my comment to clarify that I meant doing it in real life, out in nature.
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    by lcall 7y ago

    I think I had found that one, but didn't actually try it. By multiplatform way, I meant avoiding native libraries (sounds like more maintenance and debugging over time) and still being able to run on OpenBSD (or any BSD), linux, windo
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    by lcall 7y ago

    This is a very cool idea. I have thought similarly, but for a "create current civilization from scratch" game (edit: this is a real-life challenge, not on a computer, and maybe not even as a competition): Start in an empty open a
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Having learned for myself that life has a purpose and there is life after death, with a just judge (and merciful, for the merciful), and that all things will be put in good order (my wording, emphasis on good): that all changes everything,
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Another follow-up about my point #2 above: if scala had done this early on (in an armchair hindsight kind of way), I don't know what need there could have been for Kotlin, and we could be learning one language for both purposes (bette
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Right, it's more of a JVM issue which affects scala. I did a search a while (couple years?) ago and maybe just didn't find the right materials, but they all (in my now-vague memory) seemed awkward and/or were not portable ac
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    by lcall 7y ago

    Thanks. I used Scala for some years and was always drawing on my java knowledge. Are there now good scala learning materials that don't assume java knowledge? And the maintainability issue seems similar to perl vs. python in that way: