lukewrites

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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   Mine is "The Internet With A Human Face", by Maciej Cegłowski http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm It's what I direct non-technical people to when they ask what the big deal about in
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   Vanguard recommends it, lots of folks on Bogleheads.org seem OK with it (they tend to recommend a three fund portfolio), but Vanguard founder Jack Bogle has said he thinks a two fund portfolio is sufficient because the US markets list big i
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   Thanks, I'll check out the website.
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   I'm looking for a junior dev position. Does the state hire many junior people?
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   I try not to use my debit card for two main reasons: fear of fraud and lack of rewards. While I believe my credit union would reimburse me if someone were to steal my debit card information and use it to make a bunch of crazy charges, that
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   > After a few years I did not need much "training wheels" and could continue to increase proficiency regardless. Every teacher's dream outcome. Congratulations! :)
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   Out of curiosity, does this mean that you didn't have any English lessons in school? I ask because in the field of Second Language Acquisition there's a pretty strong consensus that the optimal path to language learning involves a
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   Absolutely. If you want a democratic workplace, form a co-op. If anyone's interested in reading about cooperativism in the tech world, a starting point is http://techworker.coop/ I can't think of many tech compani
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   by lukewrites 10y ago

   Here's a link to that series: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-structures-alg... What's impressive about it (to me) is that, unlike other Coursera series & courses I've looked at, there
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    It's crazy how hard it can be to follow conversations on twitter, and seems like a huge loss. To do better, I think twitter should look at how Sina Weibo does it. Weibo started out as a complete rip-off, but wound up coming up with som
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    (If I could edit my original post, I'd change "better off" to "should also". I didn't mean to say that the use of lists and an algorithmic news feed is an either-or proposition.) I agree with you, and think you
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    I think twitter would be better off embracing lists. I follow relatively few people because of the firehose effect. My attitude towards the people I follow is that I like seeing their tweets, but I don't really care if I miss them. New
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    Here's my anecdote about taxes and finance in China after spending ~5 years working there. I have a number of friends there who are entrepreneurs/small business owners in China. Over the past few years, they have regularly been &q
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    I am about a third of the way through Django By Example and would also recommend it for someone who has gone through the Django Tutorial and is looking for more. I've found books by Packt Pub to be of variable quality, and DbE does hav
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    Beijing covers a very large area, including isolated (if not deserted) country roads and massive amounts of highway. It's much more likely that they drove in a rural area (or in a deserted corner of Zhongguancun) than on any road insid
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    I have found a couple of tor browsers on the App Store: [Red Onion]( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/red-onion-tor-powered-web/id... ) and [Onion Browser]( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app&#x
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    The USPS started operating at a loss because Republican lawmakers passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, signed into law by George W Bush, requiring the USPS to prefund retirement benefits. http://about.usps.com&#x
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    by lukewrites 11y ago

    I love CheckIO and can't wait to play with this! I'm an elementary school teacher, and this past semester I taught programming to 4th and 5th graders. We progressed through Code.org to independent Scratch projects to writing Pytho
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    China's “Great Cannon” is being use to attack WPKG(reddit.com)

    2 points by lukewrites 11y ago|0 comments
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    by lukewrites 12y ago

    > went wrong with Tesco? They blew £1.5 bn trying to expand into China, and £1.8 bn trying to expand into the usa.