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by mbubb 11y ago
"Teachers are hard to find" - Prof Curran makes a similar point in a recent podcast from "Talk Python to Me" It is training teachers not only coding skills but the process of doing something in front of a class where you
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by mbubb 11y ago
I am coteaching an afterschool club - 9-11 yrs. 12 boys and 3 girls. I am not a professional teacher so the materials on the MIT site are very helpful. In addition I have a NoStarch book which I recommend. My last class: https://
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by mbubb 11y ago
I co-teach a local after school club using Scratch. Kids are 9-11 and they are very much into it. The school has in classroom Chromebooks and we use the online scratch.mit.edu . That works nicely - we have an hour and try to teach some basi
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by mbubb 11y ago
I agree and in general this article is out of touch: "Hand in hand with bootstrapping attitudes comes the belief that poverty should be a life of suffering—which leaves no room for owning computers and smartphones, setting up Facebook
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by mbubb 11y ago
Wow - still a bit painful to remember my first go around with this. What i am about to admit is damning enough to keep me unemployed for the forseeable future so hopefully no hiring managers are reading this... I was a sysadmin and did the
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes it is a radical simplification of the data center setup that allows for the scaling to design this.
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by mbubb 11y ago
I guess it depends how close to bare metal you want to get. Google/Facebook/AWS (and maybe a Backblaze) have architected their data center setup to not require the functionality that Netapp provides. If you buy a NetAPP and plug i
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by mbubb 11y ago
No I think that they are using drives with a specific purpose and do not need enterprisey functions. I think they mean drives that are the quality of the WD black drives, it looks like them in the one picture. The types of drives that you m
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by mbubb 11y ago
Fascinating stuff. My guess is that they were definitely aware of the weight tolerance of the floor and the tiles but looks like the weak spot was the canister wheels on the bottom of the rack. I wonder how they eventually got it out. They
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by mbubb 11y ago
This is my rifle, DataElixir http://dataelixir.com/issues/33?#start DevOps Weekly http://devopsweekly.com/ Ansible Weekly https://devopsu.com/newsletters/ansible-weekly-newslette
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by mbubb 11y ago
I remember reading that. At the time my absolute favorite novel. Its beautiful. He's a great great writer. The short stories. "A Certain Lucas"; "Around the day in 80 worlds" but nothing quite like Hopscotch. Jumpin
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by mbubb 11y ago
Yes - took 2 Joyce seminars back in college and never got through more than excerpts of FW. Funny process - at first you think Ulysses is hard, and it is, but you get used to that world. FW is dense. Another work which always seemed made fo
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by mbubb 12y ago
Agreed - you do feel dirty after reading this. Also waiting for the other shoe to drop and here it is in the byline: David Brooks is an Op-Ed columnist and the author, most recently, of The Road to Character, from which this essay
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by mbubb 12y ago
It feels almost like there is an implied leading question like: "Am I wrong?"
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by mbubb 12y ago
Articles (and the attendant discussions) like this are incredibly useful for me. I really appreciate HN for things like this. Recently signed up for keybase to check it out. Read critiques (mostly negative) but jumped in anyway as I am hung
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by mbubb 12y ago
Could you further ID "Green"? Do not know who that is. Edit. Matthew Green?
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by mbubb 12y ago
There is a copyright question below... I used these lists: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Ed3.html
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by mbubb 12y ago
https://gist.github.com/mbubb/57f7911725dc9688bba5
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by mbubb 12y ago
It seems a mistake to see these as tarot cards or the I Ching, etc. They are a way to short circuit paralysis due to over-thinking. I wrote a little Python script to return a random one to stdout... too trivial to even post. I like the refe
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Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s Prompts for Overcoming Creative Block(brainpickings.org)
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by mbubb 12y ago
For context of 'why sed and why not x?' This was written in 1984 (I think) and still works with a few syntax adjustments. I think it is not bad discipline to return to these tools from time to time and remember core UNIX principle
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by mbubb 12y ago
And posting thsi here is a mistake... ;) https://github.com/hgarc014/git-game/issues/2
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by mbubb 12y ago
Ah - how do I make sure that cpp file is safe before running a shell script which I am not supposed to read with it as an arg? (I mean this in practice - not in the course of this game)
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by mbubb 12y ago
Nice quote - "Finding out that you’re not the Rebel Alliance, you’re actually part of the Empire and have been all along, is painful." Conceptually agree but feel something is missing in the argument.
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by mbubb 12y ago
Well - except they did not leave a standing army. Once they get up to Hungary they have thousands of km to get back. Genghis' goal was always to return. Not occupy. They had to make sure they could get back.
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by mbubb 12y ago
The book that heydenberk mentions above is remarkable in that it presents a very different picture of the 'ruthless Mongol hordes' as a well disciplined and very flexible moving force. The thing to consider if they were so brutis
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by mbubb 12y ago
I simply had to visit Mongolia and did at the earliest I could. I loved it when I was there in the mid 90s. Very challenging place for me to be and it took me out of my shell a bit. Nothing was obvious for me at the time... ("is that a
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by mbubb 12y ago
Very much agree - especially on prohibition.
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The Red Hook Initiative has a few interesting projects in their neighborhood in Brooklyn. I have casually followed them since Sandy and am very impressed. One project was to setup a mesh wifi network and they made a 'digital stewards&#
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by mbubb 12y ago
I read this years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_the_Iron_Rooster I havent gotten to do the TransSiberian but this book led me to spend a few weeks in Mongolia. When I was young I took a train from Toronto to

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