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Key West fun fact, Florida’s first millionaire made his fortune as a wrecker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Curry
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Related, Apple’s open source: https://opensource.apple.com/
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Speaking of own sites, but did you ever find out what is going on with effbot.org? Somewhat off topic, but I just found your older post & HN has disabled new comments there… I’ve referred to that Tkinter guide so many times. Sad to see
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Star Trek: Picard season 2 trailer teases Q, the Borg Queen(polygon.com)
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Mediawiki has worked well. I’d be curious to hear others experiences with it. VisualEditor is an extremely good WYSIWYG interface. The wiki is able to scale well (project sites are unlikely to approach Wikipedia scale). The API is useful. W
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I’m curious why Microsoft Project is not included on the list of project management software packages? Skip the default Gantt view, but the Activity Network view contains a lot of useful features. It’s based on the PERT technique that comes
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Have you noticed if any of the calendar protocols allow for recording an appointment without specifying a date? Consider a haircut that will take 45 minutes & will invite two people (me & the barber), but the day/time is still
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Six Sigma is to the field of Statistical Process Control what PowerPoint templates are to the field of graphic design. The biggest problem with Six Sigma is many of the people who roll it out understand how to follow the instructions in a S
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Until recently, there hasn’t been enough data to apply statistical process control in a lot of fields. Chemical process companies (like Kodak used to be) have used SPC. “Web scale” companies commonly talk about running experiments now. Lots
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Out of curiosity, do you mean that your products generates template forms for collecting statistical sample data (like Minitab), or that your products collect measurements that are fed into tools like Minitab as data?
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Also, I’d never advocate for using Canvas to replace HTML as a way to share text. I love web pages that work great as web pages, with artful CSS layouts. However, a lot of apps attempt to implement complex UI workflows as HTML forms and mig
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I asked in a friend the same question & got this article in reply: “Google Docs switches to Canvas rendering, sidelining the DOM”, https://thenewstack.io/google-docs-switches-to-canvas-render... So, no, I actually meant
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Ask HN: Why Shadow DOM Instead of Canvas?
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> Unfortunately Apple is not always super-great about keeping their C library up to date Funny that the volunteer open source maintainer is held to a higher standard than the trillion dollar company :-) Something seems backwards about th
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Product Management and/or Sales & Marketing are likely to own the decision.
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> `pyproject-lock.d` Since this PEP is a draft, any comments/thoughts about naming the directory that stores lock files `pyproject-lock.d`? Is it normal to end a directory name with `.d`?
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Scratch 3.0 is actually implemented using Blockly. https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Blockly
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"We wouldn't have had an Apple had I not grown up in a very open technology world." This stood out to me as a key quote in the article. When Woz tells the Apple II story he talks about building the computer from off the shelf
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: 'It's time to recognize the right to repair'(cnn.com)
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Is there a list of other YCombinator aviation startups?
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Side note… While Anaconda Inc.’s licensing approach is currently confusing/frustrating, they’re correct that open source sustainability is a challenge. Projects need financial support as well as volunteers. SciPy.org maintains Pandas,
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> Does the book use any commercial software like xlwings PRO? No, the book uses exclusively software that is open source and free (except for Excel, of course). This is no longer technically true of Anaconda. They’ve adopted a new licens
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Today’s launch vehicle was SpaceShipTwo. The next model (SpaceShip III, revealed in March) is planned to be capable of flying London to Sydney in less than three hours.
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Out of curiosity, what task were you using gimp/photoshop for: (a) edit a photo, (b) draw an illustration, (c) draw a diagram, (d) annotate an image or map?
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I love the core set of smiley face emoji, but skip most of the rest because they’re either too hard to find or too easy to misunderstand. I’d be interested in a comparison between emoji & a character-based language like Chinese or a hie
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You’re both right. Zxzax is correct that GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop, so the tool pallet is appropriate for editing photos. The typical workflow is: (1) stack layers, (2) mask layers, (4) composite. It’s rare to draw a circle on top
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Landscape may fix the issue for you. On iPhone XR the file names appear. The mobile UI is frustrating though, especially when it limits an iPad.
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You’re right. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
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What audience are you writing for? Drill by frequently publishing work to that audience so you can get feedback and iterate. Build up larger works over time.
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> I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I showed my grandma (98) a photo on an iPad. Her immediate reaction: “there’s no reason to paint realism anymore”. The method described in this article might work for realism in oils, but ple

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