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by simon 14y ago
Yes, nice one. My favorite kidsafe curse is from an old BBC radio show from the late 40's and early 50's, called The Goon Show. The main character would say "curses and naughty words". The BBC at that time was super-strict and you couldn't
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by simon 14y ago
True, but I despair of it ever actually happening. If even companies with sales people can get it wrong, where getting it wrong makes a difference, then what hope to companies who stick employees in little fabric colored boxes have? Of cour
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by simon 14y ago
It's one of the ways that I am available to my congregation. And they love the chat feature as they can catch me without having to call. Haven't taken on anyone outside of the congregation yet. I suppose that could happen.
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by simon 14y ago
I have previously made my kids use Khan Academy. I did try it once myself, and zipped through some of the early stuff. I really should go back and continue, especially after I just tried helping my oldest daughter with her math homework and
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by simon 14y ago
An interesting point, but a pretty thin blog entry. I think that everything I have done has benefited from practice. Even programming. The Pragmatic Programmers (iirc) even devised code katas to formalize the practice process.
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by simon 14y ago
No. That said, they do seem to be either making mistakes or getting their eye off the target. The publicly admitted target is to provide social networking for people. The obvious business target is to make money. But they have to make money
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by simon 14y ago
I love this classic advice. And now that I have to wear bi-focals, I need this advice.
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by simon 14y ago
I use a first generation Nook from Barnes and Noble. I have only 3rd party books on it purchased from publishers that make ebooks available without DRM. (O'Reilly, Manning, Pragmatic Programmers, Sitepoint) These are all backed-up up on my
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by simon 14y ago
I see where you are coming from, but some long-form writing is itself the research. Paul Graham (IIRC) said that his essays were a way of exploring ideas. In some of my writing, I have this to be the case also. And then, of course, there ar
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by simon 14y ago
Yes, a browser version, even without the drawing stuff, would be great. A walled garden that I can let my kids use while they get used to that big old outside world. Not trying to over-protect, but expose gently.
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by simon 14y ago
I'm English, so I understand irony just fine. There are still ways to write interesting headlines without going Howard Stern on us.
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by simon 14y ago
Ok, interesting enough article, but could we cut back just a tad on the attention seeking headlines?
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by simon 14y ago
Upvoted. It's worse than just females in tech, it's OMG men and women are different! Eeek! I kinda like the difference myself. Not because I don't want women in tech, but because women should be able to pursue whatever they want that makes
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by simon 14y ago
I love this idea. I have some pre-teens that I would love to allow to send more email while having control over who they can reach. Any plans for other than iPad?
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by simon 14y ago
Whenever I see statements of this form, I find myself adding "except when it doesn't" to the end and then finding it much more acceptable. Future software will look like Facebook except when it doesn't. Much better.
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by simon 14y ago
It does appear to be a form of rewarded behavior, so there is an implicit approval.
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by simon 14y ago
This is because however politically incorrect it is to point out, that girls and boys are different in basic fundamental temperaments. Boys play competitive games where they either compete against each other or work together to overcome an
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by simon 14y ago
I have two daughters ... both princess-obsessed. I trip over Barbies some days!
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by simon 14y ago
Clever. Or at least it made me laugh. I always wanted to make a "real" resume. The resume that you'd send if you were completely honest about the work that you've done, and the reasons for switching jobs. An un-resume. Or even just an annot
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by simon 14y ago
We get around that by opening the dishwasher a few inches as soon as it's finished its cycle. That way the steam escapes, and the heat in the unit finishes drying the dishes. Most of the water you see on the contents is steam that has re-co
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by simon 14y ago
Yes. The bean counters are finally in charge and the only thing that will cause a change will be the market's reaction in the shape of buying or not buying products. Doing what is awesome is out and careful is in. Sad.
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by simon 14y ago
I'm not a huge Apple fanboy, but this seems like some industrial-grade hate. Wow! I think that the company is doing pretty well considering it lost it's spirit and soul with the passing of Steve Jobs. (I have an MPB as our family computer b
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by simon 14y ago
Yup, that was my initial thought too. I have two daughters and I have gotten my eldest going with Ubuntu on her school laptop and she's loving it. I'm introducing her to shell scripting and LaTeX (through the awesome Pandoc tool) right now.
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by simon 14y ago
I suspect that you won't miss the snow. And certainly not the city's inability to plow anything other than the main roads after a heavy snowstorm. And I dare you to tell me that you miss the beltline traffic! :-)
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by simon 14y ago
I work as a Java developer here in Mad Town, but I must say that I know some really nice, welcoming and seriously excellent Ruby programmers here. Glad to hear that my impression of the local Rubyists was not wrong. Mmmmm ... Wisconsin chee
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by simon 14y ago
This seems obvious these days, but I imagine that in the 80's this was considered dangerous and edgy.
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by simon 14y ago
Thanks. Most of my conversations here have been of a technical nature and that's fine, as I am both a geek and a pastor. I am just disappointed that off-topic conversations are welcome unless they enter the spiritual realm. Oh well, I have
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by simon 14y ago
Thank you for kind words. Back before I was a pastor (5'ish years ago) I used to blog regularly and often got into tussles with atheists, so fear not, these guys are just big ol' pussy cats compared to them. I guess the emotion I want to ex
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by simon 14y ago
No sarcasm on my part. There is no problem reconciling any part of my statement. Why does it seem strange to you for a Christian to be interested in Mars? The scriptures teach that God created the heavens and the earth and the stars and by
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by simon 14y ago
Arrgh, I'm two days off the maximum. Must have been getting slow in my old age!

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