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by teach 11y ago
Blogging is far preferable to commenting in a public forum because I don't have to see it unless I visit. To use your own analogy: commenting on Reddit/Youtube/HN is like farting in public. Blogging is like farting in your ow
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by teach 11y ago
It appears that we have skipped it. So, good job?
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by teach 12y ago
Same. I spent enough time recompiling kernel modules in the 1990s; I've gotten all that out of my system. I just want a system with sane defaults that mostly works. Just (~10 minutes ago) upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 and I leave it alone.
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by teach 12y ago
I think he's saying "overly concerned with detail, marked lack of eye contact; probably on the autism spectrum." These are literally two of the diagnostic criteria for 299.00 Autism Spectrum Disorder. It seems like you'r
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by teach 12y ago
As a high school teacher, I work with kids on the autism spectrum all the time, and I don't find his comments offensive. They seem relatively accurate, too.
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by teach 12y ago
*cues
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by teach 12y ago
Agreed. "On Writing" is one of the best books on writing better that I have ever read. Highly, highly recommended. I keep having to purchase more because I give my copies away!
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by teach 12y ago
I know I'm late to the party, but I'd love a keybase.io invite if you still have any. My email is in my profile.
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by teach 12y ago
Pretty sure I still have a bash script laying around to automate this process.
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by teach 12y ago
If you're worried about the distinction between strings and byte sequences, you're thinking about a different sort of "beginner".
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by teach 12y ago
Your dismissal of his Python material is unfounded. This book is quite good, especially for beginners that literally would be unable to learn to code otherwise. As a professional educator myself, I strongly disagree with your sentiment abou
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by teach 12y ago
Reposts are frowned upon in some Internet forums, most notably Reddit, but that's not part of the culture of Hacker News. Reposts are fine here as long as enough time has passed since the last posting.
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by teach 12y ago
I bought Threes, but I prefer 2048. I am terrible at sliding puzzles and strategy games, so Threes is too hard for me. Edit: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
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by teach 12y ago
This is why I only post my Google voice number. And I never pick up if the number isn't already in my contacts.
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by teach 12y ago
Yes, it was. Most vanity websites had a "contact" page with mailing address and phone number. In fact, my blog* still has a phone number because I keep forgetting to take it down. * My site isn't really a blog, just a persona
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by teach 12y ago
It would be nice if you included this info on the page itself. It wasn't obvious to me from the title that this demo requires VR; it's not just WebGL.
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by teach 12y ago
I'm honestly surprised there are people on Hacker News who hadn't yet gotten the message about trans fats. Trans fats are really, really bad. Far worse than the saturated fats they're attempting to replace.
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by teach 12y ago
I believe you that that's not what you intended to say. I certainly don't intend to put words into your mouth! But I think you're wrong; I suspect the vast majority on HN read your comment the way I do. The word 'tried&#
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by teach 12y ago
You are. I can paraphrase your original comment like so: "I have tried in the past to explain how awesome the ratio is, but it didn't go well because of dumb people." You are correct that you're not blaming anyone for be
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by teach 12y ago
raldi didn't say that anyone was or wasn't being dumb. He said that "instead of BLAMING OTHERS for [x], YOU might want to [y]". Blaming others is a poor lifestyle adaptation. Whether or not the other guy was actually du
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by teach 12y ago
The point is that regardless of whether or not the product is any good, TechCrunch saying it's the "definitive leader" doesn't make it so. If it was really the leader, you wouldn't have to tell people; they would al
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by teach 12y ago
And the misuse of 'literally' as a generic intensifier isn't even recent. It dates back[0] to the late 1600s. [0] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2005/11/the...
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by teach 12y ago
I used to be similarly pedantic with English. But a few years ago I converted to descriptivism[0], and I've been much happier ever since. :) [0] http://english.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/prescriptivism-and-d...
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by teach 12y ago
The Chromecast does not require external power; it'll run off the power supplied via the HDMI port. I'm pretty sure the Amazon FireTV Stick will, too. I don't own a Roku Stick, so I can't comment. They prefer having ex
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by teach 12y ago
I think Google was the first to deliver on this promise; Chromebooks have no user-accessible local storage and all the content is in Google Drive. I guess it turns out to have been cheaper to build their own almost-as-good Dropbox replaceme
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by teach 12y ago
How does having a domain-only SSL cert affect anything?
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by teach 12y ago
How is that "sloppy security"? Honest question.
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by teach 12y ago
I understand your point, but I strongly disagree. First, you're saying that the author of this piece -- a military general and historian -- used hard-to-read passive voice throughout because of his extreme demonstrated mastery of the
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by teach 12y ago
SO much passive voice. Somebody needs to run that article through Hemingway.[0] [0] http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
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by teach 12y ago
So far this only works with text-based files. For videos or photos, there's usually not much good metadata or machine-readable file content.

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