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by veddox 7y ago
Why does the old man need to learn programming? The developer already knows how to do that. If they're going to do things together anyway, let the developer do what he does best, and let the old man do what the developer can't (th
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A Few Principles of Software Development(terranostra.one)
4 points by veddox 7y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 7y ago
Sadly, I know some churches that are indeed like that. Fortunately, the vast majority I know are nowhere near. Please don't lump them all together.
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by veddox 7y ago
> anything where you can recreate a sense of being part of a group and not just being among people I like that observation! Also the point that leaders matter a lot - or rather the community culture they manage to create (or not).
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by veddox 7y ago
Keep your eyes open - volunteer organisations will often put up posters to advertise their existence. Or browse your local community newspaper.
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by veddox 7y ago
Ahem, I'm not sure where you volunteered, but I have every single one of those benefits in my local students union. (Except maybe number three, but that could be arranged if I wanted to.)
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by veddox 7y ago
> volunteer-driven efforts need reliable people just like anything else does Amen to that! One of the greatest challenges facing volunteer organisations these days is the supreme difficulty of getting people (especially millenials) to co
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by veddox 7y ago
I suspect you won't find it quite as easy as that to divvy apart a church community from its creed. Most of the New Testament writings are devoted to teachings about how the church and its community ought to function, and it's all
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by veddox 7y ago
Is it unfair for parents to pass on to their kids what they themselves are firmly convinced of? Isn't that what all parents (are supposed to) do?
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by veddox 7y ago
I'm having some problems parsing the triple negative in your second sentence... But if I understand it correctly, it's the old accusation that religious people effectively "brainwash" their kids when raising them to thei
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by veddox 7y ago
This argument only works if you think of "Lisp" as a single, linearly developing language. It hasn't been that for decades. (That's why they created "Common" Lisp, after all.) Lisp is a family of languages - wi
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by veddox 7y ago
I get the impression that the communities are different. Not that Julia's is "more energetic" (there's actually quite a bit of activity around CL too), but that it's simply a different crowd. The Julia people seem t
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Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
2 points by veddox 7y ago|2 comments
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by veddox 7y ago
If you're only interested in the content, then yes, you're right. But I'm not on Facebook because of the content, I'm there for the people.
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I get the impression that nobody has really mentioned the elephant in the room, which is that Facebook and Twitter are so popular precisely because they are so big, and the IndieWeb is unattractive mainly because it isn't. Like probabl
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by veddox 7y ago
Great story, thanks for sharing! "The first week of don's project he spent in writing his own assembler." And my respect for Knuth goes up even further :-O
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by veddox 7y ago
True that, but it's good fun anyway ;-) Plus, I'd rather spend two days setting up a usable, solid stack than be annoyed with WordPress every time I load their web interface...
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by veddox 7y ago
I use coleslaw, a Lisp static site generator (see my setup description here: https://terranostra.one/posts/Blogging-with-Lisp.html ). I like the minimalism: I write in a text editor on my own laptop, then push to my ser
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by veddox 8y ago
A couple of weeks ago I had a site that simultaneously showed me an extra-wide cookie bar, a notification request, and a greyed out screen with a half-screen "Disable Adblocker" request. That was two-thirds of my entire laptop scr
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Communicating Science(terranostra.one)
1 points by veddox 8y ago|0 comments
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If you're talking about clickable URLs, I agree with you. But shortened URLs are incredibly useful in non-clickable environments such as posters, where you need a memorable address. (Example: My department recently organized a scientif
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by veddox 8y ago
Aside from the expertise represented in the HN crowd, I think another key factor is the self-reinforcing culture Y Combinator managed to build here. The guidelines aren't just some random document, they actually describe the spirit of
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by veddox 8y ago
I've always enjoyed and been intrigued by Greek mythology. Started with Roger Lancelyn Green's "Tales of the Greek Heroes" as a kid, continued with Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson" series as a teen, until I
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by veddox 8y ago
> Really didn’t work well at all Why not? I've never tried it, but I'd imagine a D&D party set in mythological Greece would be not much different from one in medieval fantasy Europe.
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by veddox 8y ago
> Sure, it’s rocket science, but so is playing Kerbal Space Program. Best sentence in the article :D On a serious note, I remember a university friend telling me about how they had been working on figuring out this orbit. Interesting to
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by veddox 8y ago
Fancy! The interactivity is indeed impressive :-) It also feels a bit overloaded, though. Especially the lower bar on the homepage - the cursive script is really hard to read, and the scrolling credits are too distracting.
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by veddox 8y ago
https://terranostra.one/ I like writing, both as an art and as a tool to shape and share ideas. Accordingly, my blog is a rather eclectic mix of topics, from biology and books to Java and Lisp.
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by veddox 8y ago
> If I get a book recommendation, I immediately buy it and put it on a bookshelf. That's fine if you can afford it ;-) Living on a student's budget, I limit myself to two new books a month, or sometimes three. But then I make s
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Addendum to rule 1: Browse through the bibliography. Quick but effective heuristic to gauge how serious the book is, and how well the author knows his field. If there isn't one, don't bother buying it. If it's a 20 page list
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by veddox 8y ago
> Reading only very popular books is a recipe to read only books that fit into your own preconceived worldview. ... under the assumption that everybody who rated the book shares your preconceived worldview. Assume that not to be the case

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