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by veddox 8y ago
That looks good! However, I already had my sights set on Isso ( https://posativ.org/isso/ ). My static site generator coleslaw ( https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw ) already offers a plugin for this
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Just out of interest, how active was your blog? (hits/day?) I don't have a commenting feature on my blog - partly because I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet, partly because I'm worried about potential spam. But
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I haven't been in that precise position, but I have been in other leadership positions. The biggest lesson I've had to learn is: it's all about the people. First and foremost, leading is a social skill (although there are of
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Five years is too little to expect much change in any of these departments - possibly apart from the stack (which seems to change every six months...)
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by veddox 8y ago
Could you (or a mod) change the title of this post to "How to write a bug report"? "How to write a bug" is a bit misleading... (Usually, people don't have to learn how to write them ;-) )
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An Impression of Common Lisp(terranostra.one)
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The computer-crashing portfolio comment was hilarious! (Hadn't seen that one myself.) They didn't pick the best comment from the thread on bad codebases, but that whole discussion was ... enlightening.
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Wulfs book was what got me to read the original Humboldt ;-) I've admired Humboldt ever since I was a child - her book reawakened that interest and gave me the impetus to read some of his own writings.
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DuckDuckGo: `!w Y combinator` ?
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Also, "old" doesn't per force imply "outdated". Especially in ecology (or, as it was known, natural history), there's a lot of good work that was done in the 19th century that would deserve much wider attention
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I started reading the "Origin of species", but found it very long-winded. Going to give "The Voyage of the Beagle" a try soon, hope that is better...
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Absolutely. I found reading A. v. Humboldt absolutely fascinating. (He has the added merit of not only having been a brilliant scientist, but also a gifted prose writer.) And James Watson's "The Double Helix" was an intriguin
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The "real message" of the Bible is clear and plain to anyone who reads it (no matter the language). The biggest arguments in Christianity are often on issues that the biblical writers considered side topics, and thus only touched
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I believe part of the philosophy of HN is to keep it all "one community". Although we do have a large range of topics, categorizing them in any way might encourage sub-communities to form.
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A neat idea, I can't imagine an 11-year old kid actually able to use that. (Though it would make a fun crafts project.) If the son has any real interest in microscopy, I think the money for a proper one is well invested.
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I had two microscopes as a kid: my dad's old childrens' microscopy set and an ancient hospital unit. The former had a rubbish microscope, but a really neat box with plenty of accessories. The second was, like I said, ancient (one
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You can get a decent pocket magnifying glass for $10. If you want to look at any cellular structures, I don't think there's a way around slides and bottom-up lighting. Fortunately, preparing slides is actually fun ;-) Also, all se
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My Journey to the Ants(terranostra.one)
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Well, some people do it, but in almost every case I don't think its worth the bother. I set up a mail server sometime back just for the experience - and it was a good experience, but I couldn't send emails to GMail or any MS host
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Get to know somebody who is a (constructive) critical thinker, and spend time with them. Read books by people who are good critical thinkers. If you want to develop a practical skill, watch people who are good at it doing it. Oh, and as has
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1. I often program in the commandline, or via an SSH connection. Emacs is there, whether I have a GUI running or not. 2. Emacs keyboard shortcuts mean I don't have to use a mouse at all - makes typing and navigating so much quicker. 3.
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Never been to MIT or any such place, but I know the story from the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html (It mentions the Caltech hack, too.) Interesting to read some more details in th
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My setup on servers and programming environments: * fish shell * tmux (multiplexer) * emacs-nox (non-GUI version) * mocp (music player) * w3m (web browser) * htop (process viewer)
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Well, for some people that is a pretty big advantage. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 now, running Unity. Despite all its bad press I love Unity - it perfectly fits my workflow and just gets out of your way. (Not like Gnome Shell, where a third of
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> What's easier, buying a $100 tablet, or turning a school around? Buying the tablet is easier, if you have the money. But just how long do you think it's going to last in that kind of environment? Turning the school around is
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Have you had any experience with computers in a school setting? It's all most school in Germany can do to keep their computer infrastructure up and running. Never mind rural Africa! Setting up and operating such a network requires some
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Only in all too many schools here, many parents cannot read and teachers have up to 60 kids in a class...
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I've hit the same article limit, but my reaction was just the same as yours. Perhaps the rest of the article would have improved my opinion of it, but at the moment it sounds like Yet Another Rich Westerner trying to solve the Third Wo
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Map making is quite a fascinating, and intricate business! One tends to take maps for granted, but making a good one really does take quite a bit of work. (And just imagine how it was before satellite imagery, or even GPS...) For an interes
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Out of personal curiosity, I like to ask more experienced people about their leadership philosophy. Specifically, "How do you see yourself as a leader?" Apart from often being educational for myself, how somebody answers this ques

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