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by vturner 7y ago
Replace "gun" in your sentence with say "power tool." Any powerful piece of technology in careless hands is dangerous. Goodness, even computers are dangerous in the hands of narcissistic hackers! That doesn't mean
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by vturner 7y ago
I'm curious how one is attracted to precision "chemically engineered" food. As I am gaining interest week by week in consuming foods in their most natural form, I want the opposite of what this article claims is "the fut
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by vturner 7y ago
Ah yes! Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd.
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by vturner 7y ago
I remember reading the Canterbury Tales in high school. Was just recently talking with my girlfriend how studying history and people's lives of the past puts our struggles we have in some context. The Canterbury Tales is a good example
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by vturner 7y ago
I've wondered if industrial hemp could be a means of revitalizing struggling rural areas, get us off the corn and soybean subsidies and allow us to produce something valuable. How much capital does it take to get a set up going to conv
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by vturner 7y ago
I'd love this, a private server that ran apps (running on my box at home or maybe on an AWS instance) I can access via a web browser: no more senseless version upgrades with all the UI changes to boot, dropped file formats, license key
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by vturner 7y ago
I wish someone with $$ would start plastering this message everywhere the absurd "get rid of the elctoral college" debate comes up. We are not a democracy, seriously no one wants a democracy of 300 million plus. We are a federatio
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by vturner 7y ago
Does anyone think the coursera courses are worth it? I signed up and am working through them in my free time.
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by vturner 7y ago
I don't remember Encarta but we had Sierra's Britannica and then later another (can't recall the name). I remember reading the articles particularly the ones on transistors and radio circuits as I was getting interested in e
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by vturner 7y ago
I thoroughly enjoy UI/client development, but the web app tooling (layer upon layer that is supposed to "fix" HTML/CSS/JS every few years) is frustrating to me. Thus, I avoid it like the plague. :) To be fair, the J
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by vturner 7y ago
I love my Ryobi tools too! Just, I've assumed given their price-point, they aren't built for day in and day out needs of a contractor.
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by vturner 7y ago
Oversensitive? Is the contractor who chooses a Dewalt or Ridgid over a Ryobi for daily work "caring about irrelevant stuff"? A drill is a drill right? Why is it different for us in software?
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by vturner 7y ago
Agreed this is it, when people think Python, they think all the default use cases covered by the many libraries that let you "get things done" quickly with syntactic sugar. Alas, there's more to our work than the first few mi
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by vturner 7y ago
Thanks for posting. I've wondered if it's just me or does anyone else want to leave software engineering because of Python's dominance. There's no arguing against it either because as this thread shows, "I like it f
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by vturner 7y ago
Did they ever publish their path algorithms? I'm building a simulation that will soon need path finding, and something that is good and doesn't appear to be doing obviously stupid things (but not necessarily the best) would be a p
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by vturner 7y ago
From the abstract,"churches and church membership data." unless they went tabulating from church to church, this throws the results nearly out. Church membership isn't something that is updated particularly frequently, at lea
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by vturner 7y ago
The article discusses the "victory gardens" which are quite interesting to me. Gardens I know of in the US zone 6 (without grow lights that help start the season early) are productive a few months of the year. Early spring you get
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by vturner 7y ago
Come around where I work... People actually enjoy the migraine that is web app development.
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by vturner 7y ago
Something I've wondered is if consumers have forgotten what fast, responsive UI feels like or that because so many people used bargain desktops/laptops, they never knew. Thus, slow visually cumbersome software is the norm for the
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by vturner 7y ago
Do these food waste statistics count what factories throw out? Recently, I met someone who works in quality control on a Kelloggs line. He told me that day they threw away 1,500 lbs of food on his line alone and that is a fairly common stat
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by vturner 7y ago
Thank you all for the ideas! I'm blessed to work at home and think I'll definitely look into either building (trying to improve my wood working skills) or buying a standing desk. Maybe a gym membership should be in my future too o
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by vturner 7y ago
Thank you for sharing and I'm sorry for you. A professor who inspired me toward applied math and computational sciences passed away a few weeks ago from a heart attack. He was 47 and had several young children. Health is no joke.
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by vturner 7y ago
What other areas do people with technical backgrounds move into that don't require so much sitting? With degrees in physics and applied math, I'm not sure where I can go and not be at a desk (or take a huge hit in $$). Just 3 year
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by vturner 7y ago
Often wondered why we don't use light (photons) for computing. It seems we could control frequency and compute with it?
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by vturner 7y ago
And the down votes prove your point... Incredible.
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by vturner 7y ago
Right, but I wonder if we restricted the statistics of internet access to the highly non urban areas, does the number of options increase? I personally don't know, I live in a rural area, small city.
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by vturner 7y ago
Interesting to note that 97% of the US land is rural.
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by vturner 7y ago
It definitely it, I'm shocked at the never ending cycle of costs. If you can't buy new, don't buy something middlebofbthe road, too much sunk costs.
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by vturner 7y ago
Super cool on Firefox on Moto X4! Five fingers!
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by vturner 7y ago
Not to mention it's a nightmare to scale...

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