nekopa
- Karma
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- August 17, 2009 (16y ago)
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- A Musical War of the Worlds (boredreading.com)
- Miniature building construction in foamboard (009.cd2.com)
- Babbage and Lovelace (nautil.us)
- Whip Sword (atlasobscura.com)
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After seeing an interesting thread on an unhappy CTO, and the value of doing an MBA for tech people, I would like to ask the following question: Think about a great tech person who needs to learn business. If you had…
- Powerpuff Girls teach coding (techcrunch.com)
- First Friendly Contact with the Sentinelese (probashionline.com)
- Marble Music Machine (wintergatan.net)
- Flightgear Space Shuttle (flightgear.org)
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After reading the top comment on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10969843 I was wondering if anyone can point me towards some good resources that teach the philosophy of defensive programming. I say…
- Successful Former Teacher Responds to Wisconsin Gov with a Scathing Letter (magazine.good.is)
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So I made a bet with a friend 2 years ago that Facebook would go the way of MySpace by 2018. Not that I thought it should, more that I thought it would. Now it seems I may lose $5, Is there any way to speed Facebook's…
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Hi all, my Google fu is failing me and I can't find the comment which mentioned it on HN. I am trying to find a presentation where the presenter shows off a new programming tool including an editor and new cli where…
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I know the old adage, but I think I have a use case where it is false, so I want to see what HN has to say about it. Fist of all, this is a private project, something I am working on with me as the only user. So the…
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Hi all, I am currently going through Learn Python the Hard Way, and am on the review section where I have to read through source code. Can anyone recommend some good open source Python software I can look at? I am…
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I know the pros and cons regarding hellbanning. But could it be possible to implement a 'resurrect' feature for specific comments of hellbanned people. (Maybe this is already a feature, I don't know) The reason for this…
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I read this article http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm Which has been put forward a few times here on HN. It really struck a nerve with me as I found a lot of my intuitions about schools reaffirmed in it. But as I am…
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Hi all, I am trying to revive my coding skills after a hiatus of almost 20 years. A good piece of advice for writers is that they should write a 1000 words a day. How could I translate this into something for coding? I…
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I am trying to find a discussion thread and related blog post that was on HN a while ago about the mistakes programmers make when dealing with dates and times. Searching HN gives too many results, and when I go through…
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Greetings fellow hackers, I am looking for some recommendations on books for building a team from scratch. This is not a tech based team(I work in education), so I am looking for something more universal related to team…
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I have put myself on a heavy learning workload, as I feel I need to update most of my skills. As a teacher, I have set myself challenging, project based goals for this learning. Through some old HN submissions I have…
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Execution is everything. Ideas are a dime a dozen. I have seen from a lot of places that it's not ideas that count, but the execution. This leaves me in a quandary. I have ideas, all the time, every second of every day.…