I'm from the other side: a rural stay-at-home father who writes Python, Scheme, and C# (among others) on the side. I wouldn't live in Silicon Valley for the world. I have an email address with FastMail under my HN username.
I've been reading about the Russian Revolution lately, and one feature of radical revolutionary thought has stuck with me: they believe that changing the environment in which people live will create a new type of person, the "New Soviet Man", or whatever name they give the particular flavor of new man their ideology will free humanity to become. This is in contrast to the conservative and reactionary idea of humanity, where there is a human nature that is constant, and the best a new environment can offer them is a different way to express their essential humanity, with all its typical virtues and failings. I personally think history bears out the latter view pretty well, but even if you don't find either convinces you, it's a valuable way to view the aspirations of the two schools of thought.
This person writes with the intention of sounding "common as muck", but their intellect and sensitivity comes through clearly. It was really a good read.
Some people here are saying this is ineffective marketing, but while I have no earthly need for a Rhodes MK8, I almost drooled on my phone, and I would direct disposable income towards one if I had enough. Looks like a beautiful instrument, very covetable.
Why should we? Is Ukraine really that important to the United States? Is provoking greater enmity from Russia on behalf of a faraway irrelevance really in our best interests? Would we have been wiser to have acceded to Russian requests that we abandon the idea of NATO membership and participation for Ukraine several years ago when this invasion could have been avoided?
Americans have short memories, and don't recall President Obama saying that, while Ukraine is a critical security matter for Russians, it is not so for America, and that we shouldn't allow concern over Ukraine to overshadow our greater national interest. It's a pity that neither his administration nor the two following ones have consistently followed that principle. Our meddling in Ukraine is a large part, though by no means the whole, of the cause of this action.
I had both a Spectrum (actually the Timex-Sinclair 1000) and a TI-994/A. The TI was a lot more capable, but having the Spectrum first was a good gradual learning experience. I think it was a great way to get into computing and gain the lifelong attitude that the computer does what I tell it, not what someone else thinks it should do for me.
You're being downvoted to oblivion but you're speaking my language. Government needs to get out of the way and let people thrive, rather than stepping in to subsidize the ways they're failing and encourage them to continue.
How could they tell? — and that's the point. When you see the standard disclaimers, you don't know if they were placed there as an honest expression of the writer's opinion, or if they were put there by order of their mind's "legal department".
I see 50 hours a week as work, nothing more. "Haven't seen him in two months" sounds, in that context, like dramatic hyperbole. Dismissing someone's hard work to support a family with an age-related slur doesn't breed sympathy for a position, either.
I wrote a few small Android apps using Kivy, and I ran into some problems with performance with scrolling lists of buttons. Doing it the most obvious, natural way led to obvious poor performance — a list of more than a dozen or so buttons simply could not be scrolled without accidentally clicking on one. There was a recommended workaround, which I found and used, and its performance was slightly less obviously bad — it showed up with dozens of bad reviews from users of slightly outdated devices. The last I looked, Kivy had not progressed on that issue. I didn't continue to use it, and don't know if it has other similar problems, but it was a discouraging experience for me.
Perhaps people learn French, Latin, and German because they want to. Who are you to say what they may or may not choose to learn? A diversity of education and knowledge is a good thing for a culture, and if it was not, people would still be justified in learning what they want to learn.
Besides, that we have a sizable population that either has not yet learned English or has chosen not to does not create an obligation in others to learn their language. Are you certain it's more important to enable a sub-community that has not embraced the dominant language of the country, rather than be able to experience the thoughts of the ancients in their own Latin? To extend your argument, I live in an area with a large Hmong population that has not fully embraced English; should the schools here abandon education in all languages but English and Hmong?
I'm sitting here with a baffled look, unsure whether to laugh, so I'll ask: are you joking or serious? I've never been to New Jersey, but I've never heard anything to suggest it's inspiring, technologically or otherwise.
Not about absolutely every issue, but it does seem like there are more absolute redline divisive issues on which we can't be friends if we disagree. In fact, we not only can't be friends, we can't even get together to have a good argument, because that's offering you legitimacy and, after all, you're one of the bad people who aren't really even human at this point.
Nobody said anything about not allowing people to dictate who can distribute their art. Why must we take every "you shouldn't do this" statement to mean "you shouldn't be allowed to do this?"
Ultralights and hang gliders are nowhere near as dead as this article seems determined to assert, using anecdotes without data. (How do I know? Also anecdotes, unfortunately, as their deregulated nature makes data hard to come by.) But this article paints the bleakest picture of personal flight possible, and I'm not convinced they have the facts straight — except about jet packs, which are about as practical as a human cannonball.
There has recently been some real progress in this front, with the FAA approving unleaded fuel in about 600 engine models. Basically, aviators have been waiting a long time for the government to stop forcing them to use leaded fuel.
Those names are reflective of various ways you can dismiss people without considering their positions — or more charitably, categorize and dismiss people espousing positions you've already considered and dismissed. It shows that those techniques are non-ideological, independent of the views of the person employing them. Use of language like that of a sign that if you're looking for substantive discussion of ideas, you're in the wrong place.
I have a solution! I subscribe to Spotify and a spelling practice app for my children. Anything else, I buy outright or use free software. I will not pay for a subscription when there's any other option.
Of course, my first sentence is a lie, because it only works if everyone would just do what I do, and at no time in the history of humanity has everyone just, so I have no solution.
I have an irrational hatred for Kubernetes based solely on people writing "K8s". I understand that this is my problem and not theirs. I am, in a word, triggered.
If you want an interesting and distinct Baptist set of beliefs and practices, the Primitive Baptists are fascinating. They were a prominent group of Baptists in the early part of the nineteenth century in America, but their resolution not to embrace the missions movement cost them much popularity. Calvinist in the broad outlines of their theology, but a lot of significant differences that I think are a little more intellectually consistent. There are still a small number out there.
The opposite of Calvinist ideas about salvation, yes, but very much in line with culturally-Calvinist ideas about how to live your life. No branch of Christianity can be reduced to its soteriology without distorting it beyond recognition.
I'm always skeptical of reasoning that runs, "This spiritual practice, which requires long learning and dedicated practice, has been shown to offer these benefits. You can get them now using this one weird trick!" It sounds Calvinist and curmudgeonly, but I really don't think there's a shortcut to spiritual improvement: you get what you work for.