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by Grae 1y ago
I'm fascinated by this kind of reflective engagement between human and AI creativity. Human makes an AI joke; second human finds the joke funny and thinks for a minute of an absurd sub-joke; AI fills in joke details; human interacts wi
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by Grae 1y ago
A gap like cannot be closed without corporate and foundation gifts. That said, individual gifts can also contribute to the progress. As is common with schools, parks districts, etc., the Open Source Lab partners with a 501(c)(3) organizatio
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by Grae 2y ago
I was being malicious and dropped down onto the hovering pink cube outside the play area on the final level. Once you roll off that pink cube your respawn point is on the cube, leaving you stuck and unable to get back to the main course. NB
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by Grae 3y ago
This line is really interesting: > The best interests of the company and the mission always come first. That is absolutely not true for the nonprofit inc. The mission comes first. Full stop. The company (LLC) is a means to that end. Very
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by Grae 3y ago
The author agrees with you. They're saying that the lack of legal protection for fonts is a problem, and that creating an opportunity to challenge that law would be a good thing. Courts can only weigh in on legal issues when people bri
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by Grae 4y ago
That's awesome, small world indeed. Make Salt Lake looks great. Yeah I share that conviction. This space is less about creating value and capturing a part of it than creating community (though done well the value created by a thriving
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by Grae 4y ago
I strongly second the suggestion to explore operating as a non-profit if you continue. My local incarnation, BARN[0][1] is a financially sustainable nonprofit. However, we wouldn't be sustainable as a for-profit company, certainly not
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Ask HN: State of Linux Mobile?
2 points by Grae 5y ago|0 comments
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by Grae 5y ago
Hey it's a Johnnie HN thread. There are dozens of us. Dozens! I've been very loosely involved in Interintellect[0], which itches a similar scratch and looks spiritually very similar to the Catherine Project, with perhaps less of a
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by Grae 6y ago
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. Bankruptcy is a tool to encourage efficient risk-taking and solving otherwise tricky collective action problems for creditors. There's an unfortunate stigma about bankruptcy in the U
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by Grae 6y ago
Came here to say this. It's entertaining and enjoyable reading that happens to be about financial topics. It is to financial literacy what "take a long vacation in France" is to learning French.
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by Grae 6y ago
Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle
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Ask HN: How do you RSS?
44 points by Grae 6y ago|71 comments
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CEO of DataCamp made 'uninvited physical contact' with an employee(businessinsider.in)
1 points by Grae 7y ago|1 comments
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by Grae 8y ago
These considerations are exactly why we started Thinkful and why we emphasize expert mentorship and accountability so much.
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by Grae 8y ago
What tool did you use, and would you recommend it? I'm considering that route for project-relevant questions my students have.
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by Grae 8y ago
>If the difference between $99 and $25 is make-or-break, you're probably trying to publish a hobby/low quality app anyways. Or maybe you live in a situation where $74 USD is a meaningful barrier to accessing a market. >The o
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by Grae 9y ago
Only when the metric we're measuring and the dimension we're looking for improvement on differ. This concern doesn't seem to apply to measuring lung capacity.
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Google has launched Colaboratory for collaborative Jupyter notebooks(colab.research.google.com)
3 points by Grae 9y ago|0 comments
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by Grae 9y ago
Today I learned the true name of true name .
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by Grae 10y ago
Correct. It's also possible that, as a candidate, demonstrating token emotional attachment to a job posting positively correlates with advancing through the candidate funnel. Your strategy is yours to choose.
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by Grae 10y ago
That's because you aren't as steeped in medical culture as you are in tech culture and don't hear about it. It is brought up all the time. Source: my wife just finished her medical residency.
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by Grae 10y ago
>I don't really care if its open source or not if it does what I want it to do You care about the utility of your editor, and that's fine. Several other comments here try to highlight ways in which open source projects are mor
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by Grae 11y ago
>Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista... Get them into Stanford, then they have the rest of their life to "fail" What a terribly unfortunate conception of "failure" and "suc
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Russia opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead(bbc.com)
88 points by Grae 12y ago|23 comments
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A freelancer's manifesto to prospective clients(thinkful.com)
6 points by Grae 12y ago|2 comments
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by Grae 12y ago
Yeah, congrats to both teams. I agree wholeheartedly with Dan's comment; I love each of your products separately and look forward to playing with the integration down the road, but I'm disappointed to lose the existing Screenhero
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by Grae 12y ago
Early on at Thinkful we were concerned about being able to consistently find skilled mentors to work with students learning front end web development. We hoped expert developers would find our model of mentorship personally and professiona
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by Grae 12y ago
We use Flask at Thinkful in our Python course for precisely this. Ran into some disappointment from folks who'd prefer to dive directly into Django, but from an instructional perspective we'd much rather introduce something compr
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by Grae 12y ago
While I agree with the points made in this post, it's important to note that the strategy of condemning offers with a short term plays in the favor of YC and other established/larger accelerators and to the detriment of newer&#x2F

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