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by simon 9y ago
Suggestion 1: Have children and help them with their Maths homework. Suggestion 2: Signup with https://www.khanacademy.org/ and work through from 1st grade until you feel that you've gone as far as you wish.
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by simon 12y ago
Sorry for the second reply, but I have written a blog entry on my book writing experience. It ended up larger than I expected, yet still doesn't exhaust all that I would want to say, so more may follow. http://simonpeter.org
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by simon 12y ago
Sorry for the delay. I generally abstain from HN over the weekends. Feel free to email me, there are several addresses in my profile entry. I reply fastest to the GMail one. I really should blog about my experience of writing a book. Some p
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by simon 12y ago
Wrote a book (non-technical). A very interesting experience indeed. I used LeanPub for the content and then CreateSpace for the deadtree version.
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by simon 12y ago
Twenty years ago, back in England, I had 5 weeks of vacation and standard public holidays. I moved to the United States and after twenty years I have "progressed" to zero vacation days and all public holidays as unpaid time off.
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by simon 12y ago
I do not see the negative connotations that you do with the word "geek". I describe myself as a geek or geeky. That aside, the article is a good one and I have read it several times before and feel that it gets much right.
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by simon 12y ago
Yup. Man I remember my childhood and it was awesome ... no planned sports, regular family meal times and plenty of time to just play or read or ride my bike or walk for miles in the local fields. I try to provide something close to this for
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by simon 13y ago
I'm a pastor (and former geek) and I would love to see more info on your landing page before handing out an email address. Not sure if my congregation is ready to go "online giving", but the organization I belong to may be in
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by simon 13y ago
That's easy ... the worst thing about most project management software is the project manager (PM) that uses it. :-) Now that I have gotten 23 years of corporate IT cynicism out of my system I'll try to be more sensible. I have only rarely
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by simon 13y ago
Scary and exciting! Seven months ago, I became a full-time pastor. Quite different from web development using Java and programming in general. Twenty three years working as a geek is not the most helpful background for pastoring. On the oth
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by simon 14y ago
I am so using that. Thanks for sharing.
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by simon 14y ago
Both ... just not at the same time. That would be like crossing the streams!
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by simon 14y ago
Not sure. I know you can edit comments for up to an hour after posting, but I don't know about top level stories. People with moderator privs can change things. Perhaps one will see it and change it. Or you could just post a new top level s
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by simon 14y ago
A great idea, but the blog entry linked is from April 2012. Go to the site, click on the site title and then navigate around from there. It would be helpful if this link had gone to a page that gave a summary or a list of links to the mater
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by simon 14y ago
I'm glad that you have had more positive experience on HN with faith/religious comments than I have. Others have made similar observations to mine. Some conversations have gone well, but there are more that have not. Most likely my own faul
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by simon 14y ago
More people have been killed by officially atheist governments (esp. in 20th century) than by any religions.
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by simon 14y ago
Thank you for the pointers, I shall read some more on this. Sorry you departed the faith. Perhaps, you should have been really, really into this stuff? :-)
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by simon 14y ago
Your whole answer radiates a tone. Tone is that sentiment that is expressed over and above the words actually used. You could say that tone is found by reading between the lines. Describing something as a conspicuous flaw is not a statement
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by simon 14y ago
Your point about "Tolkien fanatics" is a good one, but I was not reacting to just one word. As a Toby Mac fan, I like to refer to myself as a Jesus Freak, so mere labels aren't the issue. It's the tone of the whole comment and the inference
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by simon 14y ago
I do not find this to be the case here on HN. When there are difficult or tragic circumstances and we believers speak up to try to help or encourage, we get voted up, but the rest of the time, we get downvotes and negative responses.
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by simon 14y ago
Thank you. I shall both upvote your original comment and thank you for your update to your original comment. I am one of those literal word of God people, but that kinda comes with the territory as a pastor. :-)
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by simon 14y ago
Yeah, although it pretty much depends on how you define bible. The Catholics use the KJV with the Apocrypha inserted between the OT and NT. Most of the denominational churches (loosely what you referred to as Protestants) use similar bibles
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by simon 14y ago
Technically, "bible fanatics" is only insulting to one religion, Christianity. The Jews observe the Torah, which while being 99'ish percent the same as the OT is technically different because of ordering of the books and the combining of so
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by simon 14y ago
Careful, your lack of tolerance is showing. There are records in the ancient historical stories of many cultures of a world-wide flood. Update: the downvotes have started already! Thank you for firmly establishing my point! :-)
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by simon 14y ago
Will do. Very impressed with the layout. I'll have to look at the process that leanpub use to see if that might work for me.
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by simon 14y ago
Thanks, I'll look into the links you provided. Interesting that you mentioned dental health, as after a year or so of following the slow-carb diet, my dental nurse complimented me on the good condition of my teeth and gums. Sugar is not our
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by simon 14y ago
I downloaded this and the PDF looks nice. I'll try the EPUB file on my Nook later. I'll read it and if I like it, I will likely go back and purchase it for real. Thankyou leanpub for making this available for free.
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by simon 14y ago
Slow-carb diet (from the Four Hour Body) and Intermittent Fasting (primarily eat in the evenings, per The Warrior Diet) and Kettlebell exercises (swings and getups). My life is too busy (I'm a pastor) for anything more complicated, but I fi
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by simon 14y ago
I completely agree with a default plan of not burning bridges anywhere. But it is still possible to do that without tipping your hand to the employer. If the employer needs more than two weeks to be ready for an employee to leave, then the
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by simon 14y ago
I'm all for playing nice with your employer ... stayed late on my last day at previous client because they scheduled an install for the project I was the technical advisor for that weekend! Yes, really. Sigh. It went well in the end. The pr

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