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by tedkimble 8mo ago
We're at about one legislature for every 30k people. It was one per 20k in 1973, one per 12k in 1919, one per 6k in 1889, and less than one in 2k when Minnesota was a territory in 1858. I'm not sure what the right ratio is, but th
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by tedkimble 8mo ago
I originally agreed with you, but I've struggled communicating how RCV works to rural Minnesota. I've found more personal success communicating this model.
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by tedkimble 8mo ago
"We" is going a long way here. I have yet to meet someone in rural Minnesota that is aware of this problem, and that there are alternative solutions like this one. But to your main point: the will is not in publishing this, but in
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by tedkimble 8mo ago
I think the number of representatives per election district is a really interesting mathematical/social problem in democracy, and I’m interested in what this audience has to say.
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Fix the two-party system with proportional representation(agrarianparty.org)
31 points by tedkimble 8mo ago|20 comments
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by tedkimble 8mo ago
PS: if you have a contact for Governor Ventura, please help connect us.
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by tedkimble 8mo ago
If you live in Minnesota, please consider helping me transform rural politics. I’m the chair of the Agrarian Party of Minnesota [1], and candidate for the 20B legislative seat. Please consider running for office and providing a new hope for
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by tedkimble 3y ago
Those initial leaves are its cotyledons [0], and they are part of the seed embryo. These leaves often die off shortly after the emergence of the plant's first true leaves, but apparently can last for a year or more in some species. [0]
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by tedkimble 6y ago
Love the Rebuilding Rails concept! I'm doing a very similar thing in Ruby, focused more on "web application development from first principles" ( https://theodorekimble.ck.page/e0bb43b156 ). I know I better abso
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by tedkimble 9y ago
Outreach ( https://www.outreach.io ) | Software Engineer | Seattle | ONSITE I found Outreach last year on a "Who is hiring?" thread myself and joined the team shortly thereafter. I'm now the lead for one of our two
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Tree Shaking vs. Code Splitting: A Real-World Benchmark(medium.com)
4 points by tedkimble 10y ago|0 comments
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by tedkimble 11y ago
That's my main use case. I've got my personal blog [1] setup as a Static Website Manager repository and connected to my personal AWS S3 bucket. Whenever I need to make a little change I can edit locally in my editor of choice, com
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by tedkimble 11y ago
Good news. We're using Jekyll 3 at Static Website Manager [1], but we're moving to support older specific versions as well as custom Gemfiles. [1]: https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com Are there any features the commun
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by tedkimble 11y ago
I recently launched Static Website Manager ( https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com ) which aims bring static sites to a non-technical market. Would love to chat more if you have questions.
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Squash Your Work into a More Meaningful Merge Commit(staticwebsitemanager.com)
1 points by tedkimble 11y ago|0 comments
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by tedkimble 11y ago
Thanks, and totally understandable. I'm still considering what to offer in a more affordable plan for these types of low-usage/low-traffic sites. Would you be opposed to a plan that limited based on usage (the number of commits, w
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by tedkimble 11y ago
There's a growing market of tools solving this problem. We launched https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com recently, which provides a CMS on top of your Jekyll static site. Plus, each user transparently gets their own staging
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by tedkimble 11y ago
There's definitely a point at which an actual web app makes sense. But I think there's also a large category of websites that have been built as dynamic apps even though they’re updated sparingly and only require changes to a few
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by tedkimble 11y ago
OP here. I want to sincerely thank the whole Hacker News community -- I haven’t participated much in the comments lately, but the insight, wisdom and support I continuely gain from this community have been incredibly impactful to me. Thank
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Show HN: Git-backed Static Website CMS for Jekyll (New Pricing)(staticwebsitemanager.com)
2 points by tedkimble 11y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Git-Based Static Website CMS for Jekyll Websites(staticwebsitemanager.com)
6 points by tedkimble 11y ago|3 comments
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by tedkimble 11y ago
I agree completely. I'm working on a static website CMS that I hope to release soon. I think there's a lot of room for the static website market to grow, particularly alongside proper management and deployment tools.
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by tedkimble 12y ago
Seattle WA, Remote|Local, Full-Time|Contract|Part-Time Stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL/Titan, Heroku/AWS, UI/UX tools Resume: http://www.theodorekimble.com/resume.pdf Contact: mail@theodorekimble.com I'
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by tedkimble 14y ago
Deleuzian materialists on HN! Deleuze and de Landa were my primary inspirations during graduate architecture school. I wrote about how such thinking might be incorporated into a web design.[1] [1]: http://kimble.co/2012/bottom-up-web-desig
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by tedkimble 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Based in Minneapolis, Remote OK for the right candidate Our startup is looking for a front-end engineer or designer to join our team on a contract basis (for now). The right candidate will need to possess demonstrable e
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by tedkimble 14y ago
I wouldn't call it eye candy, exactly, but I do think that most HN design submissions are little more than illustration. But I also think that design is much more closely related to engineering than any primarily superficial discipline. (Su
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by tedkimble 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote I am a full-stack Rails developer and generalist designer with a reasonable rate. I possess a formal design education (master of architecture) and a technical background (bachelor of arts, physics). http://kimble.co/w
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Bottom-Up Web Design and the Materiality of the Web(kimble.co)
3 points by tedkimble 15y ago|0 comments
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm in the process of two related posts, but they're not quite finished. One is on my master's thesis and how a design can actually be the result of a complex dynamical system. The other is on the process of na
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Engineering and designing are much more similar than they are different. I recently completed a four-year graduate design degree (architecture) after a lifetime of math, physics and not a whip of art or design experience. Here's my take on

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