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Easy - homeschooling may include but does not require "in the home" any more than "homework" is required to be done in your house. I was homeschooled and have homeschooled my three…

Gandalf says this in the movies, not in the book. However the descriptive language is drawn from Frodo's dream in the barrow downs and his experience sailing into west at the end o…

I'm still at the "making tongs from rebar" stage of my blacksmith career but I can probably explain somewhat: The machine is probably a power hammer. The pointy tool is a punch, us…

I built a two-story straw bale house with lime exterior stucco and clay plaster on the interior walls. Many details in the house use reclaimed/salvaged lumber (fake box beams on th…

Just getting back on the latest open source Python ecosystem after a long stint of mostly writing Python in a corporate mono-repo context with bespoke tooling. So far I like: - bla…

>Isn't this partially what you pay your architect for? If you're willing to pay top dollar you should be able to find one that's very hands on and coordinates the whole building pr…

Agreed on AFCI circuit breakers! They are now mandatory for all 15-20 amp light and plug circuits on new construction where I live - although breakers for large appliances do not r…

For context I built a straw bale home with a lime exterior plaster (carbon neutral on the long term scale) and clay interior plaster. The claimed R-value of the exterior walls is R…

It's called DuckDuckGoose - see https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2015/twitter-ex...

I'm going again. Peter Norvig is keynoting!

Good job OSS terns!

If you are local to the Bay Area and can afford to take a weekday off this is a chance to take half or full day classes from cool instructors (Raymond Hettinger, Paige Bailey, Wes …

This will be my second year attending - personally looking forwards to Rachel Thomas' talk on speeding up linear algebra with randomized SVD.

Interestingly this happened to me and to my younger brother. There was no racial component to it although we do belong to a religious minority, come from low-income backgrounds and…

I'm not the submitter but I am helping organize the conference. I help organize SF Python Meetup and we've talked about trying to run a mini-con for several years. We've finally go…

> I would not adventure to say state-of-the-art schedulers would not have been possible without Go, but for sure Go fits the requirements pretty well. AFAIK Mesos is mostly written…

From the response https://www.brave.com/blogpost_4.html > Brave is not, as the NAA asserts, “replac[ing] publishers' ads on the publishers' own websites and mobile applications wit…

I expect the performance/parallelism complaints. It's interesting that the tl;dr also includes "packaging and distributing an app is a reason go > python". Python needs a .war form…

You could use pex which bundles up python requirements into an executable zip. I ran $ virtualenv PEX (PEX) $ pip install pex (PEX) $ pex mycli -e mycli.main:cli -o mycli.pex (PEX)…

Worst xkcd ever. http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/ is a decent reply if less pithy.

I loved dragonbox and so did my daughters. I just bought lightbot jr for my 4 year old and tweeted a pic. He's currently muttering to himself and it's cracking me up - "Oh this one…

I'm in one of these. It costs a lot less than $15K per year - but I don't live in the Bay Area. Our kids are enrolled in a charter school which helps with the state testing/state s…

You are factually incorrect. In North American usage a "public school" is a school open to the public and run on public funds (tax monies) instead of funded by charging students fo…