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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'…

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 sa…

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 real…

Wrote a book (non-technical). A very interesting experience indeed. I used LeanPub for the content and then CreateSpace for the deadtree version.

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 …

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 time…

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 th…

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…

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…

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 …

I am so using that. Thanks for sharing.

Both ... just not at the same time. That would be like crossing the streams!

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 se…

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 t…

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 wel…

More people have been killed by officially atheist governments (esp. in 20th century) than by any religions.

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? :-)

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. D…

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…

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 …

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…

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 (loo…

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 differ…

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! …

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.