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My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by doublepg23 »

galdosdi wrote: post #529
doublepg23 wrote: post #528

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That’s about the price range I’ve been looking but it’s been in the north hills - The third house you have listed there has come up many times. It’s not so much being affordable (I’ve gotten approved for just under $300k on paper, but prefer to limit it to below $230k) it’s just the housing supply is bought up extremely quickly. Anything still on the market for a couple weeks is going to have a bad roof, water damage…

Sounds like you're pretty close to getting to where you need to be then. Buy something with minor (not foundation issues or something) work needed then do it. Even better if none of the work is urgent, so you can spread it out. For example, central air is obviously a luxury. I don't even have it, so it's hard to take that as a serious issue. You can get around to installing it some day. And you probably already know…

I'm scheduled to look at three tomorrow actually :)

I'm working with a realtor and the realtor's platform sends me emails immediately anything is posted within my search criteria and she is very very responsive.

Just to reiterate, it's not so much I don't find houses it's just they go so fast and seemingly quite a bit above asking. To that point the house I submitted an offer on in 24hr and was sold had 10 offers in that time. There's a lot of competition for the low supply.

Houses I'm looking at tomorrow: 1075 Warrendale Bayne, Wexford; 205 E Railroad St Mars; 221 Bernice St., Pittsburgh

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by averageRoyalty »

ko_pivot wrote: post #510

> computers are a very important form of technology. Without it no websites, no Roblox studio, and no nothin. Without computers used have to use tablets. Tablets aren't very useful. Well to do stuff Computers can anyway. Amen.

> Tablets are a form of technology that is very useful.

I'M SO CONFUSED. What is even real?

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by mattront »

Anaphylaxis wrote: post #292
mattront wrote: post #85

Great job Naya :) For other parents here, if your kids are interested in learning HTML and CSS with the help of cute aliens, my son (who was 11 at the time) and I built HTML Planet for Kids [0]. The course uses a visual editor for manipulating HTML, so that there is less typing and frustrating syntax mistakes, while still exposing the code directly without any added abstractions. [0] https://htmlplanetforkids.com/

It's nice that you advertise your business here but for a passionate child this is boring. Double-clicking a box and changing text teaches them nothing, instead of paying $9/mo I can pay $0/mo and have them utilize free courses, YouTube, and teach them how to read documentation like MDN which will benefit them way more than simply teaching them how to use your website.

Not every child is the same - some enjoy our course and find it valuable. HTML Planet can spark kids interest for going deeper into web creativity. Self-learning resources you mentioned require strong pre-existing motivation and/or hands-on parental guidance. Some kids have that naturally while others require more gentle kid-friendly introduction.

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Post by Jeandouglas »

volkadav wrote: post #158

it's good to see a little person having fun with all this technocrap that us grognards have gotten so bitter about over the years/decades. :) i hope she continues to have a blast! (from the dedication page in SICP:) “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and t…

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Post by jachee »

galdosdi wrote: post #442
doublepg23 wrote: post #432

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I'm in Pittsburgh right now and struggling to buy a house. Everything on the market are estates and get bought within a week of listing. This past one I put an offer on was sold in less than 24hrs of posting...

I'm surprised to hear this, I would never think to lump Pittsburgh in with big metros. Are you being picky or something? Do you have kids and thus school district is a major consideration? Do you have a specific neighborhood you want? Really, Pittsburgh of all places? I know a quick search from someone from out of town is kind of shaky and there's a lot of local knowledge you have, but are houses like https://www.zil…

None of those are in Pittsburgh proper. Sure their addresses say Pittsburgh, but they’re all outside of the city. As someone who’s also in tahn and has been watching the market, if you want off-street parking and more than one bathroom in a decent neighborhood in the city proper, you better have $450k all-cash within hours.

edit - okay I admit I got Greenfield and Green Tree mixed up, but my point stands for the other two. :)

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Post by Aeolun »

robertlagrant wrote: post #490
Aeolun wrote: post #420

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I mean, if I’m going to buy a house, I’d want to buy it in my hometown, but that’s very nearly impossible even at software developer salaries. I’m now living overseas, where housing is also expensive, but at least within reach due to low interest rates and just plain building more smaller houses.

Low interest rates increase house prices.

To some extend, but not as much as much as high interest rates increase the amount I actually pay. I guess high interest rates are cool if you have the money lying around to buy a house outright?

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Post by falcor84 »

HenryBemis wrote: post #94
moffkalast wrote: post #78

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I can't believe I'm seriously reading a discussion around the existence of files, what is this, an SNL sketch? This very site is being served from a file system.

I don't think the comment was about the "file system", more like about the "humans" that dump every file they have to whichever folder they find available, and in the end of the day/week/month/year nobody knows where that file is. And then the person leaves the company/org and this file will float in space (SharePoint) forever, never to be recalled again, never to be read again, alone, in a cold world (computer room)…

>And then the person leaves the company/org and this file will float in space (SharePoint) forever, never to be recalled again, never to be read again, alone, in a cold world (computer room).

It will likely eventually be used as training data for an LLM and get an afterlife. Resistance is futile.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by neocron »

rchaud wrote: post #322
neocron wrote: post #281

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Whats wrong with using a CMS? A lot of them offer html content elements if you wish to express yourself more freely I don't miss the days of framesets and including the header, footer and menu over and over again

A CMS makes the backend inaccessible. Want to add inline styles to a page? You can't. Want to embed a script for some quick interactivity? You can't. Of course you could attempt to locate the theme files and edit them, and edit the configuration files to enqueue scripts but at that point you're no longer having fun. The only thing you can do is write paragraphs in templated portions of the page. And that's who a CMS…

That's not my experience working for CMS like TYPO3 for many years. Although actually using that power without proper training for the editors often results in chaos.
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