ghubbard
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Comment · 7 years ago
I stopped reading because the letters kept "unlocking" and rotating in an annoying way.
There are other less user-hostile Clojure guides.
Comment · 7 years ago
This quine is covered briefly in Yusuke Endoh's talk from RubyConf 2017 https://youtu.be/6K7EmeptEHo?t=1500
The whole talk is awesome if you're interested in this kind of thing in Ruby.
Comment · 8 years ago
Unless you scramble the cube using more than 20 moves.
http://www.cube20.org/
Comment · 8 years ago
Great article, lots of technical details. A simple answer to the 'Why' can be found in the middle under the 'Off Grid Without Batteries' headline.
> If you have a typical grid tied system (microinverters or normal string inverters, so easily 95+% of installed rooftop solar), the system is technically incapable of running off grid (without additional hardware). There's no waveform to sync with,
Comment · 8 years ago
Why is this tagged as 2003?
Comment · 9 years ago
That hourglass is really annoying.
It does have a hide button, but you have to click the hourglass first, something that years of annoying ads have trained me NOT to do.
Comment · 9 years ago
And where in that book are the references to an actual study?
PROTIP: Books are often filled with creative writing.
Comment · 9 years ago
While a nice story, I have been unable to find any citations that would indicate that this was ever an actual study.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Actually. You know what? Just this week I shipped ten new boxes of these pens to Elon Musk’s office.
An example of sales people having no issue with casually slipping in outright lies?
Comment · 9 years ago
There's also http://exercism.io/ where you can solve problems and get/give feedback on the solutions.
The platform is all open source on Github.
Comment · 9 years ago
If you want to teach without leaving the house or standing in front of a group of people, try http://exercism.io/ (Open Source and free).
Solve simple coding problems, review the submissions of others and help them become better coders. Trying to clearly explain concepts to others is the best way to make sure you really know them yourself.
This is also something that you can do for 10-15 min every day, which will add up over time. Ask for feedback on your own solutions and find out ways others think you could improve things.
Comment · 9 years ago
Juan Browne has a good series of video blogs about what is/has been going on at the Oroville dam.
In this video from 1st March he visits the site and surrounding areas and talks with some of the engineers working on the project:
Comment · 9 years ago
The videos these clips are taken from can be found on the
California Department of Water Resources YouTube page: