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I'm fascinated by this kind of reflective engagement between human and AI creativity. Human makes an AI joke; second human finds the joke funny and thinks for a minute of an absurd sub-joke; AI fills in joke details; human interacts with sub-joke by making up review; ....

I hope something really fun for you comes out of the unexpected scale.

A gap like cannot be closed without corporate and foundation gifts. That said, individual gifts can also contribute to the progress.

As is common with schools, parks districts, etc., the Open Source Lab partners with a 501(c)(3) organization, the Oregon State University Foundation, to accept tax-deductible donations.

For anyone who would like to directly support the Open Source Lab in staying open, please be sure to indicate "Open Source Lab Fund" on the Oregon State Foundation donation page [0]. Note that their form is *not* set up with any tracking to attribute your gift from your clickthrough, and that any general donations to the Foundation will likely *not* support the Lab in this effort to stay open.

[0] https://give.fororegonstate.org/PL1Uv3Fkug, or click through from the general donation page.

I was being malicious and dropped down onto the hovering pink cube outside the play area on the final level. Once you roll off that pink cube your respawn point is on the cube, leaving you stuck and unable to get back to the main course.

NBD but sharing in case you want this kind of playtesting feedback!

This line is really interesting:

> The best interests of the company and the mission always come first.

That is absolutely not true for the nonprofit inc. The mission comes first. Full stop. The company (LLC) is a means to that end.

Very interested to see how this governance situation continues to change.

The author agrees with you. They're saying that the lack of legal protection for fonts is a problem, and that creating an opportunity to challenge that law would be a good thing.

Courts can only weigh in on legal issues when people bring a dispute before the court. In this case, if someone did what the author describes it would trigger a lawsuit from typographers, which would give the court a chance to (re)interpret or overturn the existing law.

That's awesome, small world indeed. Make Salt Lake looks great.

Yeah I share that conviction. This space is less about creating value and capturing a part of it than creating community (though done well the value created by a thriving community _is_ substantial). And for reasons I've only partially grokked, many people are willing to contribute to a community backed by a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation but not a regular corporation.

I strongly second the suggestion to explore operating as a non-profit if you continue.

My local incarnation, BARN[0][1] is a financially sustainable nonprofit. However, we wouldn't be sustainable as a for-profit company, certainly not if we had investors chasing a return.

[0] bainbridgebarn.org

[1] Disclosure: I'm the executive director and deeply in love with this place. Happy to connect to share our experiences with anyone seriously considering a similar path.

Hey it's a Johnnie HN thread. There are dozens of us. Dozens!

I've been very loosely involved in Interintellect[0], which itches a similar scratch and looks spiritually very similar to the Catherine Project, with perhaps less of a focus on great books and a wider, more modern gamut.

For anyone considering Catherine Project, Interintellect, or St. John's College, I heartily recommend them. Diligently reading through deep written work, then discussing it with other people genuinely interested and invested in the work and the dialogue is a wonderful experience and one that's hugely shaped me.

[0]https://interintellect.com/

I don't understand why this is being downvoted. Bankruptcy is a tool to encourage efficient risk-taking and solving otherwise tricky collective action problems for creditors.

There's an unfortunate stigma about bankruptcy in the U.S. which leads to _far_ fewer people/businesses filing bankruptcy than should be.

No one is better off limping along under unsustainable debt, not businesses and not individuals. We need to get rid of this stigma and let people use the tools we put in place to solve these problems.

Came here to say this. It's entertaining and enjoyable reading that happens to be about financial topics. It is to financial literacy what "take a long vacation in France" is to learning French.

Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?

These considerations are exactly why we started Thinkful and why we emphasize expert mentorship and accountability so much.

What tool did you use, and would you recommend it? I'm considering that route for project-relevant questions my students have.

>If the difference between $99 and $25 is make-or-break, you're probably trying to publish a hobby/low quality app anyways.

Or maybe you live in a situation where $74 USD is a meaningful barrier to accessing a market.

>The only people who like webapps and their encroachment on good, native apps are webapp developers because it allows them to use their skillset to build something they don't know how to build.

You're excluding people and organizations who want to maintain a single codebase.

>I've never met a developer who complained about needing a Mac to develop for iOS that has put forth an even halfway decent iOS app.

My takeaway from this is that you've not met a lot of developers outside the U.S. or who have ethical concerns about mandatory hardware / software purchases as prerequisite to market access.

Only when the metric we're measuring and the dimension we're looking for improvement on differ. This concern doesn't seem to apply to measuring lung capacity.

Today I learned the true name of true name.

Correct. It's also possible that, as a candidate, demonstrating token emotional attachment to a job posting positively correlates with advancing through the candidate funnel.

Your strategy is yours to choose.

That's because you aren't as steeped in medical culture as you are in tech culture and don't hear about it. It is brought up all the time.

Source: my wife just finished her medical residency.

>I don't really care if its open source or not if it does what I want it to do

You care about the utility of your editor, and that's fine. Several other comments here try to highlight ways in which open source projects are more pragmatic, like the ability to make modifications yourself or take advantage of community contributions.

All of that is just arguing about utility, though. For many people open source is a moral issue. RMS is a notable example here. And I prefer open source tools for this reason.

If you believe open source software is morally superior to closed source software then the utility considerations are of secondary, or perhaps even zero, importance.

>Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista... Get them into Stanford, then they have the rest of their life to "fail"

What a terribly unfortunate conception of "failure" and "success" this mindset represents. One that is all to common, but certainly not the only option.

Yeah, congrats to both teams. I agree wholeheartedly with Dan's comment; I love each of your products separately and look forward to playing with the integration down the road, but I'm disappointed to lose the existing Screenhero now.

Early on at Thinkful we were concerned about being able to consistently find skilled mentors to work with students learning front end web development. We hoped expert developers would find our model of mentorship personally and professionally rewarding but we were far from certain. We've built an outstandingly talented team and I attribute much of our success to filtering specifically for those developers and designers who've already come to this realization and decided to act on it.

We use Flask at Thinkful in our Python course for precisely this. Ran into some disappointment from folks who'd prefer to dive directly into Django, but from an instructional perspective we'd much rather introduce something comprehensible than ask students to memorize magic words or incantations.

While I agree with the points made in this post, it's important to note that the strategy of condemning offers with a short term plays in the favor of YC and other established/larger accelerators and to the detriment of newer/smaller accelerators.

As others have noted, there may be compelling reasons to require an offer be accepted on a short timeline or not at all. In fact, as raised elsewhere in this thread, YC itself used to require acceptance the same day the offer was made.

From an entrepreneur's perspective, given two offers at equivalent valuations and terms it's rational to take the offer at the more established accelerator (e.g. YC) over a less well known one. It's also less important for large accelerators to allocate each open position in each cohort, and thus easier for larger accelerators (e.g. YC) to tolerate losing a few deals last minute.

Again, I agree with the points made in the post, but it's important to note that making longer term offers the norm plays in YC's favor.

This, this, a thousand times this. I graduated from a T25 school in 2011. I was one of about 15% of my graduating class that had a job lined up going into their third year, a time when strong candidates were typically choosing between several competing offers.

The proportion of people in my cohort not working in the law (including myself) is small only in comparison to the proportion who regret their career decision now that they've experienced the reality of legal practice.

For anyone considering law school, take a hard look at the criteria above and give yourself honest answers. Appeasing family members isn't worth committing yourself to a career you despise or ruining your finances indefinitely.

That is precisely why the author relies on his smartpen:

"After all, shorthand—at least my shorthand—isn’t foolproof. Even though, for short stretches, I can write 120 words per minute, the average American now speaks at more than 150 words a minute, so something is inevitably lost in the translation. With my trusty Sky smartpen, though, I don’t have to worry. Most of the time, when I get around to writing the story, I can rely on my handwritten notes for short quotes and background information. But when I need a longer, verbatim quote, I can use my notes as a kind of index to find the right part of the interview, and tap there with my pen to hear the playback. No more of the forward/reverse dance with a digital recorder when it’s time to transcribe. It’s an almost flawless system."

The article isn't just about a cool old technology (though he does spend a lot of time on it), but to demonstrate the novel combination of complementary old and new technologies.

First post!

I find hilarious the widespread belief that everyone is expected to spend their first 22 or so years learning full time only to pivot completely away from education once they begin their career.

I've spent the overwhelming majority of my life as a student. I'm certainly not going to let that change just because I'm earning income now.

Scalzi's thoughts on the matter [1] are a classic entry into this genre and make for an enjoyable read.

[1] http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/12/09/a-note-to-you-should-y...

Undergraduate education is not synonymous with vocational training. There is value in degrees like philosophy and other "questionable" majors not directly related to their utility in the job market.

Don't get me wrong: many undergrads would be better off for paying greater attention to the job market and their coming role in it, but education can also be a step towards less tangible goals or an end in itself.