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ryanmentor

85 karma · joined August 13, 2020

Toronto IRL meetup enjoyer

Would love to have a conversation in person! Please comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767811

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ryanmentor··on John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
Though they caged his body, his soul was unchained.
ryanmentor··on Git undo: We can do better
Are there any git frontends that do this today?
ryanmentor··on Ask HN: As a coding teacher in middle / high school, which tools are you using?
I have been a teacher, tutor, and head of school clubs, as well as director of education for makerspaces.

The tools to focus on are THE FUNDAMENTALS. The fundamentals start with the framing - that means talking about Software Freedoms and our relationship with technology and society.

Then once the foundations are in place, the Free Tech starts to matter. Linux, Firefox, Devtools + html/js, Scratch etc.

Be sure you're clear on what your own goals are. Are you an entertainer, or an educator?

ryanmentor··on Ask HN: Has it suddenly become exceedingly hard to attract full-time employees?
I'm ready to consider a fulltime position, but I want to talk to the CEO instead of someone in HR.
ryanmentor··on Yatima: A programming language for the decentralized web
Dear Language Authors

I have only read the first few paras of the readme and I am in love with this language and you already

Thank you for this!

ryanmentor··on Explainer: What is a global minimum tax and what will it mean?
You have to choose where to draw the line for yourself.

Today, what do you do if you don't want to join society?

More broadly, what DO you want?

ryanmentor··on Nimiq Identicons
This is fun! It even handles emojis! A lot of the identifier names are ... undesireable for me, so I'm having to change characters and search around to get a positive and family-friendly result. Very encouraging work!

ryanmentor becomes "Brown Eating Doctor" with a brown-eating grin. Obviously that's not how I want to be represented!

I made this one bit-by-bit and I rather like it: https://nimiq.github.io/identicons/builder.html#%22backgroun...

ryanmentor··on Explainer: What is a global minimum tax and what will it mean?
If we don't find a way to unify Terra for Terrans, how will we ever be ready to join The Federation?
ryanmentor··on Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
Where are the companies capitalizing on this by issuing memos saying "Everyone who cares about this, come work with us"?
ryanmentor··on FOSS-north 2021 is now live, virtual and streamed for free online
I wish there was a networking event!

Edit: for people to meet and talk to people, like speed networking

ryanmentor··on Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
I have taught robotics enough to have hurt myself in front of a classroom while demonstrating a safety feature. Nothing serious, everyone has a good laugh.

3D printering has also led to some pinching and burning here and there. Worth it!

ryanmentor··on On Freenode and its commitment to FOSS
When someone says that criticism of bad actions 'damages the community', now I know that's the smell of a bad actor.
ryanmentor··on “Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]
This just muddies the waters further.

Let's get concrete: What assets does Freenode have, and who legally owns them?

ryanmentor··on Missing line in a smart contract leads to $10M hack
Kleros Digital Courts, if their story holds through.
ryanmentor··on Ask HN: How do you generate higher-quality ideas?
Time and Time and Space and Space are necessary for high quality creativity : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

and working with solid principles, from first principles, is how you reach durable new understandings. IMO.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has some great material about the use of principles in being personally creative.

Inventing on Principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

I serve as a creativity coach to builders, innovators, and founders. Sometimes what a thinker needs more than anything else is a BREAK to BATHE! and then... EUREKA! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)

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