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Re:The Elegance of the ASCII Table on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:27PM (#41042239)
I also wrote a chat novel about ASCII: https://www.lostlanguageofthemachines.com/chapter2/chat
Love the design!
Thank you all for the feedbacks, and extra thanks for those who read all three chapters. The consensus is the content is too hard for younger readers and I agree. I do have some ideas to improve, and will work on them in the coming weeks.

And I will probably ask for feedback again soon.

Thanks. I will check it out.
Thanks, that is good advice. You totally get it that I am trying to paint a future scene, but somehow did not deliver. This is the first time I wrote any long story in my life. I tried on my own kids but that is too small sample size.
At very beginning I want to do it in comic style, kinda like “beast academy” style. But my art skill sucks, and ai image generator is not as good as I hoped. So I settled with chapter book, at least something I can produce. May be I should go game style "book" to be able to reach younger readers.
how about 5th grader or above?
Thanks for the feedback. I have never done anything like this before so there are tons of mistakes. The flipping thing will generate a time sequence, I find it hard to explain myself.
Thanks. Will check that book out.
That is a good concern. I have to find another way.
Thanks for the feedback. I changed the sentence to something else.
Fixed. Thank you!

Show HN: A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work

https://www.lostlanguageofthemachines.com

I’ve been working on a unique storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work, and I would love to get your feedback.Set 500 years in the future, the story follows two kids – one a robot, the other a human – as they explore the workings of what to them is ancient technology: our present-day computers. I’ve aimed to keep each story short and engaging, sprinkling in humor and...

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Re:Video matters But which hosting service to use? on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @09:43AM (#4543472)
Thanks for the info. We have tried Youku and Tudou on https://railscats-china.com but the embedding quality is bad. Will see whether there are plus account on those services.
Re:A Practical Guide to Use Spine.JS in Real World App on Monday August 20, 2012 @11:35AM (#4408050)
Thanks for the article. It's very helpful.

Have you ever checked artTemplate other than eco? https://github.com/aui/artTemplate

It's very fast: http://aui.github.com/artTemplate/test/test-speed.html

Re:Ask HN: How Much Can I Scrape? on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @03:05AM (#360356)
Do not crawl too fast with yahoo, otherwise you will get 999 error -- which mean you will be banned temporarily.

Search 'yahoo 999' for details.

Powerset (a search engine aquired by MS) is behind hbase development.

I have been using hbase in my project -- an interesting experience.

Re:Twitter Acquires Summize on Thursday July 17, 2008 @02:20AM (#248282)
Apparently summize found a quick exit after switching from book/movie/product review search to twitter search.
Re:Ask HN: managing subdomains cookbook on Thursday June 19, 2008 @09:01AM (#221739)
If they register the domain from you and you operate the DNS server, then you have the information to make changes for the user. I think that is what google does.

If the users own their own domain via a third party, you can not modify their DNS record unless they gives you their account. Or user can transfer domain to you.

Re:Ask YC: Bug tracking software? on Monday June 09, 2008 @01:53PM (#212968)
If you are a rails shop, redmine is good too. I have used jira, mantis, trac, but do not like any of them.
Re:Ask YC: How do you upload to your web server? on Thursday May 22, 2008 @12:27PM (#197236)
I use Capistrano too. It is written in ruby but can be used by any non-ruby project.
Re:Summize: Search Twitter in realtime on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @12:03PM (#188689)
I visited summize.com before. They used to focus on searching book/movie reviews. Now it is totally different.
Re:Are all the good domains taken? on Monday April 28, 2008 @11:55AM (#175702)
Take a look of this one, a little bit of old but still helpful: http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/Interesting-Facts-About-Do...

I registered a 5 letter domain (xruby.com) in 2006. I think there are still 5 letter domains available, but good names are extremely hard to find.

Re:GPL'd Source Code on Saturday April 26, 2008 @11:56PM (#174656)
Right. There is no way you can relicense it. The derived code is still GPL.
Re:Ask YC: Google Code or Sourceforge on Saturday April 19, 2008 @12:58AM (#167863)
Agree, sf.net has too many projects on it and checkin/chekout speed is very slow sometimes. I have a project on Google Code and so far I am happy with it.

I also use github, so far has not seen problems. As ruby on rails moved to git, I believe lots of open source ruby projects may follow.

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