great article, having lived in New Mexico for many years I understand the passion of the people who looked for his treasure in the Rocky Mountains and especially the southern Rockies / Sangre de Cristo area...
This is one of the best pieces I have read on Forrest to date.
Well just to express my bias I am a big fan of open source and contribute to several open source projects; one of which I could see talking to your API if you had one. Also, not sure how many people have developed your application, but having lots of feedback from a community on discord or some such service; especially if in the future you decided to open source the project could solidify your project as the go to open source project in this space. I am not aware; but others could chime in current open source projects of this completeness like yours that are open source.
An example of an app that might want to integrate with your service could possibly be tools like https://www.notion.so
Just curious are you going to have a Github repo for applications that want to integrate with your product. Do you have any type of API that can talk to your app ? What programming language is your app written in and what front end framework are you using ?
If you love the wilderness, love being out there in nature, this is as close as you can almost get in our modern world. I have an incredible respect for people who do these adventures and live to tell their stories...
and then tell them in a way that resonates with the way I would tell the story too...
>> They've added a right-sidebar that shows various info about the repo in general, like what the last release is.
How do I get rid of the right-sidebar ? This is terrible and a complete waste of real estate. And hopefully someone will tell me how to get rid of it... Thank you !
5. Niger: Wealth per Adult: $1,017
Niger is the largest nation in West Africa, but more than 80% of its land area is in the Sahara Desert, so it is prone to drought and famine. The GDP as of 2017 was $9.87 billion, but the wealth per adult remained low despite economic reforms.
That trade school which is now CMU did not start out being a hyper expensive prestige driven university. For years prior to the computer era it was a humble university in Pittsburgh.
"In 1900, he donated $1 million for the creation of a technical institute for the city of Pittsburgh, envisioning a school where working-class men and women of Pittsburgh could learn practical skills, trades and crafts that would enhance their careers, lives and communities."
It was not until the dawn of the computer era that things started to change.
Besides monarchs in the past, for the first time in the history of Planet Earth we have many people and corporations that have more money than governments and so with that comes the responsibility of "acting accordingly". I believe that in a good light this will continue to assist humanity in ways never thought of before as human ingenuity is always more nimble than large bureaucratic organizations.
For me the testament as to the quality of this product is to look at the Rust doc ecosystem. Anyone who has read the Rust docs knows how well done the presentation of the material is
I am really happy I found this blog post. If you like this one you should check out some of his other posts. He has some amazingly insightful other posts on Rust including some very in depth topics. Also, a great comparison of Rust and Go. This is also why I love Hacker News. I would have never found these posts if this one had not made it to page one.
I think its really cool that we are now making movies / documentaries of people in our field / industry that have done good work. I love to see our industry evolve to a place where the developers themselves can self fund a whole entire platform and make it sustainable long term. This documentary about the life of Evan You and how he succeeded in doing it is an inspiration to us all. Let the show begin !
Thanks so much for your reply, you opened up my eyes and knowledge to something that is so trivial; its amazing it took me this long to figure out such a simple thing. There are so many things in life that are like that, and that is why I enjoy it :)
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