For those interested, I recently found a tool that will convert Markdown files into an ebook. I used it for the Laravel docs, but you could use it for these books too. I'm sure there are other tools, but this was very simple to get going.
Also note that these books are available for purchase as actual official ebooks. If you read the content and find it helpful, I of course appreciate any purchases made. :)
As bad as I feel for the OP, you have to take responsibility instead of blaming Google. Seems like they do a good job of explaining when you empty the trash in Drive:
"Files in your trash are about to be permanently deleted, including Google Docs in your Trash. Warning: When using Google Drive for PC/Mac, Google Docs aren’t actual files saved on your hard drive; they are links to files stored online."
It's just very unintuitive and it deviates from the popular and most accepted paradigm. I would think Google drive syncs your actual files, and that it would just choose Google Docs as its default editor.
Google Docs, however, does not provide "actual files" with substantive content for its native documents, you have to export them to other formats to have "actual files".
> Unless children are given both sides of the story - the value of bible study vs. the criticisms - and then choose to study it, then you are effectively force-feeding religion to someone in their formative years.
You assume that homeschooled kids are not given opportunity to learn both sides. And when have you found this to be the case in a public school?
Regarding "force-feeding": It's ridiculous to think that a parent's beliefs and ideas about the world/religion/culture/science/whatever would not have an impact on a child's beliefs.
I was also homeschooled for the most part (k-4, 6-10, then college) and consider myself an excellent speller. For my fifth grade year, I went to a private school where I competed in a spelling bee and won at the school level, then at the state level against other private schools for my grade level. I have never found spelling to be deficient among the homeschoolers I know - quite the opposite in fact.
If you want a broader dataset, check out the data from Retrosheet (http://www.retrosheet.org/). You can get box scores and play-by-play data from many years back to dive really deep into stats. You can use Chadwick command-line tools (http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/) to parse the data into SportsML or other formats.
I had a strange experience with these guys. I signed up and didn't get anything back. When I sent an e-mail two days later telling them to just forget it and cancel my account, they told me they were busy and didn't get around to setting up my VPS. Just weird...
Iirc, it's basically two people, the owner and an employee, and the owner does most things himself, from assembling servers to setting up accounts. Provisioning in particular he admits is currently rather suboptimal. I've had a good experience overall, though.
Yup. big problems in that department. Most things are semi-automated. I do have it setup so that once a user is setup, they can boot into a rescue image, change the kernel, access the serial console, etc... without my help, though.
But, it is a pretty big problem if someone needs a new instance right away, or if someone needs an upgrade right away, and for system problems that don't hit my pager (though we're working on improving that one.)
Billing is not automated. I'm months overdue and I just got a personal email asking if I still wanted my account. It doesn't matter. Prgmr is hands down the best hobby VPS provider (I can't comment for other scenarios).
