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I'd never really considered this till now but all those "you must wipe the calculator's memory before the exam" rules are totally owned by installing a sufficie
by sleepychu 10y ago
I'd never really considered this till now but all those "you must wipe the calculator's memory before the exam" rules are totally owned by installing a sufficiently deceptive custom OS.
Like another commenter, I wrote some of my first programs on a TI-84, amazing that the school encouraged us to buy them and then completely failed to teach anyone how to use any of the features :'D
- vanderZwan 10y ago> that the school encouraged us to buy them and then completely failed to teach anyone how to use any of the features :'D This is exactly the kind of thing Seymour Papert warned against; just like handing out tablets and then stopping the students from learning how to unlock them for their own uses defeats the whole point.
- sleepychu 10y agoI don't think they actively tried to prevent it but I don't think they understood the power it contained. They were amazed when I showed them the in-built functions to solve many of the problems we were apparently learning to solve as well as the programs I wrote myself to automate tedious homework exercises.
- fimdomeio 10y agoI would say that for future hackers putting a calculator/tablet/whatever in one's hands and then trying to limit it's use just adds to the fun.
- vanderZwan 10y agoThat's good for finding the natural crypto people who like to break out of such crippleware restrictions, but I can't think of anywhere else in the industry where that is useful selection bias.
- eitland 10y agoSenior sysadmins? SW developers above CRUD level?