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by blogimus 18y ago
What kind of problems do your kids want to solve? Find something that will drive them. Do they want to make a website on your home network? There is something with some basically immediate gratification that can grow as they learn.
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by blogimus 18y ago
That whopping 2K ram barrier forced me to be creative, and that awful touchpad. I could never get the tape drive to work properly, so I would keep the system up for days or weeks at a time. Its funny that Syracuse University had this mainfr
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by blogimus 18y ago
First I'd like to mention that I like the toys ideas mentioned here as a tactile introduction. How did you learn to program? (Seriously, I'd like to know how fellow News.YC members learned) I think for kids the most natural and fun way is
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by blogimus 18y ago
I'm currently using google notebook. It's much faster than google docs. Stuff that I don't want to keep up there, I put on my encrypted usb flash drive or my palm tx. From reading the other posts, it looks like I'm not the only one who is w
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by blogimus 18y ago
I loved his Myth Adventures stories as a kid, and was looking up a character just now on a whim when I found out the sad news. Have you read his works?
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Robert Asprin (1946-2008)(mythadventures.net)
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by blogimus 18y ago
Do you have a favorite open source project? Download the source and try to build the runtime files yourself. Then you have an environment to poke through the code and play with. for example, do you like Python? download the source and creat
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by blogimus 18y ago
Why Broccoli? My curiosity was piqued so I went to your site and found a bit on how to do broccoli, but no links or text jumped out at me as to why to do broccoli. Is it just a novelty, or does it scratch some itch that other languages
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Strokable robot rabbit talks with touch(technology.newscientist.com)
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The Future of the Web: An Old-Fashioned Debate With a Social Media Twist(news.rpi.edu)
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MIT researchers: morphing Web sites could bring riches(networkworld.com)
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An index for wiki sites(wikindex.com)
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by blogimus 18y ago
Could be that there are a number of twitter fan boys who mod down those they notice who don't toe the line and shine glowing praise for twitter.
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by blogimus 18y ago
I feel like I wasted my time reading that article. I thought by the title "The Alpha Geeks," there would be a chance I get an opinion of who were the new alpha geeks today. Nope, it was a recap of the rise of the geek ending with a corny pl
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by blogimus 18y ago
yep, and mistakes that do not negatively impact functionality or form are collectively called "character."
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by blogimus 18y ago
Has anyone here downloaded and read the book? Is it worth the time?
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by blogimus 18y ago
I've not watched to video, but I think of a woodworking page I read a long time ago following the paths of a power tool guy and a hand tool guy learning their craft. Through enough practice, they eventually converge on a generally common se
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Computer Programs Decide Humans' Fates, Set Social Policy, Panelists Say(blog.wired.com)
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Cat brain could provide bionic eye firmware(technology.newscientist.com)
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by blogimus 18y ago
I'm sorry, I can't answer that, I don't have enough context from your question. Joking aside, I generally agree with what nostrademons said. We live in an imperfect world and sometime will fall, best we can hope is that the mistake is smal
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by blogimus 18y ago
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Video search engine watches and learns(technology.newscientist.com)
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A baseball cap that reads your mind(physorg.com)
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by blogimus 18y ago
This is a great simple example of social engineering.
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by blogimus 18y ago
This submission will probably never see the light of day now that it is buried at least 160 days deep, but I really enjoyed reading it
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by blogimus 18y ago
I experience the same thing as I haven't gotten many chain letters in a long time. This is due, I think, to two things: 1) I trained my family to either stop emailing this stuff or stop emailing me this stuff. I would do a quick search on t
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Making Procter & Gamble New and Improved(time.com)
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by blogimus 18y ago
Have you figured out what your storage and bandwidth needs are going to be and how they will grow as your user base grows and how price fits in as a factor? Can you afford a lot now, only a little bit? Have you checked out the web for hosti
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by blogimus 18y ago
With 500 developers, I'd guess you have some serious infrastructure in place. Why do you want to switch? Do you have real pain or are you kicking tires? What version(s) are you using? Do you currently have your SCM and issue tracking tools
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Tim Berners-Lee and Media Standards Trust win News Challenge grant(journalism.co.uk)
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