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by cgk 3y ago
Visiting a certain urban area on the east coast, dm me on X if possible to meet up
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by cgk 4y ago
Possibly! We post jobs to https://www.scratchfoundation.org/careers
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by cgk 4y ago
Cheers! This is the sort of feedback that makes me cry (in the good way). It was extremely rewarding to have MIT students show up at our group and talking about what effect Scratch had on them and how it helped them make their way to MIT.
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by cgk 4y ago
Thank you for the feedback! I made use of LabVIEW around 2002-2005 and I liked it, working on systems to measure the length of fiber optics down to the femtosecond (it's amazing what you can do with differential wave form/phase an
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by cgk 4y ago
Probably because I do terrible interviews :)
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by cgk 4y ago
"...lacking any ability to create a space where they could build and learn to code in private." Correct, this is by design, the way to go for the private/no on-line community aspects would be to use the downloadable stand-alo
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by cgk 4y ago
Me too! I have had various toy projects that make use of the open source Scratch editor to do this exact thing and writing extensions that would enable this. While our our extension system can enable this, we are very careful about adding e
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by cgk 4y ago
Hello, and apologies, Given our limited resources, we have translated the tutorials (both the spoken language and the written words in the videos as appropriate) into a subset of the languages that Scratch has been translated into (> 50
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by cgk 4y ago
Thank you! I also grew up around the time of HyperCard and BASIC on PCs, and spent hours carefully typing in programs from magazines. I can look back on that and find a lot of warm memories. I can also look at it with a critical eye and que
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by cgk 4y ago
No, thank you! I really mean this, your feedback matters to us as we are continuously working on accessibility issues with both presentation and usability.
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by cgk 4y ago
Full disclosure: Principal Software Engineer here on the Scratch backend... Scratch is not built to be a "teach your kid programming languages" system, it is based on the work and ideas of the Life Long Kindergarten group at the M
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by cgk 6y ago
Given the nature of how twitter has influenced elections, why would this be extreme? So far the known targets all appear to be of a particular political persuasion, but I haven't seen a comprehensive list yet.
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by cgk 6y ago
Github has offered this for years: https://github.com/enterprise MIT used it for a long time.