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by kranzky 12y ago
I wrote this after the "Is TDD Dead?" debate of a few months ago, and I think it's high time I published and shared. Comments most welcome!
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Quack-Driven Development is a Waterfowl Methodology for Programmers(medium.com)
2 points by kranzky 12y ago|3 comments
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by kranzky 13y ago
I wrote this relatively quickly tonight; just trying to sketch out some idle thoughts on what the future may bring. I think we should all be trying to look beyond the next one hundred years, but it is hard to do that constructively.
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The World of Later On: Thinking One Thousand Years Ahead(medium.com)
1 points by kranzky 13y ago|1 comments
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by kranzky 13y ago
Would be interested to hear what people think; what is the current attitude with regards to chatterbots, speech-recognition, Siri and Kurzweil's singularity? Are we jaded, or is it the beginning of a new era in AI?
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Chinese Room Takeaway: Wiping the Anti-AI Slate Clean with Toilet Paper(medium.com)
1 points by kranzky 13y ago|1 comments
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The Government teaches all children how to write. Here’s why it’s a stupid idea.(medium.com)
2 points by kranzky 13y ago|0 comments
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A Tale of Strange Loops at a Startup Weekend(medium.com)
1 points by kranzky 13y ago|0 comments
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by kranzky 13y ago
We're at a Startup Weekend, and are building an alarm clock for phones that shows an ad for a local indie coffee shop when you wake up each morning, giving you a chance of winning a free coffee there that you must claim on the day you
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Javalarm: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee(signup.javalarm.com)
1 points by kranzky 13y ago|1 comments
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by kranzky 13y ago
That's true, with the exception that learning how to write a program is also a lesson in how to think logically. Rather than teaching everyone to be programmers, the goal could be to use programming as a tool to teach everyone how to t
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by kranzky 13y ago
I understand your point, but I think it comes down to self-discovery. Using the C=64 (and other home computers of the era) enabled you to discover that programming existed as a thing, and then to learn more by digging deeper. Modern compute
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by kranzky 13y ago
Wow, thanks for all the feedback; lots for me to discover and digest :)
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by kranzky 13y ago
But isn't maths boring at school because we're teaching it wrong? See Conrad Wolfram's TED Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OVlfAUPJg
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by kranzky 13y ago
So how about this: embed an RPi into a kids keyboard, and have it boot straight into a Python interpreter with libraries loaded so you can immediately start writing programs that draw stuff on screen and play sounds. Encourage tech-minded p
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by kranzky 13y ago
Completely agree, and I think the problem I'm trying to solve is making sure every kid has the chance to find out whether they want to know more by showing them at a young age that it's actually an option that's open to them.
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by kranzky 13y ago
This documentary tells that story: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/
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by kranzky 13y ago
I think the actual statistic is 1 out of every 12, so closer to 8%.
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by kranzky 13y ago
Oh that's great, I didn't know Khan was doing that!
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by kranzky 13y ago
My money would be on Minecraft.
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by kranzky 13y ago
Well, it sounds like you've been doing a great job. I guess the challenge is figuring out how to scale what you've been doing to allow other volunteers to replicate your success!
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by kranzky 13y ago
The main difference between then and now is that back then you stumbled upon it, and now you need to make a concerted effort to find out where to start.
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by kranzky 13y ago
That's awesome; I'd love to do something like that here, and I agree that it'll go some way towards redressing the balance. I'd love to see all kids in all schools being given that kind of experience as part of the regul
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by kranzky 13y ago
It's true that modern games and apps set the bar high. But the stuff I produced on the C=64 when I was 14 was equally as basic when compared with the games of the time. It's not about making something as polished as what you can b
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by kranzky 13y ago
Would be interested in discussing feedback on this post; I'm about to enter a Startup Weekend, and would love to do something that could address this problem.
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The Commodore 64 Spike: A Freakonomics-ish Theory of CS Education(medium.com)
50 points by kranzky 13y ago|57 comments
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Sangaku: Guesstimate the "pole of inaccessibility" for an arbitrary polygon(devblog.agworld.com.au)
1 points by kranzky 14y ago|0 comments
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by kranzky 14y ago
Sure, we do, in fact, use RABL ( https://github.com/nesquena/rabl ) for much of our JSONifying needs. In general a much better solution than calling .to_json on objects directly. However, we also have situations where we have a reasonably l
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by kranzky 14y ago
true that (but it is the title of the blog post)
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The performance of .to_json in Rails sucks(devblog.agworld.com.au)
11 points by kranzky 14y ago|5 comments

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