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by mathnmusic 6y ago
I have been adding a number of these free books at https://learnawesome.org/ Do you really care about the format being PDF or is it about the books being FREE? I'd like to make common queries like yours easier. LearnAw
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Yes. This is basically teaching how to give instructions to a robot that does exactly what you tell it to - nothing more and nothing less! Recipes are nothing but simple algorithms including branches and loops, may be even procedures.
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For my daughter (she's now 7), I followed this sequence: - Exact instructions challenge (from YouTube) - LightBot app on Android - Scratch with Harvey Mudd College's course on edX Snap! has some nice features but the community asp
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Hoping that it's okay to share LearnAwesome's (my open-source project) computer-science topic page here: https://learnawesome.org/topics/2680f6d5-b662-4cc3-99e5-e748...
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by mathnmusic 6y ago
I think every new notebook project should take ideas from Julia's Pluto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8DjrQSSk Working directly with the source files is just one of the niceties it has.
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And a browser extension that suggests open-source alternatives based on the current page's URL: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/better It also allows you to submit new recommendations via the extension itself whi
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by mathnmusic 6y ago
You know what would be a great goodwill-building move from Github and Microsoft? Them running a Matrix server instance and provide a chat room for each Github repo. This is what Gitter used to offer. Federation allows even competitors to in
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by mathnmusic 6y ago
Blinkist and similar tools are a good enough solution for this. But those are locked up behind a paywall. I've been importing links to book summaries (along with authors' TED talks, podcasts etc) in LearnAwesome.org (my open-sourc
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by mathnmusic 6y ago
Is Zulip Chat close to what you have in mind?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you own > 50% and get the ability to reverse transactions, it can still go undetected. So it's possible to hurt others without hurting yourself.
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Why create a new app instead of simply running a matrix.org server instance?
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I'm not sure it will be as secure as captchas though. Browsers will probably allow dummy platform authenticators for ease of development, which can be used by bots as well.
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Webauthn may make it easy because it supports platform authenticators like Touch ID / Face ID. Two good demos are at http://webauthn.me/ and https://webauthn.io/ It's now supported in all major br
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by mathnmusic 6y ago
And what about when browsers (like Brave) start supporting IPFS natively, and gateways are not needed any more?
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The parent was complaining about being forced to use OS X. So, the "walled garden" is intended for the underlying hardware.
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> Proof-of-work incentivizes cheap & renewable energy investment. Energy will become cheap even for malicious actors, so bitcoin hash difficulty will have to go up in order to keep it costly for them to fake transactions. Which means
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Internet has some amazing learning resources these days. Not just articles like these and videos, but also interactive explorables. Even my 7yo was able to understand basic aspects of game theory and complex systems with the help of explora
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Apple is not affiliate, it's a gatekeeper. Affiliate increase discovery to something that was already reachable through other means. If you already know me and trust me, you still can't install my app without paying the gatekeepin
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It's because we could never get users to care about open-source software. Users continue to lap up closed-source software and that's what leads to billions for these companies.
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I built a Rails app with exactly that set up: sharding, dynamic switching of read/write queries across multiple slaves 10 years ago. It wasn't hard at all. Ruby's full dynamic nature makes many things easy.
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Nassim Taleb also argues this in his "Minority rule". That all it takes a stubborn minority to bring along changes. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing.
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Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel(gist.github.com)
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Retailers do not operate as marketplaces or storefront services though, do they?
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I prefer the open-source equivalent https://responsively.app/ which is improving much faster due to community contributions.
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Any phone that has speakers, must be having an on-device DAC, even if there's no headphone jack.
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Flutter+Dart is a good choice for this because they already have a goal of supporting 5 platforms with a single codebase: Android, iOS, Web, Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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I was disappointed how Gitbook, after going the SaaS way with v3, has broken compatibility with their own v2 cli. If you export markdown files from gitbook.io, gitbook-cli v2 is unable to import them and turn into static HTML files because
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Yesterday, this youtuber exhorted its viewers to submit at least 20 PRs in not-so-popular repos so that at least 4 remain unmarked as "invalid" to qualify for free t-shirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9902nonY
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Why would lint/tests fail when docs or README are sabotaged?
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One of the best features of Gitter is that it can be embedded on webpages which reduces a lot of friction for public communities. Please keep that feature and perhaps, even replicate it in Matrix. This can be a unique value prop for both ov

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