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by prance 10y ago
LightTable started as a clojure/-script IDE which are not imperative but functional languages.
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by prance 10y ago
I was pretty excited about LightTable (which has some similar ideas) when it started out, but then Chris Granger went on to another project and LightTable was left hanging. They open-sourced it, but developer uptake was slow initially and t
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by prance 10y ago
Yes, participation is a difficult thing to ensure in a democracy, and even more so when it's online. A few years ago, I was a member of the German pirate party. We tried to implement "liquid democracy", using Liquid Feedback.
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by prance 10y ago
Sums it up. Most interesting is that more teenagers tend to know what an icon is used for on the computer than what it originally represented. Which makes total sense because they grew up with these icons. So it might make more sense to ask
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by prance 10y ago
Well she didn't have to stand in line for the year ;) No seriously, at some of the bigger and more central places in Nairobi you can now pick a number (and take a guess how long that might take, maybe risk going about some business in
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by prance 10y ago
In 2014, it took 4 months for my wife's Kenyan passport to be renewed. Last year, she applied for a new ID card (to get her new family name on it), and she was able to collect it more than one year later. At least here in Kenya, I&#x27
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by prance 10y ago
This article tells some truths but is pretty confused. It headlines multinationals based in China, India, Russia etc. as the problem but then only mentions that these companies are not accountable in their home countries, allegedly. Apart f