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by qq66 5y ago
I searched quite a bit. None of the LOGOs available today are as easy to use for a 5 year old as the Apple II version was for me. #1 reason is that 5 is still young to use a mouse effectively, so a keyboard UI is much more functional.
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by qq66 5y ago
It was a Final Jeopardy clue last year: https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6979
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by qq66 5y ago
Sure, but what is that software?
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by qq66 5y ago
The hardware is the easy part. It's the software that's the tricky part. That Apple II software was something a 5 year old could have fun with, which a REPL would be hard to do. It had enough rails to be usable but enough user inp
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Ask HN: How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?
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by qq66 5y ago
In Iceland, 1 in 10 people will publish a book. Very few of them will get rich off it. The human need to express is older than agriculture. It's older than civilization. Creation is an essential part of what it means to be human.
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An Optimist's Case for the Metaverse: Why VR will make the world a better place(amaldorai.substack.com)
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by qq66 9y ago
I once worked on a piece of lab equipment where I needed to fit a plate into a robotic dispenser and then click the button to "start program." I didn't want to keep switching my hands from the dispenser to the mouse so I wire
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by qq66 9y ago
And, plenty of surgeries are done in situations where speed matters more than the quality of the surgery (emergency tracheotomy, amputation, etc.)
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by qq66 9y ago
Same thing happened to me with Wikipedia. I made a time-consuming, cited edit to an article and it was immediately backed out. Now I completely ignore factual errors in Wikipedia, including one that I just looked up and found is still there
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by qq66 9y ago
Doesn't really matter, since anyone who cares about the software they use left the Podcasts app five years ago.
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by qq66 9y ago
Amazon is way too powerful for a few articles here and there, in the Washington Post or elsewhere, to make much of a difference.
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by qq66 9y ago
You can't do that when you're making a critical review for a newspaper. If you criticize someone's product you have to make sure that you gave that product every chance to succeed -- if the system failed and you installed you
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by qq66 9y ago
This sounds like a Black Mirror episode. A large kennel where tens of thousands of dogs are kept with Amazon Cloud Cams streaming their videos to their "families."
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by qq66 9y ago
Not sure that any of this crap is needed in the suburbs. Just have a smart-locked container and refrigerator outside your front door.
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by qq66 9y ago
This comment is written on iOS 9. Still don't feel like I'm missing anything.
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by qq66 9y ago
There are too many different "military applications" to say that. For sending a drone into a building with possible enemy soldiers, a rotary-wing is definitely better than a fixed-wing.
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by qq66 9y ago
Holgas shoot 6x6 or 6x4.5.
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by qq66 9y ago
You can use stream.io for marketing, email, etc. and use something like stream-dot-io.com or 2556369863227.com for production APIs.
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by qq66 9y ago
Most technology since the plough has eventually accelerated the consolidation of power of institutions over individuals.
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by qq66 9y ago
The "side project" culture is a by-product of not having a standardized approach to professional development in software engineering. Doctors, teachers, and pilots are all expected to refresh their skills, and their time to do thi
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by qq66 9y ago
Surgeons, plumbers, dentists, and gardeners are licensed, bonded, and insured, entrusting the certification process to a third party. Surgeons and dentists also have professional development baked into their work schedules, which software e
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by qq66 9y ago
I could seriously think that. A pocket calculator has a ~200KHz processor and an LCD with an update time of maybe 10ms. A single digit calculator operation like addition would be a few clock cycles, so say a total time of 15ms with output b
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by qq66 9y ago
In what country can you never be arrested for a Facebook post?
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by qq66 9y ago
Anyone who has read any of Lincoln's papers knows that simply isn't the way he would talk, or really anyone from his time period. The language that we use today around innovation, envisioning futures, boldly creating the world we
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by qq66 9y ago
I was actually not very good at debate but very good at reading fast, from rapping along to songs on the radio. I only did one year of debate but won several rounds by simply "spreading" so many arguments that the other team could
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by qq66 9y ago
I don't think that you need to worry about the transferability of skills from a 11-year-olds toy to professional software development. The far more important thing to transfer is interest/excitement, and that may (or may not -- yo
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by qq66 9y ago
My niece could really like this. She's really into "girly" stuff like princesses and flouncy dresses. Something where she programs her jewelry will be far more interesting to her than something where she programs a race car.
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by qq66 9y ago
> As an aside, I’ll never understand why people get so upset for rich people making bad bets and losing a bunch of money. I think people are more upset about what companies don't get funded rather than which VCs lose their money (mo
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by qq66 9y ago
I only raise the point about "Trump shutting down Facebook" in response to the comment "Facebook can be shutdown by POTUS in an instant." It simply isn't true. The President of the United States often can't eve

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