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by sdg1 11y ago
For a nice study of how this law extends to online peer production communities, see https://mako.cc/academic/shaw_hill-laboratories_of_oligarchy...
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by sdg1 11y ago
There's a somewhat relevant concept in Seymour Papert's book Mindstorms. Papert talks about "body-syntonicity" where the act of drawing a circle on the computer screen with LOGO can be seen as bridging children’s sense a
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by sdg1 11y ago
Computers and the World of the Future ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-world-future ) is a highly recommended read. It's not a "history" text per-se, but rather, it is a transcript of a numbe
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by sdg1 12y ago
> except that keyboard layouts and input (esp. on mobile devices) is an even bigger mess and even more fragmented than character encoding. Encoding was in a similar place 10-15 years ago. Almost every publisher in Bengali had their own
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by sdg1 12y ago
> Is Bengali your first language? Yes. > [...] it's rather confusing mental acrobatics, and it doesn't reflect either how the writing system is taught, or how native speakers use it and think of it on a day-to-day basis. Men
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by sdg1 12y ago
> The Bengali fonts that you have installed happen to render it as a jophola It's not only the Bengali font - the text rendering framework of my operating system also needs to have a bunch of complex rules to figure out that a joph
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by sdg1 12y ago
Not sure if the l33tspeak analogy is fully justified. In case of the "missing" letter (called khanda-ta in Bengali) for the Bengali equivalent of "suddenly", historically, it has been a derivative of the ta-halant form (
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by sdg1 12y ago
You should take a look at the ScratchEd community - they have a lot of resources for educators: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ Also, we have started to build a Scratch Extension system, where Javascript can be used to ex
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by sdg1 12y ago
Almost there with SSL - we will be rolling it out for testing by the community in the next month, and we hope to get the entire site SSL only by summer 2015. Sorry it took so long. (One of the annoying things when we tried rolling SSL out a
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by sdg1 12y ago
(Member of the Scratch team here) 1) There's a super useful Scratch Curriculum guide - made by the folks from ScratchEd. http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/scratch-curriculu... 2) Blockly seems to be under
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by sdg1 12y ago
Cynthia Solomon (the co-author of the memo) maintains a collection of interesting documents and videos from and on the early days of Logo: http://logothings.wikispaces.com/ (especially: http://logothings.wikispac
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Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU(visual6502.org)
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by sdg1 12y ago
An Android version is planned for later.
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by sdg1 12y ago
Whoops! It should be fixed now. (Thanks for reporting!)
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by sdg1 12y ago
We have a work-in-progress HTML5 version as well: https://github.com/LLK/scratch-html5