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by zarify 7y ago
I think Adventure Mode and also the stuff available in Education Edition might make Minecraft a bit more of a long-term prospect there. You can make stuff for your kids to explore or do (either on rails or unguided), and there's quite
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by zarify 7y ago
Speaking as an Australian, a “Freedom” prefix makes it sound like yet another cheesy American grab at patriotism. (This may come across as snark, but it seriously isn’t. “Freedom” anything has been polluted, IMHO)
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by zarify 7y ago
I've been doing this for years with Gmail but the issue with breach notification services like HIBP / Monitor is that you can't add wildcards into your search for notifications, so unless I plug in every me+service@domain ema
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by zarify 7y ago
Monitoring doesn't have to be tech. It could be something as simple as computer use happens in family areas during formative years. Also if kids are comfortable talking to you about what they do because parents are understanding rather
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by zarify 7y ago
I use them both at my school (7-12) and at the Coder Dojo I mentor at (mostly kids years 4-7-ish) and they are an absolute hit. I've been having a blast looking at different concepts and projects which I can use when teaching Digital T
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by zarify 7y ago
The Siralim games are some that capture some of what Pokemon is for mobile (although the controls aren't really optimised for touch with on-screen D-pad and virtual A/B buttons), although I suppose it's more like some of the
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by zarify 8y ago
Whilst the facial recognition aspect of this and the Chinese tie-ins with total monitoring of its populace are one aspect, in schools (at least in Australia, and I assume many others) large amounts of centralised data on behaviour, performa
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Repl.it GFX Public Beta: Build Games and GUI Apps(repl.it)
1 points by zarify 8y ago|0 comments
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by zarify 8y ago
I miss Fireworks too, but Affinity Designer has become my go-to for all things vector design.
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by zarify 8y ago
Not really that surprising since there seems be a lot of focus on things like Minecraft Education Edition, which isn't Java based. (Which, as a teacher, I am finding a fantastic tool for both introductory programming and other topics)
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Ask HN: Resources for mathematical/scientific programming
2 points by zarify 8y ago|0 comments
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by zarify 8y ago
Affinity’s Designer and to a lesser extent Photo. They’ve done a great job at reducing the complexity of illustration and photo editing and making it just really pleasant to do (particularly compared to Illustrator for example).
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by zarify 8y ago
I suppose I didn't consider the amount of additives in current leathers. What are the production costs (environmental, rather than monetary) of the waterproofing? It would be a shame to have something that has very limited impact on th
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by zarify 8y ago
I wish one of their FAQ down the bottom was about water resistance.
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by zarify 9y ago
Would this be open market where Google keeps killing YouTube compatibility with Amazon kit?
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by zarify 9y ago
Considering Apple's constant shifting of goalposts with macOS, what counts as "significant" in your book, even disregarding user-facing features? And how significant is the ~$50 they want for it?
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by zarify 9y ago
I know it's not the same thing, but I use TripMode on macOS for your last two points, which selectively blocks app access based on what network you're connected to.
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by zarify 9y ago
I guess I don't really understand the point of it, but what is $1B "worth" of Bitcoin actually useful for? I saw one of the other comments link to daily trading volume, but I read those values as consisting of putting a dolla
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by zarify 9y ago
Nifty, I hadn't seen Calliope before. I'll check it out next time I buy some experimental kit for my classes.
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by zarify 9y ago
You can hook up lots of the popular kit that works with Arduino to Microbits quite easily (servos, steppers, ultrasonic sensors, extended LED arrays, humidity and moisture sensors). Most of it will work with block code too.
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by zarify 9y ago
Based on my experience the compass is the only part of these I haven't liked. I haven't successfully managed to accurately calibrate one yet, which has really put a crimp on how that feature is used.
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by zarify 9y ago
I've been teaching using these for the last 9 months, using them for an introductory and tactile programming environment (being able to easily switch from block code to Python when they get the concepts is great), learning about how co
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by zarify 9y ago
Nifty, thanks for posting this. I've started using Jupyter Notebooks with my (high school) technologies students this year. I can see this being particularly useful since our sector is shifting everything into the MS cloud, so we can r
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Assange not willing to be a 'complete idiot' over extradition(ab.co)
2 points by zarify 10y ago|0 comments
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by zarify 10y ago
In terms of playtime I think offline mode does stop it being logged. My wifi was stuffed in my game box and about 20 hours of a game weren't logged by the time I got a new adapter and reconnected to Steam servers.
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by zarify 10y ago
I use a Surface Pro 3 for work, with students currently being given the 4. I don't remember noticing much difference between the covers on the 3 and 4, and I find the trackpad on the 3 is bordering on unusable for anything that require
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by zarify 10y ago
I haven't tried the Surface Book, but you're lucky if you can even fit three or more fingers on the trackpads on the Surface Pro. Maybe MS could show some leadership there as well.
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by zarify 10y ago
Yeah I liked that bit about digital tools. I've spent the last five years or so at my last two schools dealing with issues with subscription based "eBooks" that don't play nicely with education department proxies, crappy
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by zarify 10y ago
I doubt open sourcing something moderately complex is as easy or cheap as that though, particularly if there are other technologies involved that you don't own. It's one thing to say it should be open sourced but to put further ef
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by zarify 10y ago
My worry about something like this is it's essentially opening it up to be a remote access tool for anyone that can figure out how to trigger it while not being Apple. I would personally prefer to just lose my phone and have robust mea

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