Actually, the beginning of Knuth's book provides a nice soft introduction to programming that would be very suitable for beginners. I just went and read through the first chapter to confirm my memories.
Yes, I am being an optimist and was only slightly being tongue-in-cheek. Knuth is rigorous and strives for completeness, but you don't need to bring any previous experience to start with his AoCP series. Particularly if you come from a Math background, since he works like a mathematician would.
Also, Jobs took up the suggestion he had made to Skully and started selling sugar water to kids, by putting labels for 'free itunes songs' on the bottlecaps of popular brands of soda.
False equivalence. Because Apple has not open-sourced all their software, that doesn't mean they don't open source some of their software.
That example was not 'all their software.' It was a piece of software they promised to open and reneged on. A piece of software that would open their userbase up to videoconference to their friends who they then wouldn't have to urge to buy an iPad.
Buy Knuth's books. The Art Of Computer Programming. The first three volumes should suffice for now. And buy a box of pencils and some paper.
The virtual MIX machine Knuth teaches with doesn't require anything electrical to operate and learn with, unless you're indoors or it is the evening, in which case an electric light will be required.
My ASM code performs EMG measurements with Vaginal electrodes. They were marketing it as electro-kegel for awhile. It's 8-bit ASM, though. And that was 15 years ago.
But C has pointers, which introduces the student to the idea that computers have actual physical memory addresses.
Now, if you are talking about learning to be a dilettante 'application programmer', understanding things like real memory addresses and the sizes of different entities that you store into them is probably distressing. Just go play with Java.
We have more serious threats to worry about. Nazis and the KKK are historical anachronisms. The people who participate in those 'movements' in 2017 are harmless and/or easily identified and neutralized.
We are nerds here. There is nothing wrong with being a nerd. In particular if it means we can tweak our hardware to stomp on the stupid jocks and the consoles they barely understand, then it's alright with us.
The stupid jocks can hire a nerd to set them up if it's a problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, the beginning of Knuth's book provides a nice soft introduction to programming that would be very suitable for beginners. I just went and read through the first chapter to confirm my memories.
Yes, I am being an optimist and was only slightly being tongue-in-cheek. Knuth is rigorous and strives for completeness, but you don't need to bring any previous experience to start with his AoCP series. Particularly if you come from a Math background, since he works like a mathematician would.
Also, Jobs took up the suggestion he had made to Skully and started selling sugar water to kids, by putting labels for 'free itunes songs' on the bottlecaps of popular brands of soda.
The irony was missed by many.
Those battery packs are sold so people can play Pokemon Go for more than a half hour. Grrr...
Apple invented wireless charging just a few weeks from now!
Then I can charge the bluetooth headphones while charging the Apple Phone while listening to music. Who woulda guessed life could be so grand!?!
Millions of college students in dorm rooms got the RIAA to give up on DRM for music.
Jobs rode along for the credit.
Apple will opensource software technology that doesn't threaten their ability to engage in vendor lock-in.
It's not more complicated than that.
That example was not 'all their software.' It was a piece of software they promised to open and reneged on. A piece of software that would open their userbase up to videoconference to their friends who they then wouldn't have to urge to buy an iPad.
We are all in serious trouble on the day when they are asking for Slashdot passwords when we want to cross the border.
The people here with logins, I mean.
Buy Knuth's books. The Art Of Computer Programming. The first three volumes should suffice for now. And buy a box of pencils and some paper.
The virtual MIX machine Knuth teaches with doesn't require anything electrical to operate and learn with, unless you're indoors or it is the evening, in which case an electric light will be required.
My ASM code performs EMG measurements with Vaginal electrodes. They were marketing it as electro-kegel for awhile. It's 8-bit ASM, though. And that was 15 years ago.
Linux from Scratch? Does that mean, umm, that I can build a linux system using the Scratch language on my Raspberry PI?
Oh, and I looked at the webpage and there was stuff about systemd on there.
From scratch? Really? What's the bootstrap process for that?
But C has pointers, which introduces the student to the idea that computers have actual physical memory addresses.
Now, if you are talking about learning to be a dilettante 'application programmer', understanding things like real memory addresses and the sizes of different entities that you store into them is probably distressing. Just go play with Java.
1. In Europe.
2. In 1939.
We have more serious threats to worry about. Nazis and the KKK are historical anachronisms. The people who participate in those 'movements' in 2017 are harmless and/or easily identified and neutralized.
Hey, they might end up with a PDP-11 if we don't clearly define the type to get.
Easy Solution:
Delete the Leaderboards.
Then balance doesn't matter.
People who have a problem with this can get a Special-Ed version of the game that only displays a leaderboard, with their name on top.
We are nerds here. There is nothing wrong with being a nerd. In particular if it means we can tweak our hardware to stomp on the stupid jocks and the consoles they barely understand, then it's alright with us.
The stupid jocks can hire a nerd to set them up if it's a problem.
Anything that convinces the console players to give it up or at least get a keyboard and mouse for their, err, computing device is a good thing.
Game is now in overtime. How will the Patriots cheat their way to a win?
Comcast isn't tech. It's salesmen in mid-priced suits.
There are too many kinds of 'tech work' to really generalize on any particular kind.
Most IT work is Data Janitor Drudgery.
Most Technician work is just hands on craftsmanship.
The bully stopped picking on me when I broke the handle on my clarinet case hitting him with it.
Jockstraps can... well... whatever weird things they want to do in the locker room is okay with me.
Trump is President.
President Trump. Say it out loud. What do we have to complain about?
Are there really any nazis in the US? There are a few thousand KKK idiots, but in 2017 that's like wanting to be an Astronaut when you grow up.
The worst thing anybody can do is take idiots who say they are nazis or kkk members seriously. That gives them credibility.
A curious potential customer on the website asked:
"What kinds of micro sd cards does it support?"
"Olimex Ltd" replies:
"we don’t have anything above 32GB to try"
So that's their official answer? They've not even done that level of testing???
128G micro SD cards are $25 items now.
What an opportunity for a DOS attack. Just penetrate the system and launch a patch that bricks some high percentage of the Net.