Blame the UK. Our chocolate was so adulterated that it would have all become something else. What a fuss was made in the press! "They're banning our chocolate!" Nope.
If you want to use rPi, you can use a rooted Nook as a display via ssh or VNC... but then again, the Nook itself is almost as powerful as the Pi, so that's only worth doing if you really need something the Pi has (like the graphics or sound hardware).
The ebook thing is good advice, but I'd suggest going for the Nook Simple Touch Glowlight. Root it for full access to Android. Now you have an ultralow power portable computer. Android packages are available for most popular languages, and even though the Nook doesn't run the latest OS version, that will only rule out some of the fancier IDEs -- almost all the command-line language tools will work.
That totally depends on what sort of work you want to do with your coding skills in the future, now doesn't it?
This. Oh, and it also depends on what he/she already knows.
I could say "Download an introduction to C" and then be told "I worked for 10 years coding embedded systems in C using only the standard library." I could say "get an ARM emulator and learn the fundamentals of RISC assembly programming, and then be told "I plan to work in Machine Learning and have no use for machine code."
There are far too many unknown constraints to the question.
Knowing historical trivia about a system from 40 years ago that was used by almost nobody is not particularly important.
Knowing the state of the art is important. Khan Academy is by no means the state of the art -- it's a one-size-doesn't-actually-fit-all video course that broke the decades-old mold only in being short videos rather than TV-program-length ones.
The state-of-the-art is adaptive learning systems that track individual progress and performance, and present problem sets that specifically target the learner. Posters here have stated that PLATO was adaptive, which makes it more advanced than KA. If the government is going to take low-budget amateur crap like KA and use it as a model for the improving public education... well, yuck.
You have no idea how difficult it is to write a good lesson for any subject. Most coding tutorials are written by coders who have no idea how little a beginner knows, and they only really useful to coders learning a new technology. Some tutorials are written by people who understand how little beginners know, but only because they themselves are beginners, which unfortunately means that they don't understand the language.
Even a lot of the courses on Coursera etc aren't perfect, as the teachers are trying to directly drop in material from face-to-face courses without the two-way communication of tutorials and computer lab sessions. They also inherit their presumed knowledge from the host institution's degree course syllabus, which means they aren't particularly general.
If we start talking about private homes, the issue of consent/release forms comes up -- privacy in public places vs private homes is a very different legal matter. While the police are allowed to film and keep records of them carrying out their duties, that's very different from a commercial entity releasing that footage for publix consumption.
The crowdsourced data is free for non-commercial use.
Yes, but that makes it "free as in beer", not "free as in data-wants-to-be".
I can see practically no useful non-commercial purpose for such data, as the only sensible use for it is in recruitment, which is a decidedly non-non-commercial use.
As it's a startup, I'm assuming they're aiming to make a profit which means they want to sell the data to firms in and around the recruitment sector. And they want the public to do lots and lots of unpaid work so that they can datamine lots of data that no-one else will be able to work with. I'm guessing they don't want a single "correct" tree, but will be explicitly looking for the various repetitions and redundancies, so that they can map out equivalences both across languages and within languages. That data will be used to inform automated CV readers and datamine applicant databases and job databases not just by exact keyword matches, but by related matches.
It sounds like a brilliant machine learning project, but it relies on the public donating millions of man-hours to a for-profit company, with no direct benefit to the donors.
A) Al Capone was done for tax evasion, and the evidence against him was drawn from his annual returns.
B) Capone, although guilty, was subject to a miscarriage of justice. His sentence was unusually long for the crime he was convicted of. He was essentially punished for his mob work even though he was never convicted of it.
C) Plenty of people have used this exact same thing before. It's a move for dismissal/mistrial on the grounds of a tainted jury. It is far from unknown for cases to be dropped because media attention on a suspect has compromised the ability to hold a fair trial. This is why there are laws to block news outlets from reporting pertinent facts in a case before the trial. This is what the term sub judice, as per my previous message, refers to.
So what was that about jokes and smarter people...?
Great. Now all the mobsters and thugs and crooked cops will know to blare Top 40 to prevent evidence from being posted online.
No, now the mobsters will know not to blare Top 40 so that the evidence can all be posted online and their lawyers can move for a mistrial on grounds of sub-judice evidence being released into the public domain.
that there is to rethink is the public records laws.
Police footage should be held by a branch of the civil service not linked to the police hierarchy, so that evidence can't be "accidentally" deleted by the police. That footage should not be considered "public record" due not only privacy matters, but also due process/presumption of innocence/protection of witnesses. (You don't release witness testimony or suspect interview notes as "public record", do you? Why should footage be any different?
Any public request for access should involve either a crime number or a complaint number directly relating to the footage you're looking for, so any fishing expeditions would effectively be perjury.
Seems to me that putting up barriers to women working on the streets getting off the streets is counter-productive.
Would you rather have your daughter working the streets as a prostitute for a pimp or dancing in a strip club with bouncers, etc.?
A) I didn't say it was the right solution. B) You're ignoring the option of "working in a strip club as a prostitute", which was what I was talking about.
And now we've got two groups of women to think about. By making it harder to run a brothel, more prostitutes end up working the streets, which isn't good. But on the other hand, addressing the strip-club-as-front problem may help to reduce the stigma against stripping, as lots of people generally assume that strippers really are just prostitutes who pretend not to be.
You know, it's weird. I hear people all the time saying "I don't have a problem with religious people, apart from when they try to impose their rules on us," but then seconds later, the illusion of reasonableness is shattered when someone tries to use a theological argument to oppose a radical and gets told to fuck himself.
Me, I'm not religious. I used to be, but I'm not any more. Unlike the GP, I've no idea what's in the Song of Solomon, but like him, I immediately recognise that the biblical reference is to "adultery" and not "fornication".
You can actually discuss this sort of stuff if you want, or you could dismiss the majority of your species as idiots. Your call.
The licence is to verify you have a valid reason for being naked in public, which would otherwise be illegal.
In particular I suspect that it's to make sure that once you're naked you only fulfil that valid reason, and don't hand out any "extras" that might get your license revoked....
Obvious answers: underage dancers, human trafficking, tax collection.
Another answer: prostitution. Think about it: if a strip club is just a front for a brothel (plenty are, plenty aren't) then such a law is a problem for the owners. If the dancers get hauled in for prostitution, do you think they're likely to get a stripper's license ever again? So the clubs have an incentive to stay legit, and the dancers have an incentive to walk out on a boss who asks them to risk their careers....
Oh and it's means "it is", always surprises me when programmers can't get that right.
Why are you surprised? Hardly anyone ever does, in any profession, and even after studying English to degree level (as a native) I still often make mistakes like that when I'm at a keyboard.
Hell, I even sometimes type "=" instead of "==" in my code. I need to force myself to start saying "is equal to" while I type ==, like I did back when I was learning.
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Have you any idea how many ideas have been released free by academics? Clearly not.
Blame the UK. Our chocolate was so adulterated that it would have all become something else. What a fuss was made in the press! "They're banning our chocolate!" Nope.
If battery life is a concern, swapping out the LCD for a Pixel Qi display might be worth looking into. Low power and sunlight-readable.
If you want to use rPi, you can use a rooted Nook as a display via ssh or VNC... but then again, the Nook itself is almost as powerful as the Pi, so that's only worth doing if you really need something the Pi has (like the graphics or sound hardware).
The ebook thing is good advice, but I'd suggest going for the Nook Simple Touch Glowlight. Root it for full access to Android. Now you have an ultralow power portable computer. Android packages are available for most popular languages, and even though the Nook doesn't run the latest OS version, that will only rule out some of the fancier IDEs -- almost all the command-line language tools will work.
That totally depends on what sort of work you want to do with your coding skills in the future, now doesn't it?
This. Oh, and it also depends on what he/she already knows.
I could say "Download an introduction to C" and then be told "I worked for 10 years coding embedded systems in C using only the standard library." I could say "get an ARM emulator and learn the fundamentals of RISC assembly programming, and then be told "I plan to work in Machine Learning and have no use for machine code."
There are far too many unknown constraints to the question.
On the internet, no-one can feel your touch.
Please name a president in recent memory who didn't use a teleprompter for a prepared speech?
Maybe that one who knew the name of one letter, and even then only because it was his middle name.
Knowing historical trivia about a system from 40 years ago that was used by almost nobody is not particularly important.
Knowing the state of the art is important. Khan Academy is by no means the state of the art -- it's a one-size-doesn't-actually-fit-all video course that broke the decades-old mold only in being short videos rather than TV-program-length ones.
The state-of-the-art is adaptive learning systems that track individual progress and performance, and present problem sets that specifically target the learner. Posters here have stated that PLATO was adaptive, which makes it more advanced than KA. If the government is going to take low-budget amateur crap like KA and use it as a model for the improving public education... well, yuck.
In primary school, I learned to sew, knit and program in Logo. Also papier mâché and finger painting.
In my first two years at high school I had cooking, sewing, woodwork (and working polyacrylic) and a couple of other things.
Then I went on to get three degrees.
You have no idea how difficult it is to write a good lesson for any subject. Most coding tutorials are written by coders who have no idea how little a beginner knows, and they only really useful to coders learning a new technology. Some tutorials are written by people who understand how little beginners know, but only because they themselves are beginners, which unfortunately means that they don't understand the language.
Even a lot of the courses on Coursera etc aren't perfect, as the teachers are trying to directly drop in material from face-to-face courses without the two-way communication of tutorials and computer lab sessions. They also inherit their presumed knowledge from the host institution's degree course syllabus, which means they aren't particularly general.
If we start talking about private homes, the issue of consent/release forms comes up -- privacy in public places vs private homes is a very different legal matter. While the police are allowed to film and keep records of them carrying out their duties, that's very different from a commercial entity releasing that footage for publix consumption.
The crowdsourced data is free for non-commercial use.
Yes, but that makes it "free as in beer", not "free as in data-wants-to-be".
I can see practically no useful non-commercial purpose for such data, as the only sensible use for it is in recruitment, which is a decidedly non-non-commercial use.
As it's a startup, I'm assuming they're aiming to make a profit which means they want to sell the data to firms in and around the recruitment sector. And they want the public to do lots and lots of unpaid work so that they can datamine lots of data that no-one else will be able to work with. I'm guessing they don't want a single "correct" tree, but will be explicitly looking for the various repetitions and redundancies, so that they can map out equivalences both across languages and within languages. That data will be used to inform automated CV readers and datamine applicant databases and job databases not just by exact keyword matches, but by related matches.
It sounds like a brilliant machine learning project, but it relies on the public donating millions of man-hours to a for-profit company, with no direct benefit to the donors.
A) Al Capone was done for tax evasion, and the evidence against him was drawn from his annual returns.
B) Capone, although guilty, was subject to a miscarriage of justice. His sentence was unusually long for the crime he was convicted of. He was essentially punished for his mob work even though he was never convicted of it.
C) Plenty of people have used this exact same thing before. It's a move for dismissal/mistrial on the grounds of a tainted jury. It is far from unknown for cases to be dropped because media attention on a suspect has compromised the ability to hold a fair trial. This is why there are laws to block news outlets from reporting pertinent facts in a case before the trial. This is what the term sub judice, as per my previous message, refers to.
So what was that about jokes and smarter people...?
Great. Now all the mobsters and thugs and crooked cops will know to blare Top 40 to prevent evidence from being posted online.
No, now the mobsters will know not to blare Top 40 so that the evidence can all be posted online and their lawyers can move for a mistrial on grounds of sub-judice evidence being released into the public domain.
that there is to rethink is the public records laws.
Police footage should be held by a branch of the civil service not linked to the police hierarchy, so that evidence can't be "accidentally" deleted by the police. That footage should not be considered "public record" due not only privacy matters, but also due process/presumption of innocence/protection of witnesses. (You don't release witness testimony or suspect interview notes as "public record", do you? Why should footage be any different?
Any public request for access should involve either a crime number or a complaint number directly relating to the footage you're looking for, so any fishing expeditions would effectively be perjury.
That's what he's saying -- officer walks into coffee shop, Katy Perry is on the radio, footage is DMCA'ed
Personally, I give the individual the benefit of the doubt until they prove themselves stupid.
I didn't say it was the right approach, I just said it was a potential reason. I'm not a Washington lawmaker.
Seems to me that putting up barriers to women working on the streets getting off the streets is counter-productive.
Would you rather have your daughter working the streets as a prostitute for a pimp or dancing in a strip club with bouncers, etc.?
A) I didn't say it was the right solution. B) You're ignoring the option of "working in a strip club as a prostitute", which was what I was talking about.
And now we've got two groups of women to think about. By making it harder to run a brothel, more prostitutes end up working the streets, which isn't good. But on the other hand, addressing the strip-club-as-front problem may help to reduce the stigma against stripping, as lots of people generally assume that strippers really are just prostitutes who pretend not to be.
You know, it's weird. I hear people all the time saying "I don't have a problem with religious people, apart from when they try to impose their rules on us," but then seconds later, the illusion of reasonableness is shattered when someone tries to use a theological argument to oppose a radical and gets told to fuck himself.
Me, I'm not religious. I used to be, but I'm not any more. Unlike the GP, I've no idea what's in the Song of Solomon, but like him, I immediately recognise that the biblical reference is to "adultery" and not "fornication".
You can actually discuss this sort of stuff if you want, or you could dismiss the majority of your species as idiots. Your call.
The licence is to verify you have a valid reason for being naked in public, which would otherwise be illegal.
In particular I suspect that it's to make sure that once you're naked you only fulfil that valid reason, and don't hand out any "extras" that might get your license revoked....
Obvious answers: underage dancers, human trafficking, tax collection.
Another answer: prostitution. Think about it: if a strip club is just a front for a brothel (plenty are, plenty aren't) then such a law is a problem for the owners. If the dancers get hauled in for prostitution, do you think they're likely to get a stripper's license ever again? So the clubs have an incentive to stay legit, and the dancers have an incentive to walk out on a boss who asks them to risk their careers....
Q: What do you call a certificate without a record?
A: Counterfeitable.
Oh and it's means "it is", always surprises me when programmers can't get that right.
Why are you surprised? Hardly anyone ever does, in any profession, and even after studying English to degree level (as a native) I still often make mistakes like that when I'm at a keyboard.
Hell, I even sometimes type "=" instead of "==" in my code. I need to force myself to start saying "is equal to" while I type ==, like I did back when I was learning.