> 1. These "services" all offer an awful lot of service for free, but have to pay per song played.
How come there is no free (pirate) P2P music streaming service, or at least no popular one? Build it on top of the existing torrent network or something similar so you don't have to start from scratch, add a distributed database so you know where each song is, and tada... is it that difficult?
Pardon the ignorance, but how complex is a library like GPG? How come he still needs to dedicate himself fulltime to it, after almost 20 years? I would have thought, by now, you wouldn't need more than the occasional bug-fix or maybe port to new language standards.
>Most developers only use JavaScript because it's their only realistic option on the client side for web-based applications
Every day that passes that becomes less true, though. Apparently, C compiled to asm.js (or one of the alternatives -- I forget) is already faster than handcoded JS. Just a matter of time before a nicer ecosystem becomes available.
I, for one, am happy about that. While I don't dislike JS as much as you, having choices is good.
At least resistors should be able to be printed directly: just vary the thickness of the layer of resistant material. Not sure about inductors/capacitors, yet alone active components.
There is only so much information you can store in a couple square cm, if you want it to be able to be reliably retrieved by a camera, qr code or not. Your comment.
Paradox finally decided to support Linux. It sometimes lags a bit behind in bugfixes compared to the Windows version, but overall a pretty good experience. Add in a bit of Crusader Kings II and Kerbal Space Program: I don't see myself wanting new games in a good while.
Yes, exactly what we need: Another poorly built gadget for people who already own 2 or 3 smartphones, plus at least one desktop and laptop, and want a new overpriced piece of silicon to, after a week or so of post-adquisition rush, collect dust on their shelves and end up in a landfill a year later. Woohoo!
When a kid wants to know how to solve a particular problem, they're going to learn the maths necessary.
Indeed. That was my experience with my younger brother, around 10 at the time. I showed him a simple reversi (aka Othello) game I had coded in python, with just a simple text representation of the board, fully expecting him, accustomed to 3D games with colorful graphics and all that, to dismiss it inmediately. Not the case. He was so amazed that you could do that, and intrigued by the how, he didn't care for the trivial UI or the English keywords (which he barely understands) in the non-graphical code.
So my advice to the OP would be to focus less on the tools, but more on the content: What would motivate your daughter or other kids to try and understand what makes a computer tick?
Not that much, I think. I am not an expert, but if those are impact metamorphism diamonds, they are probably polycrystalline (composed of lots of small grains of different size and orientation) and not well suited for jewelry.
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> 1. These "services" all offer an awful lot of service for free, but have to pay per song played.
How come there is no free (pirate) P2P music streaming service, or at least no popular one? Build it on top of the existing torrent network or something similar so you don't have to start from scratch, add a distributed database so you know where each song is, and tada... is it that difficult?
People with money to burn want authentic watches
Just not fossils. It would be interesting to hear what the CEOs of traditional (actually Swiss) brands have to say.
I remap it with Esc.
Only problem is, I am so used to it, I have trouble using vim on other people's computer.
> A crash of a 4kg drone *slowed by its parachute*, or a crash of a 4000kg delivery truck?
FTFY
The drone they are testing has a built-in chute. So even if, in the event of rotor failure, it fails to stay airborne it should not do much damage.
Pardon the ignorance, but how complex is a library like GPG? How come he still needs to dedicate himself fulltime to it, after almost 20 years? I would have thought, by now, you wouldn't need more than the occasional bug-fix or maybe port to new language standards.
...great.
>Most developers only use JavaScript because it's their only realistic option on the client side for web-based applications
Every day that passes that becomes less true, though. Apparently, C compiled to asm.js (or one of the alternatives -- I forget) is already faster than handcoded JS. Just a matter of time before a nicer ecosystem becomes available.
I, for one, am happy about that. While I don't dislike JS as much as you, having choices is good.
At least resistors should be able to be printed directly: just vary the thickness of the layer of resistant material. Not sure about inductors/capacitors, yet alone active components.
There is only so much information you can store in a couple square cm, if you want it to be able to be reliably retrieved by a camera, qr code or not. Your comment.
> It's not like you could just plug in an external drive [...]
Why not? Maybe not one, but 10 or 20 of them.
Paradox finally decided to support Linux. It sometimes lags a bit behind in bugfixes compared to the Windows version, but overall a pretty good experience.
Add in a bit of Crusader Kings II and Kerbal Space Program: I don't see myself wanting new games in a good while.
Yes, exactly what we need: Another poorly built gadget for people who already own 2 or 3 smartphones, plus at least one desktop and laptop, and want a new overpriced piece of silicon to, after a week or so of post-adquisition rush, collect dust on their shelves and end up in a landfill a year later. Woohoo!
<quote>... and it's a language the asker is familiar with.</quote>
The asker is familiar with HLSL?
Here: http://colossus.iris.washington.edu/iscgem/download/isc-gem-cat.zip
That's just the last 100 years, though. And be aware that the completness magnitude changes over time.
Just curious... which one do you consider "pinkier"? Canada? Just in case Switzerland != Sweden.
When a kid wants to know how to solve a particular problem, they're going to learn the maths necessary.
Indeed. That was my experience with my younger brother, around 10 at the time. I showed him a simple reversi (aka Othello) game I had coded in python, with just a simple text representation of the board, fully expecting him, accustomed to 3D games with colorful graphics and all that, to dismiss it inmediately. Not the case. He was so amazed that you could do that, and intrigued by the how, he didn't care for the trivial UI or the English keywords (which he barely understands) in the non-graphical code.
So my advice to the OP would be to focus less on the tools, but more on the content: What would motivate your daughter or other kids to try and understand what makes a computer tick?
Thanks. Not the AC, but was in the same situation.
Nomen est omen. Of course Segura finds a way to be safe.
Seriously? Your comparing this to an UPS the one time a car analogy would actually have made sense?
Some good stuff there. The worst offenders, though, still are VST plugin developers.
Not that much, I think. I am not an expert, but if those are impact metamorphism diamonds, they are probably polycrystalline (composed of lots of small grains of different size and orientation) and not well suited for jewelry.
So can someone explain what makes this text editor so popular? Is it features, feel, performance, configurability? A careful balance of all of these?
How does it compare to some of Linux' standard GUI text editors? Say gEdit, kate, geany?
Weird. From here I couldn't even see the decrypted version once. Just see undecyphrable verses.
...John Carmack goes through to add comments, clean up code, ...
That should be part of the deal. Or maybe it's a reason why we don't see more open sourced commercial software?
Probably. Or to put it in kinder words: To appeal to a larger set of potential contributors.