Torwald

Can you give me one or twoo examples for such missing low-level stuff Ruby libraries, please?

> Why would I use this instead of my own domain and a website hosted for free on Netlify or GitHub Pages?

Email subscriptions made easy enough for a non-techie audience to subscribe.

This was also the success secret of the early church. The apostles and shepherds who visited believers in other cities brought with them such social proof in the form of a written letter.

What do you mean with "access to information" in regards to FOSS? That you can examine the algorithm to see how it's done or somethng else?

religion + politics = religion (?) eg. Aztec empire

edit: the Aztec empire is an example for this. The religion was politically enforced and thus the political system became part of the religion.

So the question is, isn't religion a case that refutes the parent's hypothessis.

> Disabled people or folks who are out of the mean in any way are shunted aside by what the busy but blindered tech people think is important.

A notable exeception is the web design community, where making websites accessible was always a topic near the center of the discussion.

Eg. https://alistapart.com/blog/topic/accessibility/

I want to suggest to you that you research AMOS which was a BASIC for the Amiga with very interesting concepts.

I think "spaghetti" is in the eye of the beholder. Alternatively you could argue that GOTO/GOSUB puts BASIC near ASM and that is cool.

I don't know any of their plans.

- With private enterprise in space, you will be able to sell such data to insurance companies, maybe.

- You can sell the data to governments who want to have it for any form of control reasons.

- Science can use that data for exploration, this could potentially lead to breakthroughs, which in turn could lead to markets whose players depend on your data. Or just science labs are buying your data.

I need that with a simpler interface, so I call it after a famous dedective: Sherlock.

I think some of those dramatic terms are more specific, if and when the described occurence is something very unusual. Then they convey (if choosen right) the unusualness and thus gain a higher information density for the outsider.

Are you saying this because of the quote at the end of the page?

> I've always thought that even if you just let the player click a button to activate the random number generator, you give them a sense of control. Perhaps you let them hold the button down for a while just like how players rattle the dice for longer hoping for "luck" in the results.

That's the whole concept of these slot machines in Las Vegas. For some reason it seems vital to have the player his "go".

Michael Hyatt in his "Vision driven leader" book makes a good distinction between vision an mission, which I think is helpful to you. I recommend you read the book, it is right on your avenue.

> Being able to use programming to create art is fantastic.

What do you think about the demoscene?

> This was the basis of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which may be the most scientifically accurate depiction of an encounter with an extraterrestrial intelligence.

This line got me thinking, is Stanislaw Lem's "Swarm" more scientifically accurate than the watchers in Space Odyssey?

One of the factors was Microsoft. The rival Borland was big on Pascal with the venerable Turbo Pascal.

During the years where the mainstream office business landscape transitioned from DOS to OS/2, no wait, Windows, broadly speaking there where two types of application programmers. Those that used C or C++ and those that didn't.

For the later camp MS promoted various flavours of Basic, which also had to do with Office and scripting an Works for DOS etc. But I suspect it was also a "theological" battle against Borland.

On the other platforms Pascal was succesful, but the Amiga and the Atari tanked. The Macintosh escaped that destiny barely. Maybe Swift is the new Pascal?

> I don't use it because I approve of all their stupid pigheaded UI choices

I don't use Ff because I can't approve with exactly one of their UI choices: tab closing button on the wrong side. I am on Mac and this just messes with my muscle memory too much. (It used to be that the buttons where on the right side, which is to say the left side.)

However, other than that I see a lot of UI love in both the macOs and iOS Ff interfaces. One can feel the team works from their hearts.

I wish they would use their brains more. Painful irony.

EDIT: Anybody an idea why this got downvoted?

Habit tracking. With nicey colored cells for being a good boy.

> When the majority of the country doesn't have internet access, a "currency" that you can only transact in via the internet seems like a poor choice.

If the shops have WiFi that's enough. Also, public WiFi. Still, your point stands to a certain extend, connected to your next line:

> It makes it a lot easier for the government to track people

There is indeed a danger to the democratic process here. But I don't know if the solution is to just not do crypto. I don't know what would be best.

> My guess is that most people in El Salvador will download the wallet, get their $30, and then abandon it and just continue to use USD.

My guess BTC takes off over there.

I love the entrepreneurial spirit the shopkeeper keeps in all of this: "When others see a crisis though, I see an opportunity."

Write a cheque for an Oracle consultant.

> using emacs might be tough on mobile

There is an iPhone app for org-mode. It's free as in both. It's called beorg and it works great. Syncs org-mode files over iCloud and let's you edit them via a touch interface. Supports a very big subset of org features.

Witz means wit or joke. Klausel is the technical term in law for clause. Sounds like a good fit for your comment.

> If any of you have a good way of "turning off" in order to keep your family stable and mental health okay, please let me know.

Neil Fiore's "Unschedule"

I didn't say it is "ok". I said it is not a crime.

If the Taliban now represent the official .gov of Afghanistan it is not a crime for any company to provide supply and services.

Edit: I am not talking about US-American companies only.

> that - besides the name - was the more natural successor to Lotus 1-2-3

Quattro means four, so the name is perfect.

Both, thanks for the link.

Ada is better then Dada

Can't wait for the 16bit Pico with HAM graphics mode.