The author's interest in middle-grade books is fascinating. I'd love to read a post of recommendations with accompanying rationale, if only to get ideas for books my daughter might like!
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> My first response when the plan to add generics was announced was “meh”. In my 5+ years working in Go, I can probably count on one hand the number of times that I felt like I really needed generics. Most of the code I write in my day job is very specific to the domain and doesn’t fit the use case that generics aim to fill.
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> I love that I was able to delete 95% of my code because of generics.
I'm going to push on your deflection to legal obstacles to sharing footage though. Get parent permission and make a better example video! :)
- I'm honestly baffled by spending so much time on one book (program?) in a classroom context. I imagine some kids won't be interested in the particular story, but it will go on for an entire month. I could see this damaging interest.
- The pace seems incredibly slow. To learn to read, you need to read a lot. But this is one book per month?
- The more stories a child is exposed to, the more chances there are to encounter something especially captivating for that child, and to spark an interest.
- It's hard to believe how much participation there will be without seeing an example class and interactions between the students & actor. The videos on the site make it seem like a completely passive experience.
- Craft activities seem like a distraction from reading unless the activities are grounded in literacy (e.g. letter/word games or creations). Even then I'm kind of skeptical.
- I predict you'll end up changing the name "litnerd". Being a nerd is cool on HN, but elsewhere?
All that said, I'm a fan of your mission and understand that learning to read in a classroom is going to look a lot different than learning 1:1. But I wonder if you could leave the group instruction to teachers and go direct to kids with a more Duolingo ABC-like experience, but include live instructors/actors. It'd be sort of like reading with a remote parent. Instructors could act out the story as you're doing with litnerd, but also unstick kids with reading help and mini-lessons. Basically, build a literacy-specific Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from A Diamond Age with gig economy ractors.
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This can't be real. Why would Disney use/ruin the Firefly universe for this show idea when they already have the Star Wars universe?
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Restricting the number of different technologies in your toolbox gets you most of the benefits described in TFA. But contrary to "boring", it's actually preferable for some of those tools to be bleeding edge. That way you also get to enjoy the benefits of the Python Paradox.
Of course, you need to have good enough taste to pick new techs, and sometimes the bleeding edge will cut you. But because you amortize that cut over the whole org it doesn't hurt much.
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Thanks for your help, Peter.
Here are the apps I've whitelisted on my 3 year old's iPad. I don't like having video on there because I found passive video consumption dominates all other activities. I've found with a hand-picked set of apps, she naturally self-limits her screen time.
- Metamorphabet. An alphabet toy with high production values. https://metamorphabet.com/
- Endless Alphabet. Discussed elsewhere in this thread. https://www.originatorkids.com/?p=564
- Flow Free. A simple puzzle game kids seem to love. Lots of levels. Make sure to remove the ads. https://www.bigduckgames.com/flowfree
- Divide by Sheep. Actually a pretty difficult game, but for some reason she loves it. https://www.tinybuild.com/dividebysheep.
- Busy Shapes. Simple put the shape in the hole game. Recently has been crashing, though. https://montessori.edokiacademy.com/en/our-games/discovery/b...
- Crazy Gears. A puzzle game that builds intuition about mechanics. See also Busy Water by the same developer. https://montessori.edokiacademy.com/en/our-games/discovery/c...
- Khan Academy Kids. A pretty large library of educational content that nevertheless is engaging enough to compete with the other apps she has access to. Does have a few videos though. https://www.khanacademy.org/kids
But we were thinking perhaps we should spend some effort making it easier for others to use <Table /> elsewhere. How close to usable is it for your use case?
As for docs, we do generate what we can (as explained by my sibling comment). But some pages (e.g. guidelines) are indeed hand-crafted.
Thanks, Atom team!
Really? Apple has impactful OSS like LLVM, WebKit, Swift.
But I wonder if a more enlightened society that doesn't have those additional goals could make this work. Perhaps some of the obvious problems can be addressed, or at least ameliorated:
- Shifts could be sharded across families rather than individuals. Individuals seems needlessly granular and disruptive.
- The number of shards could be reduced. With 5 shards, 4/5 potential friends don't share your weekend. But maybe we could have only 2 or 3 shards.
- A single day (e.g. Sunday) could remain a society-wide day of rest.
I think a proposal that included some of the above characteristics along with a shortening of the standard work week (to 35 or 32 hours, perhaps) might be interesting.
I suppose we already have a bottom-up version of this with shift work, but probably there is some small benefit to aligning shifts in a top-down way (i.e. it reduces shards which should increase happiness).