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What is also important is the number of kids you are trying to teach at a time. Kids > 8 then blocks mean that everybody is somewhat productive through trial and error, even if some are held back by the interface. Try 30 young kids with a standard text based language and you end up achieving very little in a single class.

Have a look at the PDFs. I guess it is designed to help you rethink the situations in which the software you write will be used, how it will be used and by whom.

Just wondering what the ethical difference is between making false papers allowing anonymous travel and making encryption allowing anonymous communication?

Reminds me of the debate over the liveness of a strawberry on the BBC podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w/episodes/downloads

She seems pretty clear about it

"I care about computer science. When I was in school in the 1980s, women got about 37 percent of computer science degrees and law degrees then. Law went up to 47 percent now. In medicine, we were at 28 percent in 1984. That’s gone up to 48 percent. Computer science went from 37 percent to 18 percent. I started to learn about it and say, my gosh. To me, the tech industry is one of the best places to work right now."

In fairness the fact that it is from The Paris Review should be a clue that it was not 'just anyone'

Can I recommend SonicPi. Many of the kids in my local Coderdojo pick this up after Scratch

Is there then a question about how high a priority this robbery will be for the police since no life is in danger? Perhaps trucking companies will have to hire security guards instead of drivers...

I would guess that if income inequality is high and mobility is impossible people may consider other options. If there is no chance that they can earn a better way of life they may band together and take it. It's not like these things haven't happened before.

Don't forget that if nobody gets paid then they can't consume all the wonderful output the robots produce.

Us Irish also have some ability.

I think the same is also true for Ireland. The last friendly match was used to view mainly fringe players. I guess 7/8 of the likely starters are here as substitutes. Perhaps you should look at the last competitive game in the qualifiers.

Have a look at Kano on the raspberry-Pi even if you don't buy the kit you can download the image. It is a really well put together package which I can't recommend highly enough. http://blog.kano.me

Makes me think of this, Facebook vs reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1BMCpPCzM

Off topic but Sam Aaron an overtone contributor and the creator of Sonic Pi is currently looking for advice re the funding of his work on Sonic Pi

https://twitter.com/samaaron

Whats even better is that the show was made in the '70s

Connections holds up really well and Burke's presentation is great.

Also check out heliosphan recreation in Sonic Pi YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/embed/bgPpyfRk3rw

Limerick, Ireland's 3rd largest city is much closer than Cork. It is about 20 minutes from the airport.

I assumed it referred to the Shannon free zone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Free_Zone

I was just thinking of the Bowie vinyl that I had and remembered what the experience of buying it was like. Having 'cool' albums was a thing, it said something about you. Now that I have teenagers myself I don't see that with them. Music is not something they own, it's free (if you don't mind the ads) and anyone can have anything they like. No effort is required and maybe because of that They don't seem to appreciate it the same way.

I wouldn't claim that any idea I had was original but for sure I see a similarity between the way people seem to curate their social media profile so that they appear in a certain light to others to the way my peers and I used to curate our record collections to portray something about ourselves as kids

There are many stories on HN that I don't care about. In those cases I usually find it best to say nothing...

I bought my first Bowie album probably 35 years ago, I still carry Bowie music around on my phone. Back then buying music seemed like such an important thing. It was both a choice, you could only afford one record out of many, and a statement, your record collection said something about you to your peers. I guess social media takes it's place in that you use it to express who you are and what you like. Back then you listened to every album you bought hundreds of times and really made a connection with the ones you liked. One of my Bowie LP's developed a skip and I still expect to hear it jump when I hear the track now on the radio or spotify.

Is there any danger that such levels of inequality reach a tipping point where the have nots band together and say why don't we take some of that for us. We have the numbers to either change the law or take by force. Such things are not unknown in history...

Maybe ask the people of Greece if they "trust the banks". Shit happens, a local copy of your stuff does no harm at all in the same way as some cash on the hip is cool in case your card stops working.

Just a question, how many people actually benefit from a Google being in their particular country?

I have used assp for a few years, it's tricky to setup but does a great job once you get there. http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/

Just one bit of evidence to the contrary. I have filled the 70 litre tank in a 1.6tdi VW Passat and driven 1400 km with 5 occupants and luggage. This was mainly European motorway driving.

This makes me think of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. I don't know if its your kind of think but there is a link here somewhere http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?9963-PDF-book...

Also add earsketch to the list of others http://earsketch.gatech.edu/landing/

For some details and background, Emigration Across the Atlantic: Irish, Italians and Swedes compared, 1800–1950 http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/europe-on-the-road/economic-mig...