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"Skim": To read quickly or cursorily, to glance over, or to omit details in order to get the gist of something.The UK government ? Not so much. If the case has enough clout and import, the UK government has enough “multilateral conventions and bilateral extradition treaties” to make your life really miserable.
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With that being said, due to the high nature of abstraction when treating CS concepts, you'd be hard-pressed to find vocabulary built into an African language or dialect that could support any meaningful conversation on a CS topic. A few governments looked into it, but it's almost impossible to implement anything in local languages. Transliterating or translating directly from English doesn't generally work. Same for the francophone countries, and the majority of sub-Saharan Africa(including the Portuguese-speaking islands I've been to). You can have conversations in those dialects but you'll need to mix them up with English, and therefore, CS is mainly taught in English.
However, in North Africa and the League of Arab states, I've witnessed CS courses that were taught in Arabic, but the instructor had to default to English words to explain programming concept. It's usually a hilarious mix-match of English and Arabic that could be defined as a language on its own.
The entire series is an amazing meld of epic fantasy and philosophy that delves deep into topics surrounding human nature and human existence. We had a similar discussion on reddit[0] a few months ago and i'll summarize it here. You'll find topics like violence and its relation to power,civilization as violence against nature, phenomenology, existentialism versus essentialism. Arguments for anarcho-primitivism, arguments against anarcho-primitivism. Mutualism versus individualism versus collectivism. Class struggle and class consciousness.
The entire series is a piece of art. It also happens have a myriad of badass characters appearing and disappearing throughout the novels, so there's always something to look forward to in the next book.
[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/d1vfs3/philosophy_...
To be honest, i still feel a bit wary about keeping my password in the cloud, but LastPass has been so amazingly convenient, it's well worth the risk. To be extra certain incase of an undisclosed breach, I 2FA everything that has a 2FA option. I know i'm very late to the ballpark, but i'd rather corporate organizations add Password Managers to their policies instead of forcing everyone to change ever so often and worsening the situation.
Graham Hutton’s programming in Haskell is a really great book and will get you up and moving in no time.
If you’re new to programming, id suggest Haskell Programming from first principles by Chris Allen And Julie Moronuki. It’s a very large book(1000+ Pages) but teaches you functional programming concepts from scratch in Haskell without assuming any previous exposure to the language
However this doesn’t really work when you’re switching to a different paradigm. When I switched to Haskell, I realized that even the way you think about things must change and diving into a project just isn’t the way to do this. You’ll keep stumbling the entire time if you bring your imperative mindset with you and attempt to leverage off them to get a quick start.
If you don’t have some functional programming experience under your belt, first spend some time familiarizing yourself with the language history and try to figure out why some design choices were made. Try and soak up as much theory as you can by getting the best books on the language. This is much slower but you have to bear in mind that sometimes you have to unlearn several things that may be considered a bad practice in the previous languages you’re familiar with.
I try to treat learning a new programming language like learning a new human language. I know quite a few and it’s always easy to fool yourself into thinking that once you know the syntax and grammar for a similar language you can port them over to the new language. You’ll be surprised to know some languages don’t have some words at all based on their culture and have no way to express something that is easy to grasp in English.
So long and short, history and some theory about the language first, then dive into a small project, pick up another book along the way and then more theory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15398550
My personal favorite?
The CIA cannot guarantee that files they have spent 6 years poring through are free off malware? Wonder why anyone will download these documents after this.