If all the other kids were eating poison, would you want yours to eat it too?
Do you really want a corporation, whose express purpose is to turn your child into a shopaholic by the age of 10, to raise your kid?
Do you really want your child to have no connection to themselves through "influencer" level indoctrination?
Is infinte scroll really worth investing the best years of your child's life in?
I gave my daughter a Nokia flip phone, she soon became part of the family again.
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As if Larry Summers doesn't know how they do it.
Is he trolling?
Why doesn't he just write the article "This is how corporations pay no tax"?
Maybe it has something to do with un-elected officials, who generally represent the not-public, being Treasury Secretary.
ios phones, android phones, windows phones, mobile phones are ageist. No ifs or buts. I was happy to read this, it needs more attention. mobile phones have forgotten that they are phones. I find that 'contacts' apps, which you'd think would be the heart of the whole thing, quite unintuitive.
User interfaces in general have a long way to go, imho!
Clojure is a modernised version of Lisp. It compiles to Java bytecode and runs on the JVM. Clojurescript compiles to Javascript for use in the browser. Some amazing programming tools have been written for Clojurescript. The community is very robust and opinionated, in a good way I think.
Clojure is very modern with its vectors and maps. Lisp is more of an antique, a very valuable antique though. its very interesting to learn about both at the same time, as I did :)
Starting Forth by Leo Brodie is a classic book. Forth is a very elegant language. I came across a javascript implementation of it recently, which you can look up yourself :)
When I saw this article in the HN list the first thing I thought of was Hypercard. I started using it a uni to do text analysis for my sociology thesis. I went from knowing nothing to a visual word mapping stack in 2 weeks, my only programming experience prior to that was apple2 machine code and AppleBASIC nearly 10 years prior. With that experience I was employed by the university to renovate their Stacks. Now I do programming everyday, and am constantly nostalgic for the something like the Hypercard experience. I search all the time for language alternatives and as interesting as it is, no languages are as intuitive as HyperTalk. Just as I was telling myself Hypercard could be my career, Apple discontinued it! There were some companies that jumped to 'replicate' it but I suppose they didn't have the genius of the Apple engineers, they weren't the same.
Even today I have to build a web app and I'm agonising over having to do a HTML interface and hook up functions and the ajax in javascript and do all the sql for the database, its just so repetitive and boring and hard, not fun.
Anyway nice choice.
I gave my daughter a Nokia flip phone, she soon became part of the family again.
You don't have to buy into the idea that exposing innocent, defenseless people to rapacious corporations is a question of freedom. Its bullshit. Unsubscribe.