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eney

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    Comment #2227903

    Nonsense! The Free Software movement is a political movement informed by philosophical and ethical values.

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    Comment #1844490

    Maybe one's preference depends on whether one uses speech or braille. Although I known of some blind programmers who won't learn Python because of the indentation, some like it. So…

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    Comment #1843408

    Ah yes! A foldable display with nanotech that could make tactile maps and such with different textures. That's what I want.

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    Comment #1843271

    I've used Graphviz to make relationship diagrams to aid my communication with sighted people. There's an interesting Google Developer Podcast with T.V. Raman where he mentions prog…

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    Comment #1842908

    Most blind people use speech output. If braille displays were more affordable perhaps more people would use them. But with the cost of 80-cel displays being roughly double 40-cell …

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    Comment #1842823

    I'd love to have a 80x25 braille display. I believe they've been made in the labs. The blocker is the expense.

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    Comment #1842785

    I don't know APL and I'm not currently smart enough for Haskell. My current infatuation for learning is with Scala. When I first started programming in the mid-80's, I was hacking …

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    Comment #1842625

    I'm a blind programmer. I use a 80-character braille display which shows one line of text at a time. My preferred language is Python although some blind programmers dislike it for …