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Ah, that makes sense. I originally read it differently. > Mary is 24 years old. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. How old is Ann? Which I read as: …

The OpenXTalk community is keeping the open source version alive. https://www.openxtalk.org/

Looks like a less feature-full version of livecode [0], which I'd argue is more of a HyperCard successor", since they were formerly revolution & MetaCard, and can import HyperCard …

Also for macOS, there's paneru: https://github.com/karinushka/paneru

I found a path from Piano to Volcano with 40 generated topics! Piano → Instrument (broader) Instrument → Juilliard School (places) Juilliard School → American conservatories (past)…

I've been looking forward to watching these, since last year's. Some really interesting projects this year. The feeling of computing[0] (formerly future of coding) community is als…

Interesting, if unsurprising, to see that a large factor in the interest in YouTube was based purely on location, as well as knowledge of the people working there, their background…

It is hard, but only if you try to find the general solution. If instead you think in the way the problem designer (who had a target audience of 3rd graders in mind) intended the s…

It depends what you mean by "very limited". All the code is provided to you, so you can get through the book by simply copying and pasting the provided code snippets. As long as yo…

Yes. I'm halfway through it now, and while I do have a degree in CS, all that's really needed is knowledge of Java and C. If anything, it's less formal than a compiler / PL course …

I don't know about the best way, but one way to protect against inflation, without concerning yourself with outpacing it, is to purchase TIPS. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/…

For more, I recommend reading "Concurency: The works of Leslie Lamport". https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3335772#issue-downloads All of the chapters are freely available (scrol…

No more descriptive, but IMO more memorable.

> Most research (plus the 2016 results) confirms that money has little effect on victory Maybe money in the form of "contributions", okay. But having money is still the largest pre…

> Why should our taxes be handed out for risky business endeavors with no direct public benefit, when the private sector already has the means to handle this. SBIR/STTR money is pr…

> Government agency usually gets perpetual use license of your product. Misleading. The agency, in this case NSF, obtains march in rights for patents (not data) developed using fun…