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Similar story here. I got RIS 2.0 after it had been out for awhile, but my parents couldn't justify the cost. Finally, Toys R Us had a beat up box sitting on the shelf and marked i…

Thank-you!

Wish I could offer more than best wishes, but I am in a similar boat: pondering some product ideas while working as a SWE. This line caught my attention - "I also love learning abo…

There is such shortage of skilled contractors. It's unreal, so I've considered getting in via being an electrician. The starting salaries always stop me though. How can I reset the…

How did you come to have the skills to design and build whatever it is you manufacture? I'm guessing you have a mix of mechanical and electrical background. I always have ideas for…

A couple years ago I became quite interested in building my own grow lights for starting garden veggie seedlings. The YouTube recommendations surrounding such videos were quite int…

JsonParser() is Scala syntax. Not sure how you'd accomplish that in Java and as for parse Java's generics are erased at compile time.

Grondbreaking? Unless this extends to more components, Kia has had this since at least 2009.

Agreed, I'll have to check but I'm fairly confident my 2009 Kia Soul had 10 years and 100,000 miles

The impetus to leave these big tech platforms has gone up at least 40% for me. If I want filtered information, the big news players provide that 24/7.

This is off-topic, but your comment on your user base caught my attention. Do you think Android app development can be monetarily worth the time investment for individual developer…

MIT and Harvard being rather dishonest here. Seems like this is reverting back to what was before? "Due to COVID-19, SEVP instituted a temporary exemption regarding online courses …

The assymetric geometry brings back memories. Trying to tie a stack of bricks together with a "girder" vertical across connected with the pegs! I guess there's upsides and down. I …

Does anyone else find the studless beams and associated pieces much more difficult to build with than the old (very old as in Robotics Invention System) beams and pieces with studs…

Recently came back to a React GUI at work. Doing the Docker build is almost comical as the npm red text rolls by :). You would think the thing is surely going to explode. Of course…

As I've been learning Scala, traits is the feature that grabbed me and is what convinces me to keep learning. What a brilliant feature that cuts through all the OOP clutter that ca…

Where in Ohio is this? I'm not doubting, just like to read local news on it as I'm in Ohio too. I applaud DeWine for acting quickly, but I'm concerned that maybe for rural and smal…

Hope not too off topic, does anyone have books on building simple electric-powered machines? I often have ideas for little machines for my garden or cooking but have no idea how to…

Terrific! Data pipelines I've built have had JSON as their intermediary steps which I'm growing weary of.

The key point I presume is the definition of "market" here; and I'm not convinced the market "software that runs on iOS" is so large that monopwhatever can be declared there and us…

Thanks for the holiday chuckle :)

Us Americans have an impractical revulsion to lobbying and industry groups. Most Americans simply do not have the time and, at least until recently, are not too concerned what some…

In the states, the authors model is absolutely true. Pick up a high school algebra text and it's a more colorful with some meager attempts at explanation version of a Springer book…

Sigh, I know new language features are cool, but I highly doubt the growing dominance of Python and JS is a question primarily of language features. Python has a REPL and the outst…

That is interesting. I wonder how other national programs are generally funded (or would be funded, Medicare For All for example). Are they massive wealth transfers from low tax to…