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Fully offline live-USB (Ubuntu) w/ offline Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, OpenStreetMaps, and other public domain / creative common sources, all running on OSS. Just download and toss it on a USB, then use it as you want. I think it's great for those that have/may-have an intermittent internet connection, want to have an offline way to browse wikipedia, want to put it in a time capsule, are going camping but want educational material, etc.
It is cool because memory safety is really hard in low-level languages, and Rust helps you out a lot in that department.
I'm also working on a little product on the weekends. A CRM for tattoo shops. It's cool because it'll be a fully Free (AGPL 3'd) Rails app, and there aren't enough of those in the world.
Also a project-based course on entrepreneurship to teach in the fall.
Also a seminar on leadership for General Assembly in New York for later this month.
Why are those things cool?
Because when I started my first company I had plenty of skills with science, technology, and knowledge and facts. I didn't know how to build relationships, work with teams, motivate people, and other business and personal skills I've come to find more important for business and other relationships.
I find very few places teach this stuff effectively. For that matter, few people think it can be taught or learned. Meanwhile people without these skills get promoted to positions where they'd help. Instead the run their organizations into the ground, destroy morale, and things like that.
I'm going to change that.
#knowledgebomb Fully offline live-USB (Ubuntu) w/ offline Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, OpenStreetMaps, and other public domain / creative common sources, all running on OSS. Just download and toss it on a USB, then use it as you want. I think it's great for those that have/may-have an intermittent internet connection, want to have an offline way to browse wikipedia, want to put it in a time capsule, are going campin…
Why: Because old school meets new. Also, it is fairly useful for my job as a CICS mainframe programmer.
My reasons are:
- I wanted to learn Haskell.
- I wanted to learn more about web stack internals.
- I wanted a web stack that was entirely mine. I know how every single aspect of it works, from low level asynchronous network IO to HTML templating.
Of course, the amount of time I spent frustrated by bugs in my previous Apache/Django stack will certainly be less than 1% of the amount of time I've spent writing my own stack, I have no regrets. I've learned so much doing it.
It's cool because now that I've gotten several thousand lines of Haskell under my belt, I finally know what "a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" means.
It's cool because it is unreasonable that in this day and age the information that governs the world is controlled by governments and corporations.
it's cool because social media is ridden with lies, errors and propaganda, and it doesn't make sense that those keep spreading without being refuted.
It's cool because it lets you watch any news event develop in real-time from the point of view of the people on the ground.
We're leveraging Microsoft's new Roslyn compiler to break apart software into functions. The user then navigates their code on a function-by-function basis, similar to what was shown off in Code Bubbles a few years ago.
We've got a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQ8NJOypqs
We're planning to launch our beta for Visual Studio and C# this August.
Coolness: Helping people gain value from sharing resources.