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Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by wodenokoto »

I love Unix pipes and I love the immense computational power you can achieve through streaming pipelines. You hear stories of people processing terabytes of data faster and cheaper than a distributed cloud solution, by the virtue of Unix pies[1].

But I don’t really see them in any other environment. I can’t think of anything that uses something similar except for big, distributed data processing pipelines like Apache Beam.

Where’s the Python with streaming pipelines?

[1] https://livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2019-06-04-using-awk...

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by throwaway47292 »

ajot wrote: post #19

Is there any way you could/would change the license from ND to something else allowing derivatives? I would love to see translations of these!

Sorry, I copied ND and NC by mistake, I just pushed https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/commit/8d14a... to move to CC-BY-4.0 (removing NC and NC)

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by [deleted] »

wodenokoto wrote: post #21

I love Unix pipes and I love the immense computational power you can achieve through streaming pipelines. You hear stories of people processing terabytes of data faster and cheaper than a distributed cloud solution, by the virtue of Unix pies[1]. But I don’t really see them in any other environment. I can’t think of anything that uses something similar except for big, distributed data processing pipelines like Apache…

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Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by Shared404 »

lupire wrote: post #9
blue1 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids. (When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)

Kids don't like comics fonts?

Not when they'ee out of place.

Any time I've worked with kids older than ~8, they'll gravitate away from comic or obviously "kid focused" fonts, and more towards "cool" fonts.

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by throwamon »

blue1 wrote: post #8
jdthedisciple wrote: post #3

Looks nice, though my guess is it would be more appealing to kids if it used more color, a bigger font size and a more "fun" font family like Comic Sans perhaps. Nice work though, would definitely consider this for my own kids.

Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids. (When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)

> When I was a kid, ... I hated fonts “for kids”

So you were a snob since you were a child. Got it.

Please stop gatekeeping subjective matters.

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by flobosg »

zasdffaa wrote: post #13
geraldwhen wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comic sans black on white is more readable than most copy produced in modern web products. Designers love grey on grey. I’ll take comic sans any day.

Font and font contrast are entirely orthogonal.

Are they? Font contrast is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only color but other properties as well. For instance, stroke weight and its modulation, which are inherent to a typeface.

Re: Show HN: The Unix Pipe Card Game – teach kids basic Unix commands

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Post by WhatIsDukkha »

EdSchouten wrote: post #28

I'm not saying that this isn't a great way for people to familiarize themselves with basic Unix shell commands. That said, why would you want to teach this to kids ?

Kids are people too?

But yeah this type of thing was always fun for me when I was a little guy.

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