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Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by kaeruct »

deregulateMed wrote: post #104
wrboyce wrote: post #100

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I see your name every time Apple are mentioned, did they hurt you or something? If you don’t want to buy their gear that is fine but this crusade you’re on is boring.

Yep. I'm against unethical behavior. Seems like HN generally agrees. I'm also against medical cartels too. I don't like Samsung or Nintendo for the same reasons I don't like Apple. Any specific questions?

What is unethical about Nintendo that you mention it among Apple and Samsung? Honest question here.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by cxr »

zepto wrote: post #89
Robotbeat wrote: post #80

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Superior in what way? It’s far easier to write a minimal program on a TI calculator like the TI89. No App Store account or Internet required. It’s included in every calculator for free, with function integration into the hard (ie easier to be precise while typing) keyboard.

> Superior in what way? When it comes to programming, almost every way. Try getting a job if you only know how to program a TI-84. Now compare that with knowing python or JavaScript. > It’s far easier to write a minimal program on a TI calculator like the TI89. Yes, and far harder to write anything but a minimal program . Completely impossible to write anything in a commercially used language. > No App Store account…

> Completely impossible to write anything in a commercially used language.

You're approaching this as if the comment was an opinion about the feasibility of doing commercial software development instead of what it was, which is a statement about HCI and the "implicit step zero" of software creation on today's commodity computing devices. Another way to put it is that this is a discussion about friction, and the original comment was specifically an observation about static friction, and you're talking about kinetic friction—while also insisting that the original comment is wrong because you want the subject to be the latter and not the former. It's a weird, overly hostile, and uncharitable way to interpret the other person's words.

The original comment as it stands is fine. Don't expect to be able to interpret it on different terms than the way it was meant to be understood.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by Leparamour »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #113
zepto wrote: post #74

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You say ‘sadly’, but that is vastly better than the equipment I had when I learned these skills in 80’s and 90s.

Taking your comment in the best possible light, I see this as a general indicator that for would-be-developers, things are often so much better than they were, despite the fact that many OSes are locked down. Services like Azure and GitHub make it easy to get started, and combined with great documentation like MDN and Q&A on StackOverflow, so much more information and opportunity is available. I remember struggling t…

As someone who is just learning coding in Python again, the amount of available learning material and projects create the luxury problem of overabundance. It's like drinking from a fire-hose as it's nearly impossible to discern the myriad of low-quality from high-quality content or even what's even relevant in order to get a general programming education.

Too many companies trying to lock you into eco-systems, new frameworks springing up and becoming obsolete too fast. Do I need github or is gitlab better? Flask? Flutter? Django? Blockchain? Machine learning? To a beginner this is all a swirling mess and leads to being overwhelmed and paralyzed.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by kyawzazaw »

scoopertrooper wrote: post #97
hemanta212 wrote: post #42

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Thank you for such kind and generous gesture. Sadly, with how things are with the courier and customs dep. here they can charge 30-40% of orignal price to receive electronic items Fortunately, I have managed to get few python freelance gigs here and there and in a few months, I may be able to afford one.

I'm weird, your comment got me interested in Nepalese custom duties. I had a read through and it looks like notebooks do not incur import duties in Nepal! > Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data on to data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included. -Portable automatic data processing machin…

If the officer feels like doing that, they will. That's sadly the case in many countries.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by kyawzazaw »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #84
atatatat wrote: post #72

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Could go the opposite way and welcome everyone and everything in, and have situations like your ports being bought by China, as is happening in African nations.

AFAIK, China has invested considerably in controlling African port infrastructure and operations, not trade policy in the abstract. While owning a port often implies direct control over what goes through it, the converse is not true: a government can still control its own port infrastructure while being completely laissez-faire about what goes through it.

They do in a proxy way control the policy. Often times, it is not just port infrastructure. Also manufacturing, agriculture and mining.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by z0ltan »

jiggawatts wrote: post #69
abdusco wrote: post #63

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He probably means programming or debugging while dreaming, which certainly happens when you're up 4am in the morning fixing a stubborn bug or learning something new that captivates your brain.

I meant it literally. I've had dreams where instead of a normal language, I dreamt in C++, as if it was a human language. Instead of spoken words, a header file was changing in my mind, taking shape to match my thoughts. It's the most "alien" experience I've ever had.

Hahahahaha!

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by allenu »

andi999 wrote: post #17
ansible wrote: post #6

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While I don't mean to slight the front-end dev's dedication, there are more than a few of us who learned BASIC programming in the late 1970's and early 1980's... without access to any computing device at all. We would study BASIC from manuals and other books, and pour over program listings in magazines. Then we would write out programs on paper, and "interpret" them in our heads to see if they worked correctly. Some…

I have difficulties understanding this. I learned Basic ard 84 on a c64. I don't understand why anybody would learn it without access to any device. I mean what would even get one interested in it/how would one know this exists?

I learned BASIC via books myself. I learned about it through the Commodore PET at school and some Apple IIes later on. I didn't have a computer at home, but I'd often write simple little text "games" in BASIC (things where you just enter your name and it asks you questions). I didn't have access to the computers at home all the time, so my situation was not one where I knew I'd get a chance to try it on a computer.

We eventually got a PC at home later on, but I already loved working out programming logic. With the PC, I also remember one time writing up some assembly in the library at school with pen and paper and eventually typing it in when I got home.

Re: Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone

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Post by Tepix »

Leparamour wrote: post #111
echoradio wrote: post #81

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Out of curiosity, is something like a Raspberry Pi Zero an option in terms of availability and having the equipment lying around to make it work (i.e. SD card, usb plug, etc.)? You should consider reaching out to the Raspberry Pi Foundation and explaining the situation. It is a registered charity and may have a program for distributing kits (and covering the associated costs) to areas or individuals who do not have e…

It's probably a step-up from just using a phone or phablet but with a Raspi you'd still need (compatible) monitors. No idea what the availability and markup is for these though reliable electricity might be another issue for remote regions.

Pretty much any flat screen tv with HDMI will do.
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