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The Unix Pipe Card Game

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Re: The Unix Pipe Card Game

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Post by Suppafly »

ktallett wrote: post #36
elchief wrote: post #4

$19 shipping (Canada) is a little outrageous anybody in Greater Vancouver wanna do a bulk order w me?

12 Euros is a fairly standard price for tracked postage across continents.

Not the same, but I mailed a sweatshirt to a relative in Sweden from the US and it was like $36 and if I wanted it tracked the whole way it would have been something like $55. Granted this was USPS and maybe shopping it around would have been cheaper, but I had no idea that international shipping was so expensive considering you can buy stuff from china and shipping is basically free.

Re: The Unix Pipe Card Game

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throwaway71271 wrote: post #8
g4zj wrote: post #6

Are kids these days actually able to grasp things like this? I don't have kids and am never around them, so please take this question as genuine and in good faith.

I think it depends a lot on the kid and the parent, I am teaching my daughter since she was 10, and I try to spend time every day doing something, you can see our progress here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... It is difficult because I have to compete with snapchat and google/meta for her attention, and school is quite exhausting. Snapchat has this super annoying 'streaks' and the more…

> Snapchat has this super annoying 'streaks' and the more friends you have the more streaks you have to keep alive, so you have to send like 400 messages per day.. its non stop.

I had no idea. That sounds insane. Can that "feature" be disabled?

> I teach her that there are 100_000 developers and psychologists and product owners and etc, that they go to work every single day thinking how to extract the most value out of her attention, and she has to constantly be aware of what is the "algorithm" making her do.

It's great that you make her aware of it. And still, it sounds like an horribly unfair fight.

Re: The Unix Pipe Card Game

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Post by throwaway71271 »

dbdr wrote: post #43
throwaway71271 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it depends a lot on the kid and the parent, I am teaching my daughter since she was 10, and I try to spend time every day doing something, you can see our progress here: https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... It is difficult because I have to compete with snapchat and google/meta for her attention, and school is quite exhausting. Snapchat has this super annoying 'streaks' and the more…

> Snapchat has this super annoying 'streaks' and the more friends you have the more streaks you have to keep alive, so you have to send like 400 messages per day.. its non stop. I had no idea. That sounds insane. Can that "feature" be disabled? > I teach her that there are 100_000 developers and psychologists and product owners and etc, that they go to work every single day thinking how to extract the most value out…

> Can that "feature" be disabled?

not that I know of, but also she has social pressure to not let her friends "down", its a huge thing who you have "streak" with, and also the longer the streak is the more "important" it is.

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