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Comment Racket: Bootstrap (Score 1) 237

The project you are looking for is Bootstrap.

Bootstrap is a standards-based curriculum for middle and high-school students, which teaches them to program their own videogames using purely algebraic and geometric concepts.

Bootstrap uses Scheme/Racket and focuses on the algebraic/functional aspects of programming. The teaching materials are freely available online. They even sell "I program my own videogames" T-shirts.

Comment CRAP (Score 1) 353

They just auto-renewed me last month. I was looking into other options, but since my website has ~0 traffic, I didn't worry about it too much. Now I have more reason to be sad that I didn't switch.

Comment Re:Response from my senator (Score 2) 449

which would cut off foreign websites dedicated to counterfeiting and piracy that steal American jobs, hurt the economy, and harm customers. It would allow the Justice Department to file a civil action against those who have registered or own a domain name linked to an infringing website.

So...our plan is to cut America off from those nasty pirates, so that good ol' Americans will be forced to pay full price for content they might otherwise pirate? Does this supposed $135 billion lost annual revenue come entirely from the US? There are so many things wrong with this guy's logic...

Comment Re:Evil enough yet? (Score 1) 434

I agree with everything you just said...except "they steal from the open source community". I say it all the time regarding "pirate" conversations, and I'll say it here: intellectual property isn't real property, and it cannot be "stolen". Now, does Apple copy from FreeBSD without giving back? Yes, certainly. But not "steal".

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 434

Using apps during a solar eclipse, using apps during a lunar eclipse, using apps while using apps, using apps while listening to music, using apps while closing one's eyes, using apps while the phone is laying flat on a desk, using apps while the phone is laying slanted on a pillow...the patent possibilities are endless!

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