Yeah, and it's also *tomorrow* :))

Mmmm... couple of things here: 1) learn how to spell; it will do wonders for your credibility, especially if you live by text, and 2) learn not to finance things unless you have an ethical imperative for financing companies to profit at your expense. Yes, I know everyone does it, but everyone are stoopid.

Scratch is awesome, and I've worked with many dozens of kids on it.

The huge conundrum has always been where to go "after Scratch". Python isn't it, because you can't easily share graphical games unless the recipient also has pyGame installed. Javascript hasn't been it for a lack of appropriate on-ramp.

But there's now a free online tutorial system aimed at "Scratch kids" who want to take the next step. http://s2js.com/ It tutors them through the bits of Javascript they need to know in order to write graphical games that'll run on their smartdevices. It's tutorial, simple development tool, private image storage, and deployment facility.

It's "Javascript as told to Scratchers".

Doesn't matter much which one, just learn to so some even trivial things in assembler. Then understand *this* is reality, and everything else is an abstraction.

For bonus points, then do it in hex without the benefit of an assembler to translate mnemonics into opcodes and calculate your relative addresses.

Passed what? A kidney stone? Another car?

Oh, you mean "died". I get it now.

And at 4:20 as it lands, the cows run back again. Very suspicious.

You're living on a plant ??

My god, this place is bugged !!

Hey! Illegible, ill-informed and incorrect. Nice trifecta

I like the bit where it says ""It looks like you're writing a letter..."

I think the correct tense form is *mayoral* failure.

Oh, unless you actually meant something else and just fucked up coz you were too distracted bootstrapping your own space launch business.

I think you're right: jealously. Musk has runs on the board - multiple runs in multiple arenas. He should be every geek's action hero, but instead people are calling him a con-man, a fake, a wannabe. It's absurd in light of the observable facts, and the only explanation that fits is that a collection of true wannabe's are sitting at home chucking sour grapes.

Knuth for how things work, Mythical man month for how things don't work. Everything else is left as an exercise for the reader.

Yes, it's Scratch-like in construction -- but it excludes concepts like loops and branching. This tutorial is really not much more than configuring a couple of parameters in a pre-built flappy-bird game.

I'm a big fan of Scratch, of code.org, and of teaching kids how to code. But sad to say this offering misses the point entirely.

Temperature doesn't have the absurd issue of units that the other measurements have. If Faremheit included features like "12 degrees to a larksvomit, 3 larksvomits to a thrumblehorn", so a 75 degree day would actually be expressed as "3 thromblehorns and a larksvomit", then it would have the same issue.

The problem isn't the magnitude of these things, the problem is the absurd units and multiples involved.

So why use a decimal system for currency? Indeed, until the year 2001 US stock market operated in fractions: two and a half dollars, twelve and 17/32, etc. By your reasoning, fractions are such a wonderful notion that they should never have changed.