I understand your point, but I don't see how going to the park with your mom and checking out salamanders (as the kids were doing in that photo in the article) is a faster route to a head full of useful knowledge, wisdom and experience.
I'm not sure why you assume anything about my father being strict. Perhaps you just read a book about conservative/liberal politics, and are keen to apply your new buzzwords?
Anyway, I beg you to show me one kid who would by his/her own accord sit down and learn to read, write, do math, and so on. Most kids would rather play games and colour books all day, which is what "unschooling" is all about.
Sounds like a another way to continue the trend of child-proofing the world, so that "everyone can learn at their own pace." Right. What these people are unable, or unwilling, to recognize is that the world meets nobody half-way. We either work hard at learning how to succeed and survive, or we fail hard.
"Unschooling" is just another way for lazy, stupid parents to coddle their children toward a lifetime of failure, mediocrity and narcissism. In 20 years, when these kids turn out to be useless tools who are unable to work for what they want or even support themselves, they will turn around and blame the government and you and me, for not doing enough to help them. (And no doubt they will do the complaining in a petulant, entitled tone that makes you want to punch them hard in the mouth.) Is this what we, as a society, want?
Yes, let's have more unschooling! Looks like a winning strategy to me.
I'm not sure how your reply is in any way related to what I said. Does SourceForge have a "Menu -> Add/Remove Software" option that I'm not aware of?
Riiiight... how many new Linux users do you think would like to go messing around in SourceForge, getting lost in all the operating systems, CPU architectures and package versions, just to try out the open source version of Bejewelled?
"App store" has come to mean something where people can browse a list of apps, click "install" on the apps they like, and immediately start using the app. I'm sure it's not hard to see why SourceForge does not fit that description.
Are you out of your mind?
The overhead in Inkscape will surely be greater than the 2MB required for Cairo (which for some reason the OP finds unacceptable). Furthermore, Inkscape, like other similar applications, probably stores its graphics in an internal data structure. The SVG reading and writing are only a front-end for constructing and translating the internal data structure. The code that draws the image will be using the internal data structure, not actual SVG data. All of these things coupled together will almost certainly result in a multi-megabyte overhead.
Furthermore, in addition to the multi-megabyte overhead, but there will be the [probably not insignificant] time and effort required to learn the Inkscape architecture. Then he will need to find and extract the relevant parts of code, so that they can be linked to his C++ program.
In short, I'm afraid that "leveraging" Inkscape is not a very feasible idea at all.
Because the shorter the message, the less intelligent thought has to go into it, I guess.
I beg to differ.
Given a topic to write about, what's easier:
Now which takes more intelligence?
Looks like another good reason to visit Silicon Valley, if only 4G devices were readily available to the general public.
Given infinite time and resources, [t]here isn't any program that can't be done well in C++
Fixed that for you.
Not true. The assertion that you will somehow need infinite resources and time to develop programs, just because you're using C++, is completely false, not to mention ignorant.
With a solid knowledge of C++ and STL, Boost and a handful of other what I'd call core libraries, you can accomplish most tasks very quickly. Similarly if you are experienced in Perl, you can accomplish tasks quickly with few lines of code. On the other hand, if you are a beginner in Perl or C++, you can easily waste days or weeks solving simple problems in messy, convoluted ways.
This knee-jerk response that C++ absorbs "infinite time and resources", for no reason other than the fact that it's C++, is not constructive at all, and just serves to exhibit your own tunnel vision when it comes to Perl (or whatever your tool of choice happens to be).
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
