It's valuable data. It's probably good for many things, from catching criminals, to selling to you personally, even to selling that data to other stores.
I like to think a good programming book will teach you theory along with showing you what an implementation in a language is going to look like.
While you still find it's hard to decide which language is superior to learn, maybe do some comparisons? You could look at some samples of different languages very easily, e.g. get on github and browse around! Then perhaps you gravitate naturally towards how one looks?
It could be nice, just starting out and all, to enjoy the natural elegance of languages: consider solving some project euler problems...then you can look at solutions in all sorts of languages! What fun.
The Go Programming Language is a recent concise book that will give you a basic grounding in important CS stuff through the lens of a modern language. I'd say that will clarify loads of jargon.
Aptitude. Some people can (and want) to sing. Esoteric talents abound. Use your aptitudes to help you make something people want. If you're good at, say for example singing, that is the natural talent you can bring to a making project. Make something you can make really well. Otherwise you might end up bored as hell.
this was fun. i popped in on a nice fellow that listened in to my miles davis and tea slurping. i wish I had a problem to talk out! I'll have to come back....
He was also hoping I think to debarb his relentless search to know philosophy. Everywhere he looked it seemed despair, even finding out his famousness in Vienna, did not help him. He was utterly lost, and so looking to children, found some light in their innocence. I've read quite a bit on Wittgenstein, and he seems to always be wandering, as if there is no one thing to explain anything at all. What is energy? Well it exists within the usage, as in, how would you teach a child to use the word?
if you get a chance to go somewhere where there is a variety, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn the variety of smells is valuable information. Some, smell bad to you, others, may smell okay or even fantastic. seriously, compare its smells and flavors to that of coffee.
Politics is about ethics? Yes, well, do you think an eight year old can look words up in the dictionary? Yes, of course you do. Well I argue that's all it takes, essentially, beyond that an eight year old needs some time, to answer some questions of their own, to be lectured at about the implications. But, an 8yo is perfectly capable of making the right choice, given context/access to information.
And, I'll additionally argue that technical merits can convince someone opposed on humanitarian grounds, the two are not incomparable, we do these sorts of comparisons just fine in the real world.
You are attempting to modularise the argument in a way I find unpalatable is all, our differences are likely surface deep.
Do you see anything redeeming about the quote? It seems problematic if something like this can be so political but be impervious to the logical debate an 8yo can engage in, no?
>>Questioning that need is questioning one of the founding tenants of modern human society...
There's private space to live in his van, there's no problem there, yes he too wants a private space to live in like the rest of us. The difference is the van does not provide a box around him unlike the 2-3k box.
I think things like this are great, as social experiments these are important, esp. b/c we are exploring how to reclaim spaces, making it less of a crime to inhabit spaces.
sure when appropriate randomize it in clever ways, but don't make it random unless it really should be random, cleverly placed secrets are part of why many players like these games, internet spoilers or not. See Myst.