I agree with you until last paragraph. As I said in another reply, I think that this law is based on economical protection of the two main political parties.
The lack of knowledge of foreign languages is clearly a issue. I think that our country is solving this making B1 mandatory to get you graduated and enforcing bilingual basic education on the capital. Not so much, but it seems to start giving some results.
We have to watch doubbed films when we're in groups because this problem. I know people that prefer original versions, but you can not exclude your friends when social watching.
Oh, I think I also went through something similar.
At 15, my parents denied me every kind of interaction with computers except for talking with my girlfriend.
I created a MSN Messenger fake with various recorded videos for different days that replayed some of our text conversations. That gave me a lot of time to code my backdoors and others silly projects at age.
At one point my father became suspicious because I spent more time on others windows that on chat one, but the fake was reasonably credible.
A few years ago my father and me shared some laughs when I told him about two things: The one that I have just told and that the worm that made us reinstall the OS was me collecting the beautiful icons in "system32" folder.
Feedback: It is a little bit frustrating being able to see only 10 per page. It makes me think about scrapping the site for the keywords that I am interested.
Good job. Some cool domains there, added to tools bookmark.
I don't know why, but I was expecting a place to get in touch to other programmers to do Pair Programming (i.e. for small katas or side projects). Does it exists?
If it doesn't, does anyone wants to have a bit of fun doing Pair Programming to create it together? :)
My girlfriend brother is Asperger too: Bad grades, excellent knowledges about grammar and strange words, obsessed with League of Legends (a videogame), reading and sometimes astrology.
I am sorry, watson, because I have no magic pills.
I understand your worry in making him able to live without depending on someone else resources. We are too trying to achieve the same that you, but we are doing it slowly because we are sure that if he knows what we are planning he will never perceive it as interesting.
At the moment, we have been able to make him somewhat interested about the technical part of computers doing him a demo of "security pentesting": We (I, with him at my side making jokes and enjoing the process and asking) did some arp and dns spoofing, also played with sslstrip and he loved to know about the mechanics.
Advancing from there it's not being easy. Web development seems a good path for us too because you can easily see the results. The problem is making him interested enough to do it by himself.
I'm adding this thread to bookmarks. Please, tell about any progress that you did and ask if you think that there is something we can share with you.
Maybe other people does not appreciate your work, but my girlfriend (who study marketing) and me have gained some insight about Twitter users and countries with Internet access [1].
Great work and thank you!
[1] I know this last is arguable: In some countries, Twitter is not the main microblogging service.
No problem, smoyer. I take it to first person because I thought that my personal experience could be a interesting answer.
Recommendations are great once you both have some favorites books in common. Because of that, I always check the Amazon's "Other people also bough" section.
"I guess that means that each e-book only has to be sold once in your country?"
No.
It means that you can read a book and, if you really like it, you can buy it. It means that you can discover new authors, topics and so without a huge investment.
This can sound demagogic: I have never had enough money to buy the books I wanted, nor to waste it trying to discover new books and topics. But with downloaded books I learned about tech and other fields. Eventually, I bough more books (a lot from U.S) than if I had not discovered these topics.
Allowing private sharing (as long as there are not profit) and supporting authors are not in direct confrontation. In my humble opinion and personal experience, they are correlated.
In my country there is no problem in sharing copyrighted content as long as do not receive economical profit. Also, I have found the example very practical as introduction.
I am unable to see the point in showing the premium content with a div on top. We are completely able to select and copy&paste it or save the page deleting .well container.
Anyway, in spite of critics about the idea, is nice to see GWT + Bootstrap together.
The lack of knowledge of foreign languages is clearly a issue. I think that our country is solving this making B1 mandatory to get you graduated and enforcing bilingual basic education on the capital. Not so much, but it seems to start giving some results.
We have to watch doubbed films when we're in groups because this problem. I know people that prefer original versions, but you can not exclude your friends when social watching.