The first mention sounded like C++. For verbosity (second mention), I'd guess Java. The third mention sounded like JavaScript where he said something to the effect of unexpected tangling, but those are guesses based on what Google uses and Rob's brief description.
What you see there is very early, I wrote that in a day, the point is to build on it and provide more shortcuts for things that suck to do/type in Debian. One thing I am planning to tackle on the long run is building packages, as in creating an option to install efemeral packages like you can with the AUR in Arch. Other than that, it's mostly a mapping with combined commands (`jogurto -Syu aptitude` updates, then upgrades, then installs aptitude). See it as a kind of alias file.
I wrote it because I love Arch package management, but I don't like the fragility of it, found that out the hard way... I try to bring most of the bliss over via this tool.
playful engagement can also be useful or even important. I think open-mindedness is more important here: you need to be able to absorb new concepts and accept experience into your action during the practice. I think that's why people with autism (looking at it through the Intense World glasses) can learn some things really fast, although they don't intentionally train certain things.
Playful engagement is certainly important, especially if you're practicing skills outside of a structured, measurable, competitive activity, but I'd question anything being more important to mastery than deliberate practice: Is it my bias or are successful competitors almost always very serious during practice, and relaxed after winning "matches"?
Biggest question for me: is someone motivated enough to fork it and lead further development? Or should I create a mailing list and ask people to join there?
Biggest question for me: what is it? Have any screenshots / text examples? I've never heard of it, and now that this has been done, it's impossible to Google for.
I'm semi-perversely interested in porting it to Javascript :) But it'd strictly be a spare-time-when-I-feel-like-it-and-am-not-on-HN kind of project.
You can find it on Home of The Underdog. The official site got lost some rewrites ago, but there will probably come some new site again. I could add compiled versions to the repository for reference... It's a sokoban-like game, but a lot more enjoyable.
The level editor (Source Code got lost, but Apache-license is also valid for this one. If someone can disassemble it and create some maintainable sourcecode from it, very welcome)
http://plasmaworks.com/files/pits/pitsedit.zip
I might be interested in getting this to work on linux.
One question is, what license are the data files under, and if you could include them in the git repository.
Calibre can convert a Kindle DRM encumbered book to another format? News to me....and apparently the folks at Calebre since .azw isn't listed as one of the supported formats.
Calibre can't do the conversion, but AZW files are (most of the time) just MOBI files that have been DRM'd, so if you can break the DRM, you can easily convert it to something else (ePub, etc.) using Calibre. Fortunately, the Kindle DRM has been broken for quite some time, so there are plenty of ways to do this.
True, but if you're ideologically against DRM, it doesn't make sense to buy DRMed media even if you'll break it later. By giving them profit for DRMed media, you make it less likely that a non-DRM system will come about.
(At least, that's my reason for not getting a Kindle)
Very good point that I had not thought about. This is the challenge of business schools, they are teaching out of context. It may be a reason why so many MBA fail at been an entrepreneur.
It may be a reason why so many MBA fail at been an entrepreneur.
I suspect it's right there in the title: "Master of Business Administration". MBA's are master administrators for businesses, which is not the same thing as an entrepreneur.
