Notices by Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social), page 13

Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 10:06:50 EDT Andy Balaam
- 🌿 d o n a 🌿
Wow, this by @dona is amazing! https://dona-vajgand.tumblr.com/image/124863841559
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  Dona Vajgand: Photo
  
  🌿 Illustrator & video game artist. 🌿 Commissions are OPEN!
dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 01:28:33 EDT dansup

If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse

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Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 08:12:30 EDT Andy Balaam
- Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto:
@Curator know anyone who might be interested?

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Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 08:10:20 EDT Andy Balaam

I would like to pay for a t-shirt design. I'll look around for people taking commissions, but if you spot this give me a ping. I'd like something that says "Code like a girl" and features a cool, geeky young woman totally in the zone at her keyboard. Send me some examples of your work and prices!

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Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-May-2018 19:37:07 EDT Andy Balaam

You can support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/andybalaam
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  Andy Balaam is creating Programming Videos | Patreon
  
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  Become a patron of Andy Balaam today: Read 133 posts by Andy Balaam and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators.
Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-May-2018 19:36:41 EDT Andy Balaam

Clever Things People Do In Groovy So You Have To Know About Them https://youtu.be/WWaoDuRoH50
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  Clever Things People Do In Groovy So You Have To Know About Them
  
  By Andy Balaam from YouTube
~$ set HOME=💜 (sakrecoer@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 19:01:16 EDT ~$ set HOME=💜

I heard people use fingerprints to login, so i tattooed my password on my arm.

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Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 04:40:04 EDT Andy Balaam

Ctrl-X Ctrl-E in bash lets you use your editor to write commands. Thanks to @freebsdfrau@twitter for the tip!

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Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 05:23:52 EDT Andy Balaam

Want a dev. manager job in Chiswick, London? It's pretty fun here. https://www.openmarket.com/company/careers/open-positions/?p=job%2FoKzs7fwC
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  Open Positions
  
  By Christopher Robson from OpenMarket
  
  Open Positions
Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 04:09:03 EDT Andy Balaam

If you liked my #ACCUConf video/talk on Scheme, I go into more detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byofGyW2L10&list=PLgyU3jNA6VjRMB-LXXR9ZWcU3-GCzJPm0
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  Scheme 1: Feel the cool (all parts)
  
  By Andy Balaam from YouTube
Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-May-2018 11:55:57 EDT Andy Balaam

My ACCUConf talk on Scheme Lisp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1clbGDczI (re-recorded since the mic broke)
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  Scheme Lisp: Feel the Cool - Andy Balaam [ACCU 2018]
  
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Charlag (charlag@birb.site)'s status on Tuesday, 08-May-2018 08:16:29 EDT Charlag

"Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming"
https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/conversations-with-a-six-year-old-on-functional-programming/
#fp #programming
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  Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
  
  By Brent from blog :: Brent -> [String]
  My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?”
  
  At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just answer straightforwardly: “I’m reading a very long story about free theorems.”
  
  He persisted. “What are free theorems?”
  
  Never one to shrink from a pedagogical challenge, I thought for a moment, then began: “Do you know what a function is?” He didn’t. “A function is like a machine where you put something in one end and something comes out the other end. For example, maybe you put a number in, and the number that is one bigger comes out. So if you put in three, four comes out, or if you put in six, seven comes out.” This clearly made sense to him, so I continued, “The type of a function machine tells you what kinds of things you put in and what kinds of things come out. So maybe you put a number in and get a number out. Or maybe you put in a list of numbers and get a number out.” He interrupted excitedly, “Or maybe you could put words in??” “Yes, exactly! Maybe you can put words in and get words out. Or maybe there is a function machine where you put other function machines in and get function machines out!” He gasped in astonishment at the idea of putting function machines into function machines.
  
  “So,” I concluded, “a free theorem is when you can say something that is always true about a function machine if you only know its type, but you don’t know anything about what it does on the inside.” This seemed a bit beyond him (and to be fair, free theorems are only interesting when polymorphism is involved which I definitely didn’t want to go into). But the whole conversation had given me a different idea.
  
  “Hey, I have a good idea for a game,” I said. “It’s called the function machine game. I will think of a function machine. You tell me things to put into the function machine, and I will tell you what comes out. Then you have to guess what the function machine does.” He immediately liked this game and it has been a huge hit; he wants to play it all the time. We played it while driving to a party yesterday, and we played it this morning while I was in the shower. So far, he has correctly guessed:
  
  I tried but that was a bit tough for him. I realized that in some cases he may understand intuitively what the function does but have trouble expressing it in words (this was also a problem with ), so we started using the obvious variant where once the guesser thinks they know what the function does, the players switch roles and the person who came up with function specifies some inputs in order to test whether the guesser is able to produce the correct outputs.
  
  was also surprisingly difficult for him to guess (though he did get it right eventually). I think he was just stuck on the idea of the function doing something arithmetical to the input, and was having trouble coming up with some sort of arithmetic procedure which would result in no matter what you put in! It simply hadn’t occurred to him that the machine might not care about the input. (Interestingly, many students in my functional programming class this semester were also confused by constant functions when we were learning about the lambda calculus; they really wanted to substitute the input somewhere and were upset/confused by the fact that the bound variable did not occur in the body at all!)
  
  After a few rounds of guessing my functions, he wanted to come up with his own functions for me to guess (as I knew he would). Sometimes his functions are great and sometimes they don’t make sense (usually because his idea of what the function does changes over time, which of course he, in all sincerity, denies), but it’s fun either way. And after he finally understood , he came up with his own function which was something like
  
  inspired, I think, by his kindergarten class where they were learning about pairs of numbers that added up to .
  
  Definitely one of my better parenting days.
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-May-2018 01:55:53 EDT r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

*gasp* Facebook weakened WhatsApp encryption so they could open it up for businesses by selling user data and making a profit
Oh wait, no. That’s not surprising at all
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/economy/whatsapp-founder-plans-to-leave-after-broad-clashes-with-parent-facebook/2018/04/30/49448dd2-4ca9-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?noredirect=on

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Marco Zehe (marcozehe@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 30-Apr-2018 09:59:31 EDT Marco Zehe

OK, all you #Mastodon instance admins, this might be the beginning of a new wave of users coming onto the network.
Twitter sold data to Cambridge Analytica; data sales accounted for 13% of Twitter's revenue in 2017
https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/30/cambridge-analytica-twitter/
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  Twitter sold data to Cambridge Analytica; data sales account for 13% of revenue
  
  By Ben Lovejoy from 9to5Mac
  
  Facebook came under massive fire for first allowing Cambridge Analytica to hoover up user data from the platform, and second keeping quiet when it found out about it. But it turns out that Twitter has directly sold data to the company …
  
  The news was revealed by the Telegraph over the weekend, and was confirmed by Twitter, which says that it has now banned ads by the company.
  
  A Twitter spokesman confirmed the ban and said: “Twitter has also made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned and operated by Cambridge Analytica. This decision is based on our determination that Cambridge Analytica operates using a business model that inherently conflicts with acceptable Twitter Ads business practices.
  
  One difference, however, is that Facebook allowed the company to collect data users would have expected to be available only to their Facebook friends; Twitter data is almost all publicly available. There is, though, a big gulf between reading individual tweets and mass-collection of same for analysis.
  
  The Telegraph notes that data sales made up 13% of Twitter’s total revenue last year.
  
  Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
  
  Check out 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news:
Chelsea E. Manning (xychelsea@botsin.space)'s status on Thursday, 26-Apr-2018 23:10:06 EDT Chelsea E. Manning
- Chelsea E. Manning
RT @xychelsea excited to announce our official senate campaign website and our complete platform 😎💕🌈 #WeGotThis https://xychelsea.is/running
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  Chelsea Manning for U.S. Senate
  
  from Chelsea
  
  We don't need new or better leaders. We need each other. We can do better.
Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Apr-2018 05:02:47 EDT Andy Balaam

My #ACCUConf talk (on Scheme) recording didn't work, but I have re-done it at home and it is going up on the ACCU Youtube.

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Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Apr-2018 03:50:41 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

Great video from OMGUbuntu summarising everything new in #Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 which will be released later today. #isitoutyet
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/ubuntu-18-04-whats-new-video

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Andy Balaam (andybalaam@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Apr-2018 09:24:21 EDT Andy Balaam
- inmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSC
@inmysocks dependencies are scary

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F-Droid (fdroidorg@mastodon.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 18:40:02 EDT F-Droid

For people wanting to help updating/unblocking/adding apps, have a look at our issue tracker: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata and request for packaging tracker: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues
You'll find docs here: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/ and drop by on #fdroid on freenode if you need help.
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  Data for the main F-Droid repository at https://f-droid.org
./graft (graft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Apr-2018 17:34:00 EDT ./graft
- Andy Balaam
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