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Why I Recommend Against Hackety Hack

I don’t personally view them as being in competition with Hackety Hack, but someone else might. Hackety Hack was a project originally started by _why the lucky stiff to teach kids programming in Ruby. It often comes up in “I want to teach my kid programming” forum threads. So I downloaded Hackety Hack and decided to give it a try. I found Hackety Hack to be frustrating and was very unimpressed with it, and do not recommend it as a way to teach programming to a beginner. It’s kind of crap. Its main flaws are: It has little actual content. There’s a few other minor gripes I have with it: The upload feature doesn’t work at all (even though you’ll get a “Uploaded!” In the file editor, if you don’t save your program before running it, clicking Run simply does nothing (there’s no, “You need to save first.” message). RepRapWiki.

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OpenText Content Day London, See What You Missed

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NAS shoot-out: 5 storage servers battle for business

With prices dipping below $2,000 for a versatile storage server packing 10TB of disk, there's no wonder this market segment is witnessing extremely fast growth. Unfortunately for the business customer, it's also experiencing a lot of confusion. The reasons for both the success and the confusion are easy to see. There are at least three different user bases for these products and a seemingly endless number of use cases.

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A better way to learn Unix

Many, in fact, find it quite difficult to understand why the command line is needed at all on modern operating systems. Others take weeks to appreciate concepts like pipes and redirection. And still others, who manage to get past these two learning obstacles, have trouble distinguishing commands that work with file descriptions (i.e., metadata) from those that work with file content. It's as if they've entered a new world in which all of the rules are new and nothing that they've done before is of any use in navigating this new OS terrain. The problem with most introductions to Unix is that they cover too much too quickly.

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