On Jul 28, 2016 1:05 PM, "John Newman" wrote:

Thanks! Love stuff like this... this will make an interesting tool.

There are lots of interesting projects in the whole world, wow! It's always fascinating to think about all the possibilities! (*o*) #love <3 I am not a programmer, but you don't need to be a programmer to see beauty in some ideas and codes. I like open data and strange crazy stuff. :) < http://thegovlab.org/we-want-to-hear-from-you-what-is-the-value-of-open-data-for-developing-economies/> http://www.thegovlab.org/project-open-data-for-developing-economies.html I already saw cute Brazilian projects using Python in security area and a lovely project about a possibly safer cell phone, making interesting changes in CyanogenMod (USP, you will appreciate it, @Oda. Already saw it in person, yay!), but most of the ideas are under construction and development yet. I will share information when ready. :) I don't code, but code is cute! <3

On Jul 28, 2016 4:50 PM, "John" wrote:

Agree! I do code all the time at work but it's mostly script fu, shell

scripts, or, increasingly porting perl to Python or expanding old perl code.

I haven't written more than a few lines of C for like 10 years. Keep

meaning to look into using Android Studio or XCode... But always end up back in vim, hacking on little unixy stuff ;) No false modesty, John, I am the worst programmer of my country! And you know, I live in a huge country, hahaha!! ;D My coding style is very famous here and everybody can learn it easily. "I hate programming. I hate programming. Oh, God, it works!!! I f*cking love programming!!! I want to do it forever, yay!!! Sh¡t, what happened now?! I hate programming again! Code, code..." :P Hahaha!!! I flirt with a lot of languages for curiosity, but my heart belongs to Python. Well, at least all my pythonist friends are kicking me hardly because of ipython 5.0. etc, etc... I need to see it yet, whoops! :( They are the cutest programmers here and I love them, but... meh, I am feeling very very lazy and my real hobby in the last days is purring in the bed, with books, cute fluffy toys, blankets and smooth jazz... #meowfeelings (=^‥^=) Puuuuurrr... Rom rom rom... ~(=^‥^) Take care, meow! I will be kittening here! （＾ω＾） (Yup, still doing voluntary works and trying to bake the perfect crunchy Italian bread, but I need a brief vacation.)

On July 29, 2016 5:00:15 AM EDT, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

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Do you people have some methods for concentration? I have little time after works and one day i start to develop a c++ game i started months ago and never looked back, another day i try to learn ruby by adding random functionality to an online todo-listish project which will obviously reach a dead end eventually, some other days i try pic stuff on breadboards... When i take a timeout at work, i try to read papers on network protocols, and sometimes bitcoin, and sometimes other crypto stuff... It does give a momentary satisfaction, but the thing is, nothing ever gets done in the end. I started to think that being able to reach knowledge

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 08:00:01AM +0200, Bastiani Fortress wrote: this

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easily (smartphones, wikipedia, sci-hub, etc.) perhaps isn't a good thing, and diverts focus.

Indeed, in an age where we have unlimited access to information, the hardest thing can be deciding what to say no to, what to ignore.

So for success, hone your skill of determining what to ignore, as early and quickly as possible, so that the limited time you do spend on anything is spent on worthwhile things.

I don't think Zen's point can be stressed enough... There is literally so much out there, if you really want to learn something well it's important to develop a little tunnel vision, verging on myopia, until you have sufficient mastery... At which point you can branch back out to a broad view and see how your new understanding of <whatever> informs future research & learning endeavors... I have this exact problem myself. John -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

On Jul 28, 2016 11:23 PM, "Me" wrote:

Cyanogenmod was just killed by M$. Best alternative IMO is CopperheadOS.

Thank you a lot for the tip! :) The guy who is using CyanogenMod is a cute professor and researcher in a public institution here, the USP that mentioned before. Being sincere, he started the project some years ago, so I would consider changes too... :P