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Learning to code is learning to use logic and reason, and express your intent in a consistent, understandable, repeatable way. Learning to code is learning to get under the skin of a problem and reduce it to it’s simplest form. Learning to code is learning to harness power external to yourself and provide instructions to realise your ideas – whether that be directly to a computer, to delegate to one or more professional programmers or even a human team that work for and with you in any dicipline. Learning to code is ultimately a fantastic way to gain a multitude of transferrable skills.
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This is ridiculous.
This is ridiculous.
Not a day has gone by this week (and indeed the last, and the one before that) without the front page of HackerNews being filled with stories on SOPA, Megaupload, corrupt politicians, killing <name of industry>, copyright and looming revolution. Its gotten to a point where everyone seems to have lost all vision of the world outside of the little bubble we’re currently stuck in, and its starting to drive me insane.
We are a community of highly intelligent, highly driven world-changers, yet we have managed to waste the last year doing nothing to advance the world. Instead, we have been preoccupied fighting for our privacy and our perceived liberties and freedoms. We have overthrown corrupt governments, we have stopped damaging legislation in its tracks (albeit loosing a number of file-sharing services along the way) and we’ve gone toe-to-toe with massive corporations and won, but we’re fighting the symptoms, not the disease. Why havent we fixed this yet?
We need to educate those in power to make informed decisions on legislation concerning the internet, we need to begin pooling our resources and strengthening the community we have spent so much time and energy building and more than anything, we need to get back to work.
