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One Laptop per Child. Federated States of Micronesia. Sugar and software Developers. Email lists and forums (general). Email lists and forums (technical). Brian's wiki page, listing some of his mad coding work. OLPC's internships, 2009-2010. Dalana University worked with a school in Ethiopia in 2009. Help keep the One Laptop per Child program going at the São João middle school in São Tomé and Príncipe. Bug tracking and related development work. Walter's personal and Sugar-related blog. OLPC Australia ha...
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Rowan's World, Et Cetera
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Rowan's World, et Cetera. Voting reform won’t stop us getting an answer we don’t like. By Rowan on 10 May, 2015. Permalink: http:/ rwec.co.uk/q/voting-reform. Is Facebook a community, and other pressing issues of social governance. By Rowan on 12 October, 2014. Permalink: http:/ rwec.co.uk/q/moderation. Losing our way in the tapestry of religious debate. By Rowan on 19 April, 2014. We live in a time where there is a lot of debate about religion – is it a force for good, or for bad? Here, I will attempt t...
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Reasons to support same-sex marriage – the short version! « Rowan's World, Et Cetera
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Rowan's World, et Cetera. Reasons to support same-sex marriage – the short version! By Rowan on 10 July, 2012. I’m quite pleased with my blog post about why legalising same-sex marriage is the only logical option. It took me ages to finish, and I think it’s quite thorough. But at over three thousand words long, it’s not exactly bite-sized! So here I present its boiled down essence, in the form of an imaginary dialog. It follows the same order as the original post. Before arguing with them. Well… ap...
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Why legalising same-sex marriage is the only logical option « Rowan's World, Et Cetera
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Rowan's World, et Cetera. Why legalising same-sex marriage is the only logical option. By Rowan on 8 July, 2012. Ever since a friend posted a quote on Facebook from this article about same-sex marriage by Archbishop John Sentamu. When I was first thinking about this, I came up with what I thought was the killer answer to the whole debate, in the form of a simple thought experiment. I realise now that that was a touch optimistic, but I want to start off with that thought experiment anyway. Eve’s par...
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Securely Importing and Exporting CSV with PostgreSQL « Rowan's World, Et Cetera
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Rowan's World, et Cetera. Securely Importing and Exporting CSV with PostgreSQL. By Rowan on 16 February, 2014. Many moons ago, I posted a surprisingly popular answer on StackOverflow. Regarding how to write to CSV files using PostgreSQL. The answer, in a nutshell, is the. Statement. But there’s a catch – PostgreSQL imposes strict security limitations on the use of this statement, which are best dealt with using another feature, the. CSV made easy: the COPY statement. The relevant manual page. COPY (SELEC...
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Daylight Savings Time: a White Lie, or a Waste of Time? « Rowan's World, Et Cetera
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Rowan's World, et Cetera. Daylight Savings Time: a White Lie, or a Waste of Time? By Rowan on 5 April, 2010. But when it comes to what time we have to get up in the morning, they’d rather hide behind an out-dated lie. Update: Put your name towards something more reasonable: the Campaign for Real Time. You’re right about daylight savings time though – it’s like cutting a foot off one end of the blanket and sewing it on the other end in order to make the blanket longer. –. Getting up an hour earlier, going...
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Voting reform won’t stop us getting an answer we don’t like « Rowan's World, Et Cetera
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Rowan's World, et Cetera. Voting reform won’t stop us getting an answer we don’t like. By Rowan on 10 May, 2015. It seems to me that, 5 years ago, people saw the hung parliament result as an endorsement of the current system – the two-party system was breaking down, and in future elections people’s confidence in minor parties would increase, and the trend continue. When given a choice, in a national referendum, people. Which seems a bit of a stretch. To rule the country in a way which accounts best for t...
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Losing our way in the tapestry of religious debate « Rowan's World, Et Cetera
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Rowan's World, et Cetera. Losing our way in the tapestry of religious debate. By Rowan on 19 April, 2014. We live in a time where there is a lot of debate about religion – is it a force for good, or for bad? Is belief in a supreme being fundamentally less enlightened than acceptance of the scientific consensus? And so on. But a lot of the arguments. Are poorly thought through, and make fundamental errors of logic. I want to be clear, though, that this mistake is made on. So I’m not sure what a godd...
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Abstract Absurdities: Fear of releasing code
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Saturday, January 24, 2009. Fear of releasing code. Alright, so this post is going to be all Captain Emo. I wanted to write about something I've realized I do, with the hope that if someone else is unfortunate enough to have the same habit that maybe they'll realize it as well. I sometimes have a ridiculously irrational fear of actually finishing up and releasing my personal projects. Oh crap that was dumb. I'm pretty sure that my release of XHB couold be pretty. January 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM. This reminds...
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python – Urchin
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Python Tutorial: Mesh Addon in Blender. This year at Libreplanet I gave a small talk about Python in Blender. My primary goal behind was to talk about the ways that Blender, by exposing its Python API directly in the interface, there for users to discover, gives a new meaning to ‘free software’ not just in licensing or community (though these things […]. Python Tutorial: Mesh Addon in Blender. 8211; I’ll post something if it does. In the meantime, I recorded a Python tutorial for just this part:. However...
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