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i totally love the esp201. its very convenient to work with in eclipse/code blocks and can run C and C++. the documentation is a bit sparse though but thats mostly no problem as theres a great community behind it.
But the biggest point for me is the size + the price. Why would one use a Raspi or Arduino to read out some moisture-meter if it can be done with a 3 dollar hardware piece the size of a fingernail?
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After 1 year its a bit less terrible, I'll give you that. But still: Your kid isn't able yet to talk. If someone touches her/him you'll never know.
But in Holland, its even more worse. The Dutch send them into Day Care after 3 month. Some kids can't even roll around at that time. Then you have a day-care-mommy/kid ratio of 6:1. If you are lucky. Can't see them changing all diapers in time.
And about being bored: Well, if more mommies would be at home, they would eventually socialise more during the day and therefore the kids would have all the social interaction. But at least under the supervision of their own blood. Which loves them and doesn't see them as 'products' for their 'customers'.
Thats why we decided that my wife stays at home. Its anyway terrible to send kids < 3 years to child care. They can't even talk to complain.
Thanks for posting. The article "Executable Pseudo-Code" is a great example for the incredible expressiveness given by Lisp Macros. The author implemented Brandes' code for betweenness centrality in such a manner, that it nearly 100% resembles the pseudo code AND performs, in terms of speed, at the same level as the C++ boost implementation.
It is great to see such development and it will hopefully bring back Lisp a bit more into the (academic) community.