Anecdotal data from Estonia: I just checked what's the level of maths we have for the 3rd grade (which here corresponds to 9-10 year olds):
(Google Translate):
* reads, writes, sorts and compares natural numbers 0–10,000;
* presents a number as the sum of units, tens, hundreds and thousands;
* reads and writes ordinal numbers;
* adds and subtracts numbers mentally within 100, and in writing within 10,000;
* knows the multiplication table (multiplies and divides by single-digit numbers mentally within 100);
* knows the names of the members and results of four arithmetic operations;
* finds the numerical value of a letter in equations by trial and error or by analogy;
* determines the correct order of operations in an expression (parentheses, multiplication/division, addition/subtraction).
So you have elements of pre-algebra but actual algebra will be covered only in the 4th/5th grade (10-12 yo).
The "retaliation" against US is to disrupt communications between.. Finland and Germany?
Applying the same logic, Ukraine should retaliate against Russia for bombing their hospitals with an attack on.. Iranian civilian infrastructure? Did I get that right?
I was an early user of Foursquare and also tried to contribute fixes back when the Foursquare Android app was still open source(!).
From a end-user's perspective, it was perfect! It was gamified just enough to be engaging but not so much that it would become annoying or a grind. It was tied to the real-world via restaurants and other places offering special discounts when you "checked-in" or became the mayor of a place. It had people contributing essentially-real-time updates to metadata of all places (opening hours, location, description, phone numbers, images, etc) - way before Google Maps user contributions were really a thing. It had a social network aspect to it that actually worked etc etc..
It pains me that Foursquare, the company, failed to figure out how to actually monetize any of this and keep the thing going that made them popular.. so they grasped as straws and did the whole app split thing (WTH, really) and the community just faded out as far as I can tell.
An oddball question, but do you have that government document/card that also works as a smartcard to create digital signatures? Does that get used typically in interactions with the government (or maybe even businesses)?
Late answer but just a note that if you're interested in the tech aspect of it, then the Estonian ID cards implement the IAS ECC spec for all the public key stuff:
> The application enabling PKI functionalities in Estonian eID Documents is IAS-ECC, a sophisticated but standardised solution conforming to CEN TS 15480-2 (European eID) with extra features.
> do you have that government document/card that also works as a smartcard to create digital signatures?
Yes. All ID and residence cards in Estonia include an embedded certificate pair for login (via PIN1) and sign (via PIN2).
> Does that get used typically in interactions with the government
ID Cards, SmartID and MobileID are the only ways to login to any government system or bank. (Some banks also have PIN calculators).
Extra info:
Instead of ID cards, on a daily basis most people use SmartID (same as ID cards, but as a mobile app) or MobileID (same, but embedded to the SIM card) for auth operations.
Many computers in the government, hospitals and schools have a keyboard with an ID card slot and users can (or sometimes are required to) use their ID cards to log in.
There's also a free-software DigiDoc4 app available for Desktop and Mobile, which allows users to sign or encrypt any document or folder for free, using one of the 3 authentication methods mentioned above. You can use it to sign contracts like rent or business.
You may notice that the first reference is from java, and i bet js lifted it from there. They may have been aware of java because they lifted the name too.
> At one point, we had so many experiments that literally nobody except employees were using "that version" of the software. Everyone else was using some slightly different version
The output in various languages in rather questionable. Not wrong per-se as it's totally valid code, but just.. not idiomatic and not how a developer fluent in that language would implement it.
John Bolton and James Bach are the founders of RST [1] and generally big names in the “formal” software testing space. Presumably the testers.ai folks aren’t fans. :p
> VideoFX isn't available in your country yet.