+1 to this. I did Heathrow to Bermondsey for £110 (first time in London). Then next morning, found myself wondering why I didn't just use the train. On the way out, I did use the train, and lets just say, I still think about that £110.
It’s mostly trial and error. Based on my experience, I created a fictional project to identify reliable professionals. Through this process, I found a skilled developer, a UI/UX designer, and a graphic designer. We’ve recently completed an actual project together.
In 2003/2004, during my undergrad, I observed a recurring trend in the university's IT department. They struggled to retain Unix/Linux engineers for more than three months, primarily due to two reasons: the university's remote location (apparently engineers loved the city life) and the local telecom companies' at the time hired anyone who could type "ls" on a Linux shell. Recognizing an opportunity, I began self-studying FreeBSD and Linux, the operating systems used by the university for their internet services like DNS, email, and proxy servers. Before completing my degree, I applied for the sysadmin position at the uni. In the interviews, I was able to explain and answer even the hardest of questions. I was hired. I eventually went to "ls" elsewhere as well but this role, which I held for eight years, provided me with a foundational knowledge that I believe influences my career even to date!
My experience with Ubiquiti has only been positive. Granted the largest deployment I have made with their AP's is from 2010 (60+ Aps + Cisco backend + PacketFence). A lot could have changed especially with vendor lock-in that the article points out. At my current work place we use 10 AP's with a mix of Cisco and HP gear for Core and Access layers and everything works ok.
Because 7-bit ASCII didn't include accented characters used in many European langauges, there were national changes. The Finnish variant replaced {|}[\] with äöåÄÖÅ.
Which, btw, is why those symbols are acceptable as IRC nicknames (and why { is lowercase [, i.e., {some|one} and [some\one] are two equivalent nicknames). IRC was invented in Finland.
One might guess the people who decided on this replacement were not Unix programmers...
The lack of brackets, caret, tilde and other ASCII special characters on various localized keyboards was a real problem in the 1980s. The C language standard solved it by introducing trigraphs:
Of course you could still use {} etc, they just might show up as localized characters in your source code. There was no character set conversion involved at the source code level, your terminal font just might have had the glyph for ä in the place of {.
The people who designed the Finnish keyboard layout were definitely not programmers, though: https://kbdlayout.info/KBDFI/
Ditto with the Spanish (es) layout, they layout looks more apt for journalist and writters than programmers. I just switch to the us keymap with the compose key bound to right menu/right win key, so I can type áéíóú with compose key + ' + vowel (not pressed at the same time). Ñ is more cumbersome (compose key + ~ + n) but I can adapt XCompose under BSD/Linux for that.
This is a good project; please keep at it.
I think it might benefit more people in NA compared to the rest of the world. I did a quick search for "Flask Web Development", which I purchased one week ago on Amazon for AU$56($35). But it looks like I could get a used copy from AbeBooks (a result of a search on your site) for $8, the catch, I would need to pay $35 for shipping to Australia. If I had been in the US, I could have gotten free shipping or under $10 shipping which would make it all worth it.
I've just been working on this over the last 2-3 weeks so it's only optimized for the USA at the moment. I'm planning on have some popular regions such as UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, and India, functioning before the end of next week. Hopefully then you will find the product more useful :)
congratulations! WP has indeed come a long way, I was just checking up on what happened to Mambo, another CMS, and it seems to have fallen off the internet around 2008.
