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They're not just another calculator app or news reader, so who cares if its not the prettiest or easiest thing to use in the world. They are an interface to actually useful services.

>Didn't stop me from learning C and writing games on my TI calculator. These were the dominant media for a while, but your CLI program in 2014 isn't very interesting to anyone else.

When I was younger, before Fiorina stepped up to be the first to rape the corpses of the founders, I was a massive fan of HP. My first graphing calculator was an HP48G, which taught me the joys of Lisp... well, Psil, because it came with Reverse Polish Lisp.

* Later, a women asks whether the pendant the author is wearing, which is from Nairobi, is "a calculator". * "Steve" later informs the author, "its ok to make jokes about slavery because thats over".

While considering a price adjustment on a high-value item I'm selling, I went to their fee calculator to explore some other price points. I was mystified to see not only the fee I expected of ~$55, but a 'New Fee' of $123.

If we taught mathematics like we taught computing, people would only ever use calculators and never see equations. They wouldn't know how to solve x = 5 + y and y = 2x + 1 or if solving it was even possible. Mathematics to them would be only what the calculator can do.

Jobs sold his minivan and Wozniak sold his HP scientific calculator to initially fund development of the Apple I. If you have the option of being born to parents with extreme wealth and connections, I highly recommend it over fundraising.

He and his mother have been trying to gain him access to distance education in mathematics, but prison authorities have denied him access to even a graphing calculator. 225MB of bilingual English/Swedish documents have also been released.