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I don't know how it works, but if it's not possible to use older firmware, why would developers want to test on it?

Good point

And today, chances are the firmware is updatable, even if it's not documented/supported.


I don't think you have to be academic to be successful in open source. One example of non-university developed financially successful open source would be MySQL. I'm sure there are others from other parts of Europe that I'm not familiar with.

This is an interesting aspect, and some good projects do come from Europe

But open source projects still need a roadmap, focus and maintenance, regardless of how they are funded.


There's always Finland.

As far as I know, Nokia is still pretty strong in Europe (?).


Nokia's downfall was their own doing. And their telecom equipment division is still going strong.

> EU lost its only competitive tech company

Spotify, Angry Birds (Finnish even), several Fintechs, sends their regards.


That wouldn't be the same. The point was filtering a list (which could contain anything, not just a sequence from 1 to 4).

The example seems a bit strange to me. Why does it have the check for i being less than 5, when the problem is "get all elements _greater_ than 5, then just the even ones of that set.". Was it supposed to be "remove all elements greater than 5..."? (edit: although the code would then only work for sorted lists; I think it'd be better to just loop over the whole list and have "(and (< i 5) (evenp i))" as the condition for collecting)


> which goes against that idea.

Then remove 'for' as it iterates and checks for a condition at the same time

Remove list comprehensions, as they do multiple things in one single statement

Remove map/filter/zip as they iterate and apply a function

Remove the '+=' operator (though x = x + 1 still do more than one thing at the same time)


> you should be training like you are gonna have to fight

Maybe I misunderstood what you mean, but that sounds like a pretty stupid thing to do. When you practice advancing under direct/indirect fire, do you actually have machine guns/mortars firing towards you? I would guess that you don't (we certainly never did in the Finnish Defence Forces).


> A better equivalence would be the question, how should your hypothetical army be equipped and trained.

Agreed. And if standard training takes 12 months and you're being invaded now, what do you do?


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