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7) Project estimation

• DonHopkins 6y ago
  -1) Keeping secrets
  • weeboid 6y ago
    Luckily, building better garbage collectors is easy: ref pointers to each cons
    • wizzwizz4 6y ago
      Naming things is the hardest thing to do in computer science.
    • DonHopkins 6y ago
      Ha ha! I get the reference: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~wiseman/humor/ai-koans.html http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~wiseman/humor/ai-koans.html Moon instructs a student One day a student came to Moon and said: “I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.” Moon patiently told the student the following story: “One day a student came to Moon and said: ‘I understand how to make a better garbage collector... [Ed. note: Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.]
      • weeboid 6y ago
        old heads and new alike ~~grok~~ vibe