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This was posted on HN yesterday, it’s an implementation of HashLife. If you wanted someone to explain the algorithm, a whiteboard would be way more useful than
by raganwald 15y ago
This was posted on HN yesterday, it’s an implementation of HashLife. If you wanted someone to explain the algorithm, a whiteboard would be way more useful than code. On the other hand, if you wanted someone who could write CoffeeScript, code is way more useful than markings on a board.
http://raganwald.github.com/cafeaulife/docs/cafeaulife.html http://raganwald.github.com/cafeaulife/docs/cafeaulife.html
- malingo 15y agoI fully agree, in part because several years ago I was asked to code (not sketch, not explain) Life on a whiteboard while interviewing at a large software company that many people would like to work for. It was absurd.