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What a Computer Really Is
- dang 12y ago"Programmers: You Probably Don’t Know What a Computer Is" is too baity a title for Hacker News.
- ankurdhama 12y agoA computer is a machine which you can use to "simulate" a set of rule. Any other definition is just pure fantasy and hand waving.
- agumonkey 12y agoI like the fact that i's purely syntactic reordering between two encodings. 2 > __x_ 1 > ___x | (ADD) | 3 < __xx
- seandenigris 12y agoA hammer is just a long handle with a piece of metal on the end, but if you're not building something valuable with it, who cares?