Adlai

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by Adlai 17y ago
I'm not sure about that question. Another improvement you could make to the code display is to display the language in which the code is written.
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by Adlai 17y ago
I've had a bit of personal experience with Ritalin. I focus very well on things which interest me, but I have a much harder time focusing on anything less interesting. I tried Ritalin very briefly (for a few weeks). As far as I could tell,
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by Adlai 17y ago
I like the idea. I just made a quick test (visible here: http://www.resubj.com/inboxes/1152 ) to look at the code formatting. The formatting looks great for Ruby, but not-so-much for Lisp. Not a huge issue, but maybe when somebody clicks t
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by Adlai 17y ago
Am I the odd one out in listening to jazz while I code?
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by Adlai 17y ago
I actually don't have that much experience with Rails. I prefer Ruby over Python because of its flexibility -- Ruby doesn't force you to approach problems in a specific way just because the language designer decided that was the only way to
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by Adlai 17y ago
You could have computers for each student in the classroom, but I imagine that would be quite expensive. I don't see the problem with a projector. The teacher can control what material is displayed, and can thus choose to display relevant m
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by Adlai 17y ago
I don't think he wants traditional E-books. What I imagine when I hear the phrase "open-source online textbooks", I think of websites where you can navigate through chapters, appendices, etc -- similar to how some texts are already availabl
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by Adlai 17y ago
I really like the idea. However, there's a brief note in the article which isn't really addressed in detail: students need computer access to use an on-line text. Although computer access is increasing, poorer students wouldn't have the s
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by Adlai 17y ago
I'm disappointed that Ruby isn't getting this type of attention. I think that Ruby strikes a good balance by allowing highly readable code like Python, but tolerating denser syntax for when you don't feel like talking to a 3-year-old. Howev
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by Adlai 17y ago
I don't think that code reproduces the behavior of the original when the functions shift(tok) and reduce(tok) might return different values for successive calls. However, I don't know much about parsers and it could be that in the context o
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by Adlai 17y ago
Reminds me of a quote that was on the iGoogle page just a few days ago: The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes
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by Adlai 17y ago
But because it's "fluid and leaky", it's not going to fossilize... I think that every culture has had their fair share of overly-respected sophomores. How many do you think trolled around Athens, and were forgotten by history because nobody
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by Adlai 17y ago
All your people think that their ideas are unique and valuable. I'd say that's a good thing, though. It helps to understand that there are probably better ideas than yours, because then you don't sit put, but at the same time, it's good w
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by Adlai 17y ago
The point isn't that he started a "field". The point is that Dawkins's ideas about selfish/cooperative genes (and the extensions of those ideas to the very idea of ideas themselves) have given rise to new directions in biology (and philos
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by Adlai 17y ago
The "most fundamental parts" have been around for about 50 years. It's just a matter of combining them right. They are quote, eq, car, cdr ...
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by Adlai 17y ago
Dawkins... , whose books have contributed to [his field]... not at all. Ever heard of a "meme"? Dawkins has contributed plenty to his field, and he writes very accessible books. That essay by him obviously doesn't criticize the entire fie
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by Adlai 17y ago
Reminds me of this, which I dug out of a closet in my Aunt's house a few years ago: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17948
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by Adlai 17y ago
In my square for programming languages, SNOBOL and COBOL both made the list (in that order, too -- I've never even heard of SNOBOL!), but none of the following appear: (in no particular order...) C, C++, C#, Common Lisp, Java, Ruby, Smallta
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by Adlai 17y ago
I'd disagree... look at flying insects. Occasionally, a bee flies into my house through an open window. It often tries to fly through closed windows afterwards, suggesting that it is unable to perceive a transparent solid. Also, there's the
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by Adlai 17y ago
Chimps are very social animals. Ironically, one of their great cooperative activities is similar to that of humans: namely, killing eachother. From what I've learned about evolution, and "selfish gene" theory, it seems as though cooperation
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by Adlai 17y ago
Physical books are much more expensive to reproduce than an ebook. I don't think that libraries which stock ebooks will find much success in trying to control how many copies of their books are "out there" at any time. I think that they'd e
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by Adlai 17y ago
Some libraries have systems where you can put a book (or any other media that the library has, which they allow to be checked out) on reserve, and you get notified once it's available. However, that doesn't fix the fact that the concept of
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by Adlai 17y ago
Interesting. I'm curious to know whether the rooks improved in their abilities to use and craft "tools" as they encountered subsequent experiments, or whether their performance remained roughly constant. The rook seems very hesitant in the