DaveInTucson

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by DaveInTucson 14y ago
> the Tucson experience of insane heat for about five months of the year. I've got to object to this. Yeah, June and July (and to a lesser extent August) are pretty intense, but I'd hardly characterize the rest of the summer heat as "i
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by DaveInTucson 14y ago
I took the Web Development course at Udacity too. It was probably more work than some were expecting (especially for a 2xx-level course), but Steve's knowledge and enthusiasm made for a great, challenging course.
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by DaveInTucson 14y ago
Somewhat of a side-topic, but I just finished the Coursera compilers class. It didn't seem watered down to me, covering regular expression (including NFA and DFA representations), parsing theory and various top-down and bottom-up parsing a
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by DaveInTucson 15y ago
Since this is already a post about language and writing: > Point 3 peaked my interest The homonym you want here is pique[1] [1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pique definition 3
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by DaveInTucson 15y ago
How many functionally inequivalent C programs are there? Surely this is undecidable?
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by DaveInTucson 15y ago
It's been a long time since I had my Theory of Computation class, but as I recall, the proof that there are computationally undecidable questions uses the same diagonalization technique[1] used to demonstrate that the real numbers are not c
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by DaveInTucson 15y ago
why this does not work: [1,2,3].map({2:4}) (in JavaScript)? It does (or, at least, it can ) if you give Array.prototype.map a suitable value. Here's one possible implementation: Array.prototype.map = function(o) { var copy = thi