Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
> I've always been direct and never had a problem telling it like it is. I know that type.
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> Python to Excel and declares Excel superior because it can make graphs much more easily. I don't really think he meant to say that . I think he is using a writing style which emphasizes with different view points, namely seasoned
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I initially thought the same thing. But then I considered that many of the theoreticians probably write their papers in LaTeX.
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Some people are excited about programming in the sense that they can "make the computer do stuff". But the way I see it, I make the computer "do stuff" by just simply pressing the power-on button. And writing a "hel
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It's perfectly possible for a GUI to have a command history, if the GUI is just a front end to a CLI. Then you can click around when you want to explore, and can go to over to the CLI when you know what you want to do and want to estab
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I thought .edu was a US-thing.
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Is modern programming hard to learn, or is it more that people want to do more fancy stuff than before, and quicker? Making a java app is hard for the uninitiated, but compiling a few java classes just requires a compiler (essentially) and
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I already have a backpack. The same one that I've had since I was more of a pupil than a student.
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This isn't just being incredibly pedantic[1], it is more importantly incredibly insulting. I assure you, most people are intelligent enough to realize that money doesn't grow on trees, that the "free" education is funded
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Did you understand the original Haskell function?
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> In my experience, the fact that the compiler can check this stuff ends up subtracting cognitive load. Of any language I've used, Rust code is the code that I worry least about. That's interesting. So this holds for languages
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Raw pointers are safe if used very carefully... :)
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It's a construction set with many pieces which you can combine to make new instruments. Maybe you have a mouldable body which can be made to support one neck and several auxiliary strings... and then you have a harp guitar. Maybe add s
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How is The Netherlands even relevant? Are Dutch people particularly troll-ish?
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Doesn't seem that way to me, either. She comes up in any discussion about women and programming (in a historical perspective). She even has a programming language named after her. Ada Lovelace is the Marie Curie of computer science - t
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Don't worry. If agencies like NASA and Elon Musk manage to get anywhere with their Mars ventures, we can go back to praising America and free enterprise soon enough (since it apparently is a choice between that and communism/total
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Now this is a good rebuttal[1]. Factual, straight to the point while not being excessive. [1] Or response, or whatever the best term for it is.
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Quick! Fire from the hips...
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People are different when it comes to how their fat is distributed. Men tend to get a potbelly, as opposed to women who tend to become fat in a more distributed way. Considering that, I guess a person could change when it comes to how their
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> I'm not exempt to the social difficulties, but I have been guided and exposed to a large number of social situations by friends/family growing up since I have always been in mixed environment not dominated by people like myse
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> Also for instance one thing I consider great about Rust, not only Rust is open source but better its compiler and standard libraries are developed in Rust and thus you just have to read them to learn from probably the most skilled Rust
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So I guess I'll end up with a standing/treadmill workstation because sitting is unatural, and now also twitching/slightly evasive windows because staring at a fixed spot is unnatural. I guess the next thing after that is an i
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The IO Sin Bin seems to be about the same thing that you're concerned about. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-September...
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> Yeah, all forms of EFFECTIVE exercise are self torture. It seems effective enough for LaurensBER already, judging by all the benefits he/she lists.
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I could hardly stomach the self-congratulatory tone of the introduction. Jeez.
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I'm sensing a pattern...
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> Mostly people who know of the 10,000 hours rule don't embody it as being the cold, hard, dry truth, Eh, the granularity of the measurement tends to indicate the confidence of the possible deviation from the given measurement. Givi
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> Sure, but German universities are also surprisingly mediocre considering how good the Germans are at everything else. Which just puts into question how useful elite universities are, on the whole.
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> There'll be a lecture twice a week (four "semester hours", 2 times 2 * 45 minutes) and a two semester hour exercise session. The lecture will be held by a professor [1]; the exercise session for undergraduate courses wil
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My attitude towards charity is kind of the opposite. If I am to donate to charity, I want to concentrate on one or a few things, so that I'm able to actually research them and see for myself whether I think that the money will come to

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