Dewie

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2011.
by Dewie 14y ago
> Most of the good coders I know have been doing it from a young age, As someone who started programming when I was 21, I sometimes feel like I don't stand a chance.
2012.
by Dewie 14y ago
> No, you aren't going to be doing pure functional programming very often. Some people claim that one is often able to make programs with a mostly functional core; in which case most of the code is purely functional. Do you not think th
2013.
by Dewie 14y ago
Finland is a little larger than Oregon, and only slightly more densely populated: 16.0/km² vs 15.0/km²; countries as far north as Alaska are generally not "densely populated", but maybe you mentally pictured it to be somewhere in central/we
2014.
by Dewie 14y ago
I haven't meditated somewhat regularly for years, though I want to pick up the habit. Meditation might be a good practice for many of us modern critters because it is the exact opposite of what we usually do - get a lot of stimuli from all
2015.
by Dewie 14y ago
Open-ended and subjective questions tend to be more interesting than questions that have a definite answer.
2016.
by Dewie 14y ago
Shocking news: people keep on wanting to compare the two countries when public education is a state-matter, in which case Oregon and Finland is very comparable with regards to geographical and population size(I guess not comparable in tempe
2017.
by Dewie 14y ago
> And comparing his experience a tiny European country with a small and homogenous population and thinking that the USA is going to have the the same challenges or possible solutions is a bit naive. "You seem to be unaware that public e
2018.
by Dewie 14y ago
> I agree that our K-12 sucks, but why is our university system considered good? For instance, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT/FSF, Carnegie-Mellon, UIUC, etc, have made valuable contributions to Computer Science (this is becoming less true as