James_Johnson

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   by James_Johnson 17y ago

   See also, "preliminary step a of part 2 of my senior compiler project." Aren't compilers classes common in undergraduate CS programs? Don't they all do this? E: In case you were curious, "part 2" of the project was implementing a LL(1) recu
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   by James_Johnson 18y ago

   Exactly. Now that I have a Mac, Mac fanboys all assume I'm one of them and come up to me in the coffee shop to say, "hey, aren't we so much better than everyone else because of the computers we bought?" I proceed to rant about all my littl
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   by James_Johnson 18y ago

   I recently acquired a MacBook after using a variety of standard laptops with Linux installed on them. In my experience, the Mac is better as a /consumer/ laptop, while the Linux box is better as a /geek/ laptop. I'm sure that I'll get bett
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   by James_Johnson 19y ago

   Crushes goblet full of wine Groovy.
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   by James_Johnson 19y ago

   I think that Norvig's point in this article is that to really learn to use a language, along with all of its specific idioms and everything (so that you're not just writing "Java in Python"), one needs to study and use it for far longer tha
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   by James_Johnson 19y ago

   Well, if he's going to learn to be a hacker he might as well learn about all of the age-old flamewars too.