Jimmy

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by Jimmy 13y ago
I agree. The number of resources available on the internet for beginning programmers is astounding. You can find tutorials and documentation for any language that you might want to learn. Professional-quality tools are available for free
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by Jimmy 13y ago
Seriously. I'm not offended by this ad, but shouldn't these people understand that modern technology only works because of programmers? Why would coding be a target of ridicule?
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by Jimmy 13y ago
>I know it is a hard pill to swallow that such a pedagogical luddite such as Sal Khan is having such a broad and important impact on learning when the professionals are struggling mightily. How are we quantifying Khan Academy's &quo
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by Jimmy 13y ago
Bullshit. You can still get a job writing COBOL. C, C++, and Java are also older than 5 years.
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by Jimmy 13y ago
On the other hand, if all of those "circuses" disappeared tomorrow - not just the sports, but the music, the art, the novels, the films, the video games, everything - you probably wouldn't like it very much.
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by Jimmy 13y ago
So everyone working in J or F# has a dead-end job?
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by Jimmy 13y ago
And Cartesian dualism is still alive with some philosophers... ideas don't die easily.
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by Jimmy 13y ago
Ruby is an extremely dynamic language, where you can redefine almost anything at runtime: def f() puts "f1" end f() if true def f() puts "true" end else def f() puts "false&
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by Jimmy 13y ago
>"The difference between Lisp and Java, as Paul Graham has pointed out, is that Lisp is for working with computational ideas and expression, whereas Java is for expressing completed programs. As James [Gosling] says, Java requires y
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by Jimmy 14y ago
Excelling at a science test for 15 year-olds is meaningless. When women equal or surpass men in terms of the number of papers published in top journals, then we'll have a story.
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by Jimmy 14y ago
>academia's a non-concern by this point. Could you expand on what you mean by this? I'm just curious what your viewpoint is.
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by Jimmy 14y ago
[citation needed]
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by Jimmy 14y ago
>the coolest thing he could possibly do would probably STILL be that same startup, or something equivalent. The coolest thing he could possibly do would be getting his Ph.D. and becoming the next Newton, Gauss, Turing, or equivalent.
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by Jimmy 14y ago
Interesting, but your ability to memorize sequences of numbers is almost completely irrelevant to your ability to do higher-level math, and the hypothesis that memorization "compounds into more knowledge and better math skills for these Chi
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by Jimmy 14y ago
The main reason it's hard to read math papers is because they contain complex, difficult ideas. Even professional mathematicians take a long time to read papers, and they usually won't be able to understand papers outside of their own spec
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by Jimmy 14y ago
Most people in the USA outside of academia haven't even heard of Russell, and those that have certainly wouldn't condemn or revile him.
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by Jimmy 15y ago
>If you know what you're talking about, you can say it in the plainest words and you'll be perceived as having a good style. Clearly PG has never read Ulysses.
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by Jimmy 15y ago
But it's not a better and prettier interface. It's just awful. Granted, the only ads that appear on a Timeline page are in a narrow column off to the side (I didn't even know there were any ads until I specifically checked for them after
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by Jimmy 16y ago
It's not just based on PLT Scheme, it is PLT Scheme, rebranded.
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by Jimmy 16y ago
Breaking News: If you lie, people will sometimes believe you. Details at 11.
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by Jimmy 17y ago
Can math study everything that is true? No. As far as the things it studies goes, are they true? Yes.
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by Jimmy 17y ago
>Nobody in their right mind would claim that African Americans are getting the same chances today, on average, that Caucasians are getting; but none the less changing the laws meant a great deal. What do you mean by this?
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by Jimmy 17y ago
It's called "Hacker News" for a reason.
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by Jimmy 17y ago
But the teachers are right, you know. Professional mathematicians doing research will practically jump at the chance to tell you that their work is meant to be beautiful, not practical. I think that's the message we should be imparting to
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by Jimmy 17y ago
I think that would count as a computer system.
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by Jimmy 17y ago
As someone who didn't even own a mobile phone until half a year ago (and still doesn't like the idea of them), I don't really like the sound of this.
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Adventures in Lisp application deployment(ahefner.livejournal.com)
16 points by Jimmy 17y ago|7 comments
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by Jimmy 17y ago
I've never found a use for the word "dweeb". I always refer to the people that zimbabwe describes as "geeks", nerds with no particular interest or skills in an area of academics (but they still like to engage in nerdy activities).