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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Thought I'd throw a point(er) alongside these comments... Isn't the Python interpreter written in C?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
IMHO This issue of readability of languages is mostly taste. Personally, I like my code to be ugly as hell.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I'm all for making Computer Science education more accessible, but this code.org initiative and its "coding is easy!" and "everyone should learn to code!" and "you only need basic addition and subtraction
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> base 12 (or 24) and base 60 are actually much nicer to work with mentally than 10. I would say binary is the best base, and perhaps the least arbitrary of all bases since it is the simplest. EDIT: whoops, bad formatting.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> This research is definitely a net positive. I couldn't agree more, but that knowledge can be abused.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
As long as a rogue agent doesn't get their hands on this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/2122619.stm
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Did you mean literate programming? I was thinking more along the lines of IOCCC. No matter how unreadable the code is, if it compiles and runs without grievance, it is superior to most of the nonsensical, god-awful English seen on th
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Quite frankly I'm shocked and confused by some of the negativity I've seen expressed (including those from the HN community) towards code.org, and the idea of programming as a basic literacy in general. I couldn't agre
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was thinking of doing the exact opposite of this book, writing a book in C code that has to be compiled first.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Greg says he wrote his first LISP interpreter in FORTRAN, around the early 1970's. I was thinking that NEST might have code that emulates certain properties of LISP, I've heard of many LISP interpreters being written in other lang
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
There was one down the road from me until just last year: http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Gloucester-s-Skyline-Vani... I don't think it had been used for years, but it was a notable part of the Gloucester landscape.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Born in 1981, I would be classified as a Gen Y person. Some sentences that caught my eye: > Many employers complain of the demands their entry-level employees often make. I asked my previous employer that I didn't approve of havin
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I looked up NEST, written in C++ with Python. What, no LISP? When I hear AI being discussed LISP comes up fairly often. In the book "Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega" by Greg Chaitin, he mentions that Kurt Godel's work had a n
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
About three quarters through you see a gasometer, they're still a fairly common site around the UK.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
One of my definitions for hacker is someone who learns coding, while simultaneously being told by the majority of peers and relations that they are wasting their time and should stick to what they are capable of.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I found another article by the same guy on the right of the page, written in July of 2012: http://siek.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-semantics-of-familiar... ... Looks interesting, but it looks like I'll have to
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
With no formal background in CS and a C compiler, you'll run into data structures soon enough. I wouldn't worry about creativity and discovery . I found that writing a double linked list was damn entertaining, I thought it was a
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
An accountant has her purse stolen. The first thing she does is make a debit entry in the appropriate account in the thieves' ledger.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
At the top of the page: When I teach introductory computer science courses, I like to lighten the mood with some humor. Having a sense of fun about the material makes it less frustrating and more memorable, and it's even motivating if
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Many teachers will have to re-train, and some schools are likely to struggle to provide the computing resources needed to deliver the new curriculum. This is what I first thought when I started reading the article. If a teacher has troubl
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I believe nowadays they are an acquired taste, which is a big shame.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was thinking it depends on the style of beard: My favourite, The Franz-Joseph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Joseph_I_of_Austria A website with lots of different beards (all displayed on the same chin): http:&#
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I hardly ever smoke it in public, and most cops I have come across don't seem to be that relaxed. > but I've stood in the centre of Antwerp smoking a joint chatting to a police officer Did you offer him next up?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I recall another programmer being irritated by the letter and writing his own basic interpreter and asking $5 for it (which was far less than what Gates was asking). What price was Gates asking for? I did a quick calculation using:
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I've on multiple occasions been on a UK street, witnessed a very strong smell of weed with police officers walking along near me, and had them do nothing. Whether or not you get busted depends on the personal opinions of the pol
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
That attitude has been put to rest by a bevy of studies empirically showing that sleep in fact makes you smarter, stronger, and more creative. Oh, thanks a lot, that really gives me peace of mind. I'm going through a rather bad insom
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was wondering if Haskell would be good for scientific computation. It has bignum like Python, but I think it is more popular among mathematicians than physicists. Joe can emulate Emacs, Pico and another editor called WordStar (which I thi
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Just wearing google-goggles is enough to cause mass spleen-venting, who needs a 'duster'.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I thought the headers looked wicked, like a bizarre fantasy wilderness populated with fairies and leprechauns.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> It was an option the year before, but not enough people wanted to take it and the class was cancelled. Makes me wonder, if you were taking a physics degree now what would be on the table? I started on C++, then downgraded to C, I pre

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