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by NAFV_P 12y ago
All toasters are equal, but some toasters are more equal than others: http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Talkie_Toaster
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The watery sounds you find when listening to low bit-rate mp3, there was a bit of that in the video, especially the "Mary had a little lamb..." skit.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The code is unreadable (formatting) on a phone after 1.5 Manhattans. I presume you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(cocktail) ?
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I typed in a few ARNIE quotes: Terminator: "nothing clean right" - no results "fuck you, asshole" - one result for Terminator, but the phrase occurs twice in the film. Predator: "If it bleeds, we c
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> It is sufficient justification because the item has had significant attention within about the last year. HN_FAQ > If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small nu
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
On the info page: """ <div><span class="highlight">M</span></div> <div><span class="highlight">M</span></div> <div><spam class=&
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I don't understand why people would flag this. It's clearly not spam - do people really think this is not appropriate for hackers? It has been posted before [0], but I don't consider that to be sufficient justification
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> That is, is there some essence of your position which I haven't adequately addressed? If so, what is that essence? That essence is something you and I have in common. I believe this thread sprouted because of how my original com
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Count which one occurs most frequently: people backing away like you've begun frothing at the mouth, people asking if you've ever heard of ANOTHER_TECHNOLOGY (usually Ruby, sometimes Python), and people who assume you'r
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Tokyo used to be called 'Edo'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I'm confused. Maybe you posted the wrong link? No, you're just confused. You mentioned the two statements in that link, but you have only described one. The other statement you referred to is from my original comment.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Both of the statements in that link are just tautologies... I do not understand, and there are four statements, not two. > Right. And I'm saying that, in my experience teaching, it's better to teach CS and then let prog
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> There seems to be a misunderstanding of the word algorithm here. I can assure you there is none , the misunderstanding is with my original comment: 'writing an algorithm'. > You may know non-computer algorithms as &quot
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> But -- to the refutation of your core argument -- it's definitely never insinuated in TG that the ideas don't exist independently of the programming. Such an insinuation, that geometry does not exist independently of a progr
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> My point was that "copy an algorithm into programming language X" isn't something which needs to be taught in the first place, and isn't an economically valuable skill because literally anybody can be taught this s
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Harold Abelson, yeah? I was wondering what an assembly programmer would say to this. > Learning the problem solving skills to create new algorithms is not so trivial, and often can't be self-taught. Getting someone to put themselv
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Is there a particularly pressing reason to teach students who to translate pseudo-code from Wikipedia into <insert favorite language>? Yes, an avl balanced binary search tree can run faster on an artificial computer than on a n
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> That's confusing usage of "write an algorithm". There used to be a distinction between "programming" (creatig program structure; sequence selection iteration and all tha stuff) qnd "coding" (taking t
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> You never followed directions until you learned how to program? Of course I did (sometimes reluctantly). Before I learned programming, I couldn't 'write' an algorithm in a file and get a computer to follow those direct
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I teach introductory programming to college freshmen. We usually spend the first few classes talking about, writing, and refining algorithms in clear and simple English before we even start talking about the programming language they&
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Even today, if you're designing a truly novel algorithm, you're very likely to spend the bulk of your time not coding, and then coding only at the end as a sort of check to make sure you ideas work out. If you cannot code,
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I believe this is based on an old Greek method... #define DECK 11 double z() { const double s=2.0, c=0.1; double arr[DECK], low=1.0, up=s, inc=c; int j, k; for(j=0; j<15; ++j) { for(k=0; k<DECK; ++k) {
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Broad computer-science skills that include technological awareness and analytical thinking are more important than narrow programming skills, Hartovi said. "Learning how to code in any one particular [computer] language is not go
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Revelations 21:8 (King James Version)> But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and bri
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> In 1987 the growing paranoia finally burst out. The trigger was a BBC television series called The Secret Society made by an investigative journalist called Duncan Campbell. In 6 half-hour films Campbell pulled what had been happening
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Sidenote, I'm sometimes a little befuddled that we would be afraid of putting radioactive material in the ground. The ground is already full of the stuff, and we don't spend much time worrying about an earthquake spitting up
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Stack limits are pretty large. It's a natural way to express many problems such as graphs (and their subsets trees). Coincidentally, I had a stack overflow while working on some trees a few months ago, it ate all my ram within a
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> "They filled my Tumblr mailbox with the usual anon posts like, ‘Die, you fucking cunt!’ And, ‘You'll know when I rape your mouth hole, bitch!’ When I turned off anonymous messages, they made new Tumblr accounts and continued
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
How about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Or the fence sitters lean one way or the other depending on their mood/requirements.

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