Rerarom

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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   The third edition is the best
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   How are you not envious of her? I'm asking seriously.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   He's from Romania, where people don't usually afford vacations abroad, and when they do, Greece is the canonical choice. Also, a lot of people's existences there revolve around car ownership. In addition, IT people have relat
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Reminds me of Paul Cohen working on the Riemann hypothesis.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   We hear this all the time today -- social skills are underrated, technical prowess isn't everything etc. I agree but on the other hand, if a person likes algorithmic stuff and can't bring themselves to develop their soft skills no
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   I guess Harry Potter was a non-STEM breakthrough.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Thanks!
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Petzold is focused on GUI stuff, neglecting other aspects of the API.
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   by Rerarom 7y ago

   Also, there aren't many books about those (compared to e.g. books about the *nix API). I only know of Hart's Windows System Programming.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    A PhD is like a vocational arts school for being a professor/researcher. The fact that you can do something else with it is a bonus, not a purpose.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    My database professor in university always used to say "the FROM, not the SELECT, is the most important".
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I used mbasic at some point (and had the normal one blocked), and then I just unfollowed everyone. I now just check someone's profile when I remember that they exist - once a month or even less often.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    And the right way of reading Harry Potter, I presume, is with two-year intervals between books, as God and Rowling intended.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Yup, I've noticed that too. Even worse, some younger people would consider it to be a tremendous burden to write their own HTML/CSS/JS.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    What if you don't have any itch? Seriously.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    At least in academia the tradition is still going strong.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Not being in our Solar System, I guess.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Because they considered the sphere as embedded in 3D space.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Okay, I'm sorry. I just wanted to mark the page somehow.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    That sounds like something one would have read in a computer magazine from the early 2000s...
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    .
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Or a Calmira.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Am I the only one who finds 1-3 to be utterly boring and 4-6 to be absolutely brilliant? (4 is my favourite.)
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Come on, you're sucking all the fun out of it. Also, 2013.
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    (2007)
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    Apple to stop storing Siri audio after contractors heard private talks and sex(arstechnica.com)

    1 points by Rerarom 7y ago|0 comments
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    If one has their own ISP, can they pirate stuff without being caught?
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    Programming is not by itself an art, so it doesn't fulfill people's self-expression needs (although it may contain bits of art like e.g. video games). You cannot create "almost anything" with coding, it's not like I
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate...
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    by Rerarom 7y ago

    I read both GEB and TRTR, and I haven't read any of the books on Kay's list ;)