TheRealDevonMcC

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by TheRealDevonMcC 3y ago
I found the pictures in this article to be confusing - are they showing two shots of the same place or two shots of contiguous areas?
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by TheRealDevonMcC 5y ago
As a 61-year-old with almost 50 years of programming experience who recently got a new job, I can testify how almost no one wants to hear from an old person. I program for fun, too, and could be doing that full-time if I weren't worki
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by TheRealDevonMcC 5y ago
APL by Ken Iverson, as well as its descendants.
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by TheRealDevonMcC 5y ago
I read a review of the book "Becoming Trader Joe" by Joe Coulombe who founded the Trader Joe's supermarket chain. One of the very smart things he did was understand how expensive turnover is, so he oriented the company aroun
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by TheRealDevonMcC 5y ago
Maybe it's because you cannot separate things that neatly. I see people here complaining that it's not all about tech but what is tech without the world that we live in and our effect on that world? Without context, tech alone is
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by TheRealDevonMcC 5y ago
Considering how diverse California's demographic composition is, as opposed to say, Vermont, they deserve credit for doing better than the country as a whole.
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by TheRealDevonMcC 6y ago
A programmer, an engineer, and a physicist are in adjacent hotel rooms. Each has a pitcher of water beside the bed. A fire starts in the wastepaper basket in each room. The physicist wakes up, sees the fire, estimates exactly how much wat
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by TheRealDevonMcC 7y ago
More idiomatic J might look like this: +/a#~a>3 .
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by TheRealDevonMcC 7y ago
The preceding discussion is a good example of "whoosh!" because it fails to understand that APL is an array language. It eschews scalar representation like "A1 x1 + A2 x2 ...". In APL, you would write this as something
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by TheRealDevonMcC 7y ago
It's also likely that his usage preceded the more common one prevalent now.