bbeonx

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by bbeonx 8y ago
I dunno, to me the whole 'abc coders are xyz' is a heuristic. I value curiosity and I find that devs that are solid at a wide variety of paradigms often get there through curiosity. So if someone tells me they are learning Clojure
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Yeah, come on man. Did you even read the guidelines? :)
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Very true. I just started playing basketball for the first time in over 20 years. I'm 31 and pretty overweight (300+ at 5"11') and I've been playing for three weeks. After the first week I got my ass kicked by my in-shap
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by bbeonx 8y ago
This is, of course, the only logical conclusion
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by bbeonx 8y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. The example was illustrative. In general, when you see an example that explains a complex issue you should assume that it is significantly simplified and therefore will not be realistic.
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Ha! That definitely took me a second...
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by bbeonx 8y ago
IQ is a meaningless measurement in this case.
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Yeah, it's not like people suddenly changed thirty years ago... It just doesn't make sense to work those jobs.
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Yeah, and just use lots of characters. And at least one use of the shift key :)
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by bbeonx 8y ago
I'm guessing this was a while ago when screens were still glass bubbles
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by bbeonx 8y ago
One issue I have with ad hoc naming convention is that while they may make the first month of learning nice and easy they usually don't have the nice synthesizing effect where all of your notations come together beautifully. Math is te
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Right. If one interpretation is wildly wrong and there is another blindingly obvious interpretation that is correct and relevant... Why would we ever give someone the benefit of the doubt?
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by bbeonx 8y ago
The world operates on value judgements with scant information. I'm not sure why this is being dismissed as inferior.
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by bbeonx 8y ago
You need grad students to write papers for you...
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Symptoms of addiction vary. Food addiction is real.
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by bbeonx 8y ago
The dude/dudette figured it out on their own which is what math is actually about. Who cares if it's well known? Knowing a fact because you learned it in a class is cool and all but it's not the only way to acquire knowledge,
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Right. There are a lot of comments along the lines of "Duhhh, that's the point of calculus" here. But you know what? Screw that. People learn when people learn, and discovering it for yourself is a lot cooler than someone tel
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by bbeonx 8y ago
I dunno, this _is_ the internet...
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by bbeonx 8y ago
What's up with the binary representation of 11?
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by bbeonx 8y ago
This must be related to the Cox-Zucker machine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Oh, I don't know. There is also the very real possibility that it will seem hopelessly obtuse to the student who will never approach it again. IMO, a poor introduction to a subject is worse than neutral. And maybe that's okay, too
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by bbeonx 8y ago
To be honest, this project is going the wrong direction. Rather than trying to get programming languages to look like human language, we need to get human language closer to computer language. By this I mean that every argument I've ev
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by bbeonx 8y ago
Same. I guess my takeaway is that I'm happy people are looking into this because in ten (or twenty (or a hundred)) years this research will hopefully have paid off. I, however, want nothing to do with it. Also, they don't do natur
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by bbeonx 8y ago
CTRL-ALT-T $ killall vim