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by biotech 17y ago
While true, GO is not unique in this respect: - C was noticed due to Bell Labs - C# was noticed due to Microsoft - Java was noticed due to Sun - etc
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by biotech 17y ago
This article is about Linux vs. Mac for coding, not Linux vs. Windows.
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by biotech 17y ago
I disagree. Evolution designed all life forms. Design and implementation are not separate for evolution, but that doesn't mean that design did not occur. Humans did not do (Edit: ..most of) the designing, but that also does not mean that de
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Feynman Report on Challenger Disaster(ralentz.com)
2 points by biotech 17y ago|0 comments
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by biotech 17y ago
I run screaming from courses that cover mathematical background I don't have I had the opposite attitude when it came prerequisites in college. For example, I had no problem taking a course that required linear algebra, or signal analysis
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by biotech 17y ago
Good webpage, I like that it isn't shy about getting right into simple examples of source code. More language websites should be outlined like this.
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by biotech 17y ago
Sounds pretty similar to the Milgram Experiment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment ).
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Scientific vs. "Regular" Programming(hmmm-mhinsch.blogspot.com)
2 points by biotech 17y ago|0 comments
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by biotech 17y ago
it always ended up with a few people doing most of the work... This is a common problem with group projects in school. One of the main problems is lack of leadership. The solution: assign a leader. I had a class consisting of 4 projects,
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by biotech 17y ago
I feel bad saying this, but also try learning Visual Basic for Applications with Excel. This is actually a great suggestion for anyone who works with Excel a lot. Knowing VBA (VB for Apps) can save you (or your assistant) hours of repetit
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by biotech 17y ago
For someone the good parts of C++ are exceptions and RAII. For another it’s templates and STL containers. Each one is picking his own subset, and no one seems to agree whose subset is better/safer/more comprehensible. It would be nice to
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by biotech 17y ago
If you look at google's coding standards you can see the restrictions that they put into place. Keep in mind, though, that reasons for many of those restrictions have to do with maintaining compatibility. This may not be as much of an iss
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by biotech 17y ago
the software vendor is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Not true - the biggest problem with Microsoft's add on was the lack of an easy method of uninstalling it. All I ask is that vendors do two things when installing add-ons t
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by biotech 17y ago
Good idea. By the responses, it looks like there are several Chicago HN'ers!
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by biotech 17y ago
I should hope so! The portability of a software project like Git is [practically] upper-bound by the tools used to build it.
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by biotech 17y ago
Maybe a course like "Computer Architecture" would be what you're looking for. At U of Illinois, they start with logic gates and go from there.
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by biotech 17y ago
points for having sample code obviously placed! Cheers to that! Every programming language home page should have a quick way of getting to simple sample code. Erlang does a decent job of this: "Getting Started" -> "Getting started qui
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by biotech 17y ago
When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. I agree in theory; that many tabs are pretty difficult to manage. Unfortunately, a garbage collection cycle forces me to focus on garbage co
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by biotech 17y ago
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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by biotech 17y ago
You make two good points: 1. Yes, I would like to know the editors of each article. 2. " The chief-of-staff probably assigned that story over the alternatives, which would have been biased (because she's human too) - so do you want her name
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by biotech 17y ago
This is a great summary of the problems that I have with newspaper articles. I've had a problem with the way news was reported ever since I learned to do real research. usually, my argument revolves around two points: - Lack of Context; thi
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by biotech 17y ago
This product is called "Uranium Ore"... There is an interesting/funny comment, though. Kyle J. Von Bose says: I bought this to power a home-made submarine that I use to look for prehistoric-era life forms in land-locked lakes around my hom
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by biotech 17y ago
And this is where religion gets it all wrong, the claim that all that was made just for us.... Are you thinking about some particular religion, or religion in general?
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by biotech 17y ago
A woman can only bear a single man's child in a 9 month period. A woman with a large number of male suiters is theorectially less appealing, since the chance of successful mating (where successful -> results in offspring in the near f
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by biotech 17y ago
we don't have more to show from a decade's work by so many brilliant people. Well said. I use C++ and Perl primarily, and both languages suffer from this.
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by biotech 17y ago
In fact, I think you can tell a competent software developer from an incompetent one with a single interview question: What's the worst code you've seen recently? If their answer isn't immediately and without any hesitation these two words
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by biotech 17y ago
It's thermodynamics: Calories In = Calories Excreted + Calories Burned + Calories Stored so: Change in Calories Stored = Calories In - (Calories Excreted + Calories Burned) As someone else said, though: these variables are not independent.
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by biotech 17y ago
"But why is vi brought up whenever Emacs is discussed?" Because emacs users and vim users are disjoint, despite having almost everything else in common!
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by biotech 17y ago
"Generally speaking, I am not a fan of the meta." Ironic that he should say this, considering that a considerable portion of his communications relate to meta-discussions.
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by biotech 17y ago
Maybe those people should buy oil futures, or stock in energy companies then. That way, when oil prices rise, they can cash in on their investment and cancel out the higher gas prices. If they have some financial leeway, they don't have to

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