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by cicero 12y ago
I first learned Ada in a university programming languages class in 1984. It was chosen by our professor as the culmination of classic programming language ideas. We did not have access to a full Ada compiler, but we used "Janus Ada&quo
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by cicero 12y ago
We can't prove that other humans experience emotions; each individual only knows what he or she experiences. It's possible that everyone else is a sophisticated simulation.
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by cicero 12y ago
I don't think it is pointless to consider the possibility that infinite progress is not inevitable. You may have faith that science and technology will always come through, but I don't. This blind faith that things will always get
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by cicero 13y ago
I don't see anything shameful about using old software if it works well and suits your needs. Yes, new editors like SublimeText have advantages, and if you prefer them over Vim, use them. However, I've seen many projects undergo a
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by cicero 13y ago
We already see the "intense, relatively widespread, sudden, superficial interest in bitcoin", so what remains to be seen is if it "will eventually be followed by a sudden loss of interest in bitcoin." Since we already ha
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by cicero 13y ago
I prefer that there be competition between a variety choices for OS and platforms. I don't wish for any of them to go away.
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by cicero 13y ago
Very interesting. That's what we're also doing to human populations.
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by cicero 14y ago
Actually, Bill Atkinson saw the PARC demo along with Jobs, and he thought Xerox had come up with an efficient implementation for overlapping regions. This inspired him to work on his own implementation for a problem he previously had cons
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by cicero 14y ago
Clojure has some nice syntax and conventions for dealing with sequences, vectors, maps, and sets, such that it encourages working with those data structures until performance requires something more specialized. It also has some very well t
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by cicero 14y ago
Very nice screen. I have an iPhone 4S, but I'm thinking of switching to a Nexus 4. I'm glad to see that it doesn't have to be ugly.
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by cicero 14y ago
It looks like their trying to ride on the coat-tails of the success of Windows 8.
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by cicero 14y ago
12 can be evenly divided into thirds and quarters, but 10 cannot. It is more likely that something will need to be divided 2 or 3 ways than 5 ways.
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by cicero 14y ago
"I haven’t seen any commercial products that put together all these different things" (emphasis mine). There appears to be more to Cerego than simple spaced repetition, but I can't tell exactly what right now because it is in limited bet
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Finally, Education Technology based on real research(anniemurphypaul.com)
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by cicero 14y ago
I agree that 4clojure.com seems an easier way to get started. However, if you're already setup with Clojure on your machine, using clojurekoans.com has the advantage of allowing you to work in your editor of choice.
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by cicero 14y ago
There's more to conj. It does a cons for lists, but works differently for other types of collections. You might find it helpful to lookup things in ClojureDocs. http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/conj
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by cicero 14y ago
I liked Hale-Bopp. I wasn't expecting much after the disappointment of Kohoutek when I was a little kid, but then one evening I looked up and there it was, and it was pretty cool. Hale-Bopp was subtle; you could miss it if you weren't looki
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by cicero 14y ago
Actually, now is the perfect time to rationally come up with some sound principles before the hormone storm hits. Hormones are not a good basis for decisions that affect the course of peoples' lives.
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by cicero 14y ago
It's called "the rule of law". It's a concept that came as a reaction against a ruler make decisions based on his own opinion of what is right and wrong. Yes, there is a place for a discussion of ethics outside of the current legal framewor
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by cicero 14y ago
I don't see how philosophy, as a field of study, could be wrong . Even if every philosopher who ever lived was wrong, we still need to do something like philosophy to address questions like the one you just raised. Philosophy is not a sing
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by cicero 14y ago
The OP clearly has skills in page-layout as well as music, but maybe not software development. Some musician/programmer combination (maybe yourself?) is needed to produce what you describe.
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by cicero 14y ago
That's awesome! I wish you had been my music teacher when I was that age. Keep it up; you are giving a valuable gift to those children.
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by cicero 14y ago
After being a programmer for 20 years, I never thought of it that way. I think it is one of the better jobs out there, and I've always considered myself fortunate to be able to make a living that way. I will say, however, that spending the
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by cicero 14y ago
I had to quit climbing for my life insurance policy.
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by cicero 14y ago
You can build software as reliable as a car, but that's not the issue. You cannot build software with all of the features desired by management in the time allotted and also make it robust. It's a matter of priorities, and robustness is not
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by cicero 15y ago
I use Windows at work, and OSX at home.
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by cicero 15y ago
I started with Integer BASIC on an Apple II the summer of 1978. I went on to Applesoft BASIC, and then Apple Pascal. When I went to Texas A&M in 1981, I started in Electrical Engineering, and took courses in FORTRAN and IBM 360/370 Asse
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by cicero 15y ago
I heard about Objective-C before C++. The big complaint I remember about Objective-C was that it had a very different syntax for the O-O parts. When C++ came along, it was seen as having O-O more integrated into the C language. Also, I thin
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by cicero 15y ago
If you are so good you can achieve greatness by yourself, as a lone individual isolated from others, and that is what you really want to do, then knock yourself out. That is the American individualistic dream after all. However, if you ar
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by cicero 15y ago
Yes, Apple products are not hand-crafted by gnomes, but they do represent a set of priorities that are rare in the world of manufacturing. I think it is more than a marketing gimmick; there is truly a desire to produce a quality product rat

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