dhconnelly

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by dhconnelly 15y ago
different tools for different jobs
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
Cool. I wasn't sure if it was common knowledge that Ken Thompson and Rob Pike created Go. The Go compiler toolchain is from Plan 9, too: http://golang.org/cmd/ .
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Rand Paul promises to filibuster PIPA(paul.senate.gov)
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
Thank you for finding this.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
According to Alexa, Yahoo! is the #4 site on the internet, and Windows Live is the #7 site. So the millions of people who have Yahoo! and Windows Live for their homepages (and this is very common--remember that IE is still the dominant brow
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
Maybe the university you're talking about is different from the one I attended, but the only CS courses I took that involved proofs were algorithms and computabity theory. Compilers, operating systems, computer networking, data structures,
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Peter Kasting's follow-up to his "Making the web awesome" post(plus.google.com)
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
I guess I don't get the $30 :) Just kidding.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
See his comment on my comment. He was referring to the Dart VM, which he thought didn't yet exist. And LLVM certainly exists already.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
"it is designed and explicitly documented to run on an as-yet nonexistent virtual machine" http://code.google.com/p/dart/wiki/Building#Building_the_sta...
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
Not related to this, but I saw your username and immediately recognized its origin. I'm gth836e.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
I think it depends on who you are and where you're looking. Aspiring Ruby programmers, who are usually web developers, go looking for these hip resources like codecademy and screencasts and whimsical online books. Aspiring Python programmer
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
this, with the associative law
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
I very much doubt that most college students today, even in technical majors, could work out the geometry proofs. I was a calculus TA for two years in college (at an engineering school), and students don't know geometry anymore. Nor can the
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
That isn't true. Only the history/geography was recall. Latin translation and geometric proofs aren't regurgitation.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
Looks totally awesome. Not related to the product: I think different testimonials would sell this better. You guys aren't (or shouldn't be) competing with universities, which have a completely different mission.
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by dhconnelly 15y ago
This is a good article and reflects my experiences reading the mailing lists and watching TGIFs as a Google intern.