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by dill_day 18y ago
"They'll grow up," says 1983 graduate David Epstein. "They'll have a broader worldview and they'll understand that there are many, many ways to contribute. You know what they say — the freshman bring so much, and the seniors take away so li
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by dill_day 18y ago
I am interested to see how much we differ from the average population. The average #s appear in parenthesis after the choices, and were copied from http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/stats.htm
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by dill_day 18y ago
"...ugly is when a program displays "1 files deleted" (or even "1 file(s) deleted")..." This bugs me sometimes also... or when a timer is counting down - I know it's small but it just seems lazy to leave off the half-line or whatever it tak
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by dill_day 18y ago
In high school I started doing something that has worked really well for me and helped me to create good habits for college and work in general. What I would do is keep a notebook by the side of my bed. Every night I would think of ~5 thin
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by dill_day 18y ago
I definitely agree with this -- although maybe not that you have to start at the beginning. I started with lots of python/Java, but then dropped down to where I had been staring at enough assembly that moving back up to C was a huge reli
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by dill_day 18y ago
My professor just offered us this piece of advice as we prepare for the final: When in doubt, put down the right answer.
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by dill_day 19y ago
I'm also a college student and I think I agree with what you're saying for the most part... but at least for the high school I went to this article wouldn't be an exaggeration. In high school, one of my classmates couldn't tell the teacher
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by dill_day 19y ago
Hofstadter hit on this almost 30 years ago I think... I thought his dialogs with the ant eater were really entertaining and thought provoking as well.
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by dill_day 19y ago
I started programming in Java almost 2 years ago, so I'm still very new to everything. I hardly ever write anything in Java now though, I have to use C and C++ in school, but for a quick project my first choice is usually Python, and latel
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by dill_day 19y ago
I don't know if this has already been posted, I skimmed the comments and didn't immediately see it though: Programming Language Pragmatics http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Pragmatics-Second... I own this in addition to the Drago