drbawb

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by drbawb 14y ago
Herein lies the rub, though. We have to choose what we want to teach our kids. That's how the current system is established anyways. The current system does not let you "learn what you want to." It teaches you an established core curriculum
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by drbawb 14y ago
Very well said. My understanding of computers came far before my understanding of code. I think people are falsely equating all the marks of a good programmer as being the benefits to learning how to program. "It makes you logical, method
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by drbawb 14y ago
I feel that you're mostly right. However I think we all focus on different details, to an extent. For example, I'm a great typist so the underscore key has never really bothered me. But to call the author out on being detail oriented would
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by drbawb 14y ago
I don't understand why people wouldn't be obsessed with typing efficiency. Granted you don't need to type all that fast for programming. However I do have to type full-speed when writing documentation, composing an e-mail, working on a pr
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by drbawb 14y ago
This would drive me bonkers. For some reason I've never been able to hit the spacebar on the left side. (I mean, it's not like I'm physically incapable. I just instinctively hit SPACE with my right thumb.) Getting used to using my left thum
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by drbawb 14y ago
"the stretch"? Properly typing an underscore should utilize two hands and shouldn't require a stretch at all.
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by drbawb 14y ago
Well, the author himself is pretty ambiguous. While most of the article talks about code, the author mentions underscores being ambiguous in the context of underlined fonts. (I don't even think my text editor [for code] supports underlined
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by drbawb 15y ago
When I see someone in a hurry I usually give them the same kind of pass. Really, we've all been there. In an absolute hurry. I don't necessarily imagine them in a scenario where the hurried pace is necessary ; I just know that in the momen
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by drbawb 15y ago
Same here. Also obligatory #golang so people can search for it on the page! (Had to sift through every "x hours a<go> to find this thread.)
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by drbawb 15y ago
I would think it would have to be "authorized access" according to the scope of the FB ToS. Which makes a fair bit of sense, because having an app do it would go through FBs own privacy control schemes. So I guess we also have to make sur
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by drbawb 15y ago
More importantly imagine how many people this could help! There's a bit of ethics involved, but what if we could simply remove traumatic memories to treat psychological disorders? Plus, yeah, plugging in to learn karate would be pretty aw
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by drbawb 15y ago
He might be talking about the N64 (which IIRC most games used the set of 32-bit instructions because they were faster and "accurate enough" at the time. - Not sure, though.)
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by drbawb 15y ago
I'm always surprised by how effective #2 can be. I had a particularly rough Friday last week and so I decided to skip coming home in favor of a long bike ride. I was fully expecting to go home, mope around, and fall asleep. Instead I came h
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by drbawb 15y ago
As an aside: watching Pike's talk on lexing and parsing in Go really hits this point home. It shows how language support for cheap threads (goroutines) and channels really change the way you come up with an algorithm. http://www.youtube.co
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by drbawb 15y ago
I've never really had a big issue with this. I have no issue keeping my thumb on the spacebar while holding left shift, and in addition I've grown to rather like the syntax. In the long run I'd say multiple assignment probably saves you mor
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by drbawb 15y ago
I need to check the license again. (Haven't read it in a long time.) The thing is: you don't really own any game. Yes you own the manuals and the case and the physical media, but it's still licensed to you. Just like a Steam game is. The on
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by drbawb 15y ago
When people have a view of software development like this I usually retort by pulling up the Wikipedia page of a modern processor. For instance right now I'd probably pull up the page for the Intel Core i7 and show them the transistor count
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by drbawb 15y ago
I like this analogy as well as the analogy you replied to simply because they relay the massive velocity of change we have to face.
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by drbawb 15y ago
This is very true. Explaining systems of reasonably small scale seems hopeless to non-developers sometimes. However I think this is true of a lot of fields... some people just can't grok (and don't need to grok) how an automatic transmiss
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by drbawb 15y ago
This seems like an excellent technique. Although I think it'd be much harder today. In my childhood I'd be easily entertained by a text adventure or a pretty simple sprite based game. Now a days your kid would have to create the next Call
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by drbawb 15y ago
There's a difference between forcing them to write code, and making the learning materials they need to write code readily available. It's very possible that I may not be a programmer today if my best friend's dad hadn't pulled out an old A
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by drbawb 15y ago
I try to get exactly 8 hours. Most nights I've only been managing 6 and it's really starting to show. Work itself isn't tough for me... what's hard is working all day, and then only having a few hours to catch up with friends in the evening
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by drbawb 15y ago
I own a minivan that's dusty/muddy/salty. I would definitely be very happy if I walked outside and found that my van was cleaned up, even without my knowledge. The whole "leave your car unlocked so we can clean the interior" thing scares me