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by gms7777 14y ago
Don't confuse recyclable with reusable. I think your mental timescale here is a bit too small. "Built to last" means what? 10 years, optimistically. That means that in 10 years, those products will still be sitting in a landfill...for hundr
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> except all those written before it? Out of curiosity, what do you use? My history is not too great, but I can't think of many languages that came before C that are still in use today. I actually use fortran at work (along with C), and
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I feel like it's intended to be more the information that you look up throughout the day, just all combined in one location. I mean, I get up in the morning, I check the weather, I check the traffic, etc. If the problem is about how much da
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To what extent do you think its possible to change behaviors like this? That is to say, to what extent do you believe people's reaction to this sort of stuff are innate human behaviors and reactions, and how much is learned through interact
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I think its pretty arbitrary to claim that "changing these behaviors" would "make the web a better place". I think if people think and react in a certain way, there is nothing wrong with that, and web design should evolve around how people
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by gms7777 14y ago
From a comment on the page, if anyone missed it: "This story is true, and the conclusion too, except that it was Von Neumann, not Turing, deriding such a tool as a waste of computer time for clerical work. Turing, in stark contrast to Von N
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by gms7777 14y ago
That may very well have been where I saw it. Thank you.
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Wow, at all? That's surprising. Certainly there are more males in tech, but that's still unusual. If you don't mind me asking, what region are you from? Sadly, even as a woman, I myself am often guilty of assuming other programmers are men,
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I understand that its easy and important to pour resources into educating the already motivated. The justification is clear, they want to be there, they want to learn, they "deserve it". Yet, unless I'm misreading your comment, it appears a
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Apologies if the wording wasn't clear in the original comment. The students who applied for the program performed about the same, regardless of whether they went to the "good" schools or the "bad" ones. I'm not arguing that an environment w
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I remember reading an article at one point about a study done on high school students. I can't remember exact details, but there was a program where students in areas with bad high schools could apply to be sent to better high schools. If I
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In general, yes. I was more involved in computational biochem and high performance computing which isn't as much. I agree with you that its about confidence. If you were probably never discouraged by anyone about computing and tech because
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The key with finding a role model that inspires you is often times finding someone you can relate to. I don't think its an exaggeration that in the STEM fields, its much easier to find examples of male role models than female ones. Which is
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Twitter is down? Now where am I supposed to complain about twitter being down?
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I can't find the article but I remember reading at some point about how difficulty of work relates to one's ability to get in the zone. To achieve some level of flow, the work you are doing must be difficult enough to provide some sort of c
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Doesn't the chair roll?
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Perhaps the accurate title is "Assumptions programmers make about time"
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Donate your old computers/parts that you don't need to help others(computerswithcauses.org)
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On a related topic: (US only) This won't be specific for programming, but there is a great program called Computers with Causes, that takes donations of used (functional or nonfunctional) computers and computer equipment. The program refurb
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It seems as though the problem with determinism could be solved with random number seeding. If the server generates seeds, the two could stay synced even with random numbers. The physics engine is a bit more difficult hurdle I suppose.
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I don't think its intended to teach algebra independently. The article addresses the roles of teachers in potentially using this in classes, to "teach the whys of algebra". And this applies to both the whys of the rules, and the possible re
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While I do think the phenomena is really cool, the article states how it may be used to forewarn of earthquakes and bridge collapses. I'm curious how much benefit could be gained from knowing of an earthquake a few seconds in advance?
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This was my first thought as well. Especially since most standardized tests do not include "trick questions" of these sorts (or if they do, they are often painfully obvious), the more "intelligent" are just answering questions quickly think
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This may be nit-picking but in their diagram the color chart, portrayed visually as a venn-diagram, is rather misleading. It seems to imply that if you have colitis and worms, you have colorectal cancer. And if you have everything, you're A
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by gms7777 14y ago
This may be just speaking from my own experience, but I think a lot of women do appreciate the uniformity in men's clothing. And frankly, are jealous as hell. Its much more difficult, IMO, to be a woman and dress simply and look consistentl
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I have to say, my first thought was "Cute, but dumb. It just makes the content inaccessible". But upon consideration, here I am in the United States, reading about some (small?) newspaper in Switzerland. They certainly got the publicity the
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On this same topic, Mike Peters, pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, gave a brilliant commencement speech at Washington University in St. Louis this May. I admit though, I consider myself one of the lucky few (and probably stand amongst many
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There are thoughts that are relegated to philosophy. An important field certainly, but one distinctly separate from modern science, which is concerned primarily with the observable. Is it possible that we are living within a simulated unive
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Especially when you consider that both are, in fact, "wrong". In a two-body system, they both revolve around around the center of mass. (Though truly our solar system is far beyond a two-body system).
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I agree. Using this tool alone won't make you effective at using the shortcuts. I think it is a good first step though ,for people like me, who use VIM on a regular basis with a fairly limited vocabulary of shortcuts. To actively learn new

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