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Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? Histories of Race and Computation(dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu)
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by ht_th 11y ago
No. Given a formal specification of a problem, one could use this logic to derive a correct program. In theory, that's great because it is proven error-free. In practice, of course, implementing a "correct program" can introd
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by ht_th 11y ago
I'm not sure there are clear lists with "startups", the knowledge of them seems to be embedded in the network surrounding these companies. I did find one site with a bunch of companies on the High Tech Campus (in Eindhoven):
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> According to me, the dutch startup scene is like any other european startup scene. Theres always few success stories and alot of failures. I agree with you. To be honest, the high tech and industrial start ups I know of don't iden
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by ht_th 11y ago
There are two very different "startup scences" in the Netherlands. The social/cultural/financial startups seem to aggregate around Amsterdam. For the more interesting and high tech stuff you have to look at Delft, Twente
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> I guess what I'm saying is that an undergraduate CS degree is just a vocational degree. I think my undergraduate CS degree contained exactly four courses that I would classify as pure vocational in nature: the first class everyone
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by ht_th 11y ago
Certainly, if all you're after is a degree (the certificate), not much effort is needed. On the other hand, if you want to, you can get more out of college. Which brings me back to my "good computer science education": it dep
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by ht_th 11y ago
I agree with you. It might make for an interesting course: the teacher develops instructional materials fitted for the class she's teaching, using Knuth's chapter as a reference and foundation, guiding and challenging students to
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by ht_th 11y ago
Everyone with a good computer science education should be able to digest his books. I know that around here college education is often derided as outdated, impractical, too costly (which is a USA-ian problem), or outright irrelevant, but wh
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by ht_th 11y ago
Thanks for correcting me. Yes, they often tend not to keep right, but, I presume, cycle a "safe" distance from the right hand side of the road. Of course, in doing so, they hinder both cars and cyclists who want to pass.
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by ht_th 11y ago
It's close to the summer holidays, come and spend some time bicycling in the Netherlands, it is a great, safe, and relaxing experience. (Assuming you know how to cycle properly, that is; I've seen foreigners and tourists do very d
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by ht_th 11y ago
I see similar things happen around here (oddly enough often also in small rural schools?). As a pessimist, I wonder: - are teachers able to choose, remix, adapt, or make new "computational" instructional materials like they are ab
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by ht_th 11y ago
I think that Parent made the observation that it is sad that in our information society people (in responsible positions (regarding ICT)) don't know about the fundamentals of the information society. At least, that's what I took f
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by ht_th 11y ago
That's an interesting question, now you've made me think about it. Let me write the same program in ALGOL 60 first, which would have been considered an imperative language and was relatively "close to the metal" to our s
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by ht_th 11y ago
The difference between his two fibonacci implementations is recursiveness, not "fp-ness". You could write fib in a imperative style that is close to the mathematical definition and readable to boot, for example, in ruby: def
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by ht_th 12y ago
Although I do agree that is has become harder to start anew without your past catching up with you, in my experience of growing up in a small community, if you did something bad or just had a bad name, people would learn about it two towns
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by ht_th 12y ago
Having grown up without a television, I never understood this 'convenience' because whenever I watch a video, I cannot do another thing. I never learned to work with a television in the background, and as a result, if I don't
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by ht_th 12y ago
Growing up in the late 20th century, I cannot imagine not having gone to university. Without it, I'd still live in a small village and probably doing some menial work in a factory or on a farm. I would not have had the experience of fo
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by ht_th 12y ago
Actually, I think that once intelligence and beauty can be "fixed", one could argue that the line between being disabled intelligence-wise (or aesthetically-wise) or not starts to shift. All those millions of children who, in your
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by ht_th 12y ago
> I've really been surprised at what an effect its had on me socially. One of the odd things that happened is that I've become more extrovert when I do meet people. To off-set working alone at home, I volunteer two days a week
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by ht_th 12y ago
The problem I have with this question is that it is at the end of the interview. The questions I had, I asked during the interview. The questions I have after reflecting on the interview I can ask the next time (or not, as it often happens)
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by ht_th 12y ago
You might be interested in the 15th episode (of the 4th series) of Person of Interest , "Q & A" (Aired at February 17, 2015), in which depressed and addicted people were targeted with special adds to drive profit up. I won&#x
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by ht_th 12y ago
True. Although the more popular/populous museums tend to offer models you can interact with, whereas the smaller ones more often offer the real thing. If you're ever offered to visit the archives/warehouse of a museum, accept
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by ht_th 12y ago
I've been to a couple of these museums as well. What makes them fun to go to are: - you may touch everything, often including things inside the computers itself - the people working there (or, as is often the case, the one guy working
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by ht_th 12y ago
I was more thinking about something like LyX and hide the typesetting engine / markup language for a while. Although when children have experience with an editor like this, supporting them to learn something like HTML (of LaTeX) is pro
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by ht_th 12y ago
Your example of MS Word is interesting. Not only are these "playable" features distracting, they don't help with learning to write non-trivial texts either. I'd like to see them use a simple semantical text editor where
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by ht_th 12y ago
Yes, I come here to read up on programming, ICT, and the information society, but one of the things I like most about aggregation-type sites like hackernews, reddit, and slashdot is to be surprised about intriguing thing I had no idea exist
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by ht_th 12y ago
I almost always use the cards from either http://svg-cards.sourceforge.net/ or https://code.google.com/p/vectorized-playing-cards/; both are open source.
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The terms cathedral/bazaar do have meaning in the community beyond the specific definition in that book. Worse, without some historical hesitation, using that specific definition now, 14 years later, is to ignore the influence of that
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I like to generate my presentations with the LaTeX package "beamer", offering well-typeset symbols, text, and figures (through Tikz) that all fit together nicely. It might not be flashy of hipster-y, but it certainly is different

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