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by jgg 16y ago
(Note that this response isn't an attack on you specifically, it's just my feelings towards this argument in general) Where is the magical divide between "art" and "science" in the field? Do the adherents of either side even know what they'
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by jgg 16y ago
Reading (of course), Go, cycling, recreational math.
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by jgg 16y ago
That was one section where I felt that the divide was somewhat odd. Also, the part where he says (referring to the managers) ...and wants to connect with society and contribute. really threw me off.
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by jgg 16y ago
Hmm, even Digg wasn't too keen on your asshole comments, what made you think Hacker News would tolerate you? For someone who's so concerned with productivity, you sure seem to have a lot of time to waste telling other people what they shoul
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by jgg 16y ago
It's so evil that I'm wondering why nobody has done it yet.
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So You've Hired a Hacker(jonathanscorner.com)
34 points by jgg 16y ago|21 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
>All that to say schools that teach both do exists. I'm not sure what you're trying to rebuke here. Did I say they didn't?
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by jgg 16y ago
>Agreed for most schools but I will say that there are good schools that still teach at that level. The Intro to Programming Languages class at Northwestern has you implement an interpreter for a variety of different languages, includin
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by jgg 16y ago
Ah. My bad. (-:
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by jgg 16y ago
I think the implication that was people who program in just PHP are bad.
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by jgg 16y ago
It's funny, because the situation we're in right now (at least in the US) does neither really well. On the one hand, hardcore theoretical courses at the average CS school don't exist as weed-out at all. If you're lucky, you've got a good fa
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by jgg 16y ago
Something like AbeBooks, combined with an e-mail to the professor asking if an older edition is okay (provided they didn't help write the newest edition of the book (-:) will usually suffice. First semester, I spent ~$600 on a book order at
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by jgg 16y ago
It appears that I missed that one.
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by jgg 16y ago
>It was a badly played joke. Ah, apologies then. I vaguely understood what the humor was there, but I wasn't sure if that's what you were going for. (-:
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by jgg 16y ago
That is awesome. If it hasn't been posted already, please submit that as a top-level link!
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Refactoring Haskell code?(blog.ezyang.com)
1 points by jgg 16y ago|0 comments
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by jgg 16y ago
Are you...joking? Or am I supposed to be taking that explanation as your reasoning behind why that's a lambda? I'm hoping for the former.
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by jgg 16y ago
If the usocket library suddenly disappeared, along with all the current Lisp implementations, there would be no guarantee that someone making a new CL implementation had to implement the library in a way similar to usocket, or even implemen
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by jgg 16y ago
Common Lisp has no standard way of doing Network I/O. usocket is one of several available socket libraries which don't exist in the ANSI spec.
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by jgg 16y ago
>Not going to be a popular move for EA but it's a smart business move. If I'm misreading your post, I apologize, but how is something that pisses off current and potential customers a 'smart business move'?
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by jgg 16y ago
This is why I love Haskell. Dealing with the type system and purely functional style forces you to think about the problem at hand before you do anything.
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by jgg 16y ago
If I had known that, I would have actually tried in highschool.
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by jgg 16y ago
>I had a 4.7 GPA in high school. Funny story: my school wouldn't allow you to score over a 4.0 on anything. This meant that if, for example, you blew off a stupid humanities class and got a 'B', you could never have a 4.0. This is great
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by jgg 16y ago
That's what they told me too. It depends on the college. I would imagine that Stanford would be a bit better quality than my school.
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by jgg 16y ago
I know it sounds corny, but it does feel good to hear someone say that. (-:
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by jgg 16y ago
>I might be considered a huge failure because I've devoted myself to raising my son (and learning lots of interesting things along the way) rather than to a technical career. The system in place would consider you a failure because you
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by jgg 16y ago
Short answer: money. Long answer: I had an ACT in the 30s and a GPA of 3.9 upon graduation from highschool, and I took a few AP courses (my school only offered 3, and in addition I took AP Physics over the internet (terrible idea)), got a 5
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by jgg 16y ago
It depends on the classes, actually. They do "clepping out" on a per-professor basis. But trust me, I'm looking into that. EDIT: I even sat in on an upper-level programming languages course, and the most advanced thing you learned (from wha
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by jgg 16y ago
I hate "me too" posts, but when I saw what you wrote I really did want to give you more than one "upvote". I'm a mathematics (and computer science) major at a large, middle of the road university and I can say my experience has been exactly
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by jgg 16y ago
I hate to say it, but after spending some time at an average college that I got a scholarship to, it became rather apparent that a lot of the regular people who go to college do so because they don't know any better. That's why things like

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