kbolino

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1411.
by kbolino 15y ago
Debatable. On the one hand, the farther the projectile is from the planet, the less it needs to be deflected. On the other hand, you have to expend energy to get to the damn thing in the first place. I suppose the survival of your species
1412.
by kbolino 15y ago
AFAIK, heap and stack are still in the same "area of memory;" the discipline of separating the two is still enforced (or not) by the operating system. The heap-grows-up, stack-grows-down convention is still common on (32-bit, maybe 64-bit?
1413.
by kbolino 15y ago
This is what has always struck me as unfair and somewhat crude about a flat tax as well. A flat tax is only "fair" if you assume that everyone allocates their funds in relatively congruent proportions, e.g. that everyone spends about 10% o
1414.
by kbolino 15y ago
> Why would you care so much when it's happening to you, but you readily block other countries without batting an eyelid? Who is doing the caring and who is doing the blocking? When you understand that the two are not the same group, y
1415.
by kbolino 15y ago
I think you are obsessing about minutiae. Perhaps mathematical instruction is very different in Germany than in the United States, or perhaps our brains are simply incompatible, but I've never found symbology to significantly affect my und
1416.
by kbolino 15y ago
If all you want to do is program, then you don't need a Computer Science degree; in fact, you don't need a degree at all. A reasonably intelligent person can read all the free tutorials on the web and develop a decent sense for programming