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1. 781.▲
   by kd0amg 16y ago

   I had a copy too. I remember having to tweak the code a bit to get it to work on whatever dialect of BASIC I was using at the time, but it seemed a fairly straightforward conversion. I was most fascinated by the hexapawn program. When I fir
2. 782.▲
   by kd0amg 16y ago

   Gödel, Escher, Bach Types and Programming Languages 6 dozen students' homework Probably going to start Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said sometime soon (or some other novel... I can't currently remember what I have waiting on my shelf).
3. 783.▲
   by kd0amg 16y ago

   I shifted pretty gradually (from elementary school to high school) from being mostly interested in biology to mostly interested in coding (and later to math and computer science). I don't think I really thought of software as a career until
4. 784.▲
   by kd0amg 16y ago

   Each hash function indicates a bit to set. If you have an array of 2^n bits, then the hash function must return an n-bit number.
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   by kd0amg 16y ago

   I guess this goes up there with Be's is_computer_on_fire() http://www.tycomsystems.com/beos/BeBook/The%20Kernel%20Kit/S...
6. 786.▲
   by kd0amg 16y ago

   Data structures, algorithms, language/automata theory, computer architecture, set theory, logic, graph theory, linear algebra, combinatorics, and abstract algebra have been the subjects I got the most mileage out of. Data structures and alg
7. 787.▲
   by kd0amg 16y ago

   I've wondered this myself a few times. If I were going to do a startup myself, I'd probably stay right here (near the northern tip of the state). For any topic/problem that will hold my interest, I know at least a couple other people nearby
8. 788.▲
   by kd0amg 16y ago

   I'd go with Tarjan and Hopcroft's planarity testing algorithm, whose runtime is linear in the number of vertices.
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   by kd0amg 16y ago

   I presume if I had an unattended roadside vegetable stand with a cash-box, that I'd be able to prosecute someone who took vegetables without paying, certainly if they also made off with the cash-box. Why is this different on the web? I th
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    In study #2, they manipulated people's beliefs about willpower by administering a "push poll", and then tested willpower depletion. How did they determine how well the push poll influenced that belief? How did they ensure it didn't work b
11. 791.▲
    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Programming languages are not like hand tools. Particularly when you consider how much different languages' capabilities overlap.
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Food is ranges from 0%-15% more than the midwest (our comparison point). Where in the Midwest did you use for this comparison? As far as I can tell from visiting, most grocery items cost my parents (near Chicago) 50-150% more than I pay f
13. 793.▲
    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Plus food isn't terribly expensive nor is transportation. About how expensive are groceries? Most of the posts here only really mention rent, which isn't enough to fully describe cost of living.
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Depends on the site, really. A lot of sites I've seen seem to go overboard with gratuitous Javascript. My school webmail works better if I turn Javascript off, e.g. it will then let me open an email in a separate tab (though for a quick ema
15. 795.▲
    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Disabling Javascript (or using NoScript if you want to be fancy) goes a long way towards making some bandwidth-heavy sites more manageable.
16. 796.▲
    by kd0amg 16y ago

    The textbook I first learned it from described entropy as the amount of uncertainty associated with the event[1]. I don't remember whether it tried to form an explicit link to "bits" in the sense of "amount of computer memory/storage." Perh
17. 797.▲
    by kd0amg 16y ago

    How much tweaking (of the source code and the build process) does it take to get it to work on OS X?
18. 798.▲
    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Is there a non-paywalled version?
19. 799.▲
    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Eh... good enough. I'd do it if I had my advisor's approval (I really doubt he'd give an OK that would get me in trouble).
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    I'm currently an engineering masters student, and the code I've written is available on github Did you have to clear this with your university/advisor? AFAIK, my university has copyright on code I produce on paid time or using university
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    I'm one of those 2% for different reasons(open for discussion): - it blocks 90% of ads, because most banners are JS driven ... disabled JS saves bandwidth These are my usual reasons. I've run into a lot of sites with orders of magnitude m
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    I think the author overestimates how much encapsulation we will see of actual programming. See the recent HN entry on programmerless programming ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1753634 ) as well as Brooks' "No Silver Bullet." Beyond t
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    I don't really make any effort to not disappear from meatspace. It takes some effort to not run into my housemates and whoever else stops by to visit (though avoiding them is still well within reach). As far as housework goes, I don't norma
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    The people in their study don't seem like a group that would actually understand the value of their assets The same could be said of the people who were trying to get rich quick by flipping houses. Every one I heard seemed to think housin
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    Suppose anywhere the plane was shot led to a 1/5 chance of the plane crashing, meaning that all places are equally deserving of armor. Suppose also that the wings comprised about 75% of the surface area of the plane. You'd see 3 planes ret
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    once we've separated this into "learning" and "building" components We should not separate them like this. Building something is often a great way to learn about it.
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    This is just spelling / grammar Some syntactic errors are so egregious as to obscure, change, or remove the meaning of a sentence.
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    The idea is not that those who haven't gone to university don't know better, but that going through university (which is assumed to have and take seriously an academic integrity policy) would teach them (even though many would already know
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    I would expect students who are investing large sums of money to be better prepared So did I. I spent a lot of time during high school looking over options of where to study. When I enrolled, I knew almost as much about the CS department'
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    by kd0amg 16y ago

    s/FAA/FCC/ Also, FCC jurisdiction or not, it's probably within ITU jurisdiction.