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   by ldjb 10y ago

   I don't know about other countries, but here in the UK, most universities don't require an entrance exam to study computer science (they go by the grades you leave secondary school / sixth form with). The only two universitie
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   It's the entrance exam for graduate school, so candidates would likely be 21+.
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   The Japanese language uses three scripts: kanji, hiragana and katakana. Both kanji (the complicated-looking script which is imported from Chinese) and hiragana (the simpler-looking alphabet unique to the Japanese language) are used in all t
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   Unfortunately, the page the PDF is linked from [0] does not provide solutions. I don't think they are available (officially, at least). [0] http://www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/edu/entra/examarchive_e.shtml
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   I studied in the UK. I think our systems are rather different because a lot of that stuff is taught in secondary school, so you're expected to know it before starting uni. Which is all well and good if you stay on at secondary school (
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   In my personal experience studying undergraduate CS, apart from the dedicated maths modules, we did use mathematical notation for lambda expressions, regular expressions, finite automata, Turing machines and the like. We didn't cover c
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   An undergraduate degree in maths, sure. But if your degree is in computer science, I think it's likely you'd never come across any of this during the course. Some universities may teach it, but there are probably plenty that don&#
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this looks difficult. As someone who studied pure undergraduate CS (the course only included a couple of relatively basic maths units) in the UK, I feel I'd have to do a fair amount of
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   by ldjb 10y ago

   There is also a Japanese language version: http://www.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/edu/entra/pdf/archive/16math_j.pd...
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    Note that the linked paper is a mathematics exam that applies to the entire faculty (not just CS). In addition to that exam, one must also take a CS-specific exam. It seems that the Summer and Winter exams are rather different: August 2015:
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    This is potentially quite a useful tool! I notice YouTube assigns an identifier to these "anonymous playlists" that can be used in place of a regular playlist's identifier. For example, I created an anonymous (not anymore, I
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    I take it you're referring to this Financial Times article [0] that was posted to HN a couple of days ago [1]. It's really interesting to see early solutions to things we take for granted with modern technology. [0] https:/&
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    The amount is correct — it's the gross amount we send to the EU. Perhaps it would have been simpler to just put the net amount — £250 million — which is still a huge amount. Even if they did that, though, people would claim they were p
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    That poster was worded horribly and was not correct. It does not represent what the pledge was. However, whenever representatives from Vote Leave were questioned about the pledge, they were always very clear they meant spending a portion of
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    For one thing, how much further the "ever closer union" would go. There had already been chattering about an EU army, and it was only until after the referendum vote went through that we got concrete details on it. There was also
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    "Let's fund the NHS instead" doesn't mean spending the entire amount. I don't think anyone seriously expected all the money to be used to fund the NHS. Sure, the message written on the bus could have gone into more
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    I think much about remaining was not known either. One thing that was clear was that a vote to remain was not a vote for the status quo. But sure, it would have been nice to have been provided with more detail on what sort of Brexit we&#x27
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    Well, that was Vote Leave, not UKIP. And in fact, the pledge wasn't to spend the entire £350 million on the NHS, but part of it. The government is still looking to do just that, but it can't until we've actually left the EU (
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    Technically possible, but that would probably also require referendums in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to leave the UK, and I don't think there's much appetite for that. Interesting idea all the same, but it's just not
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    1. MPs acted as delegates because the government was elected on a manifesto promising a referendum and to deliver on the result. The referendum happened, the UK voted to leave, and so the majority of MPs respected the will of the people and
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    That would probably be a matter between you and the other party (the video never touches the app's servers). There's nothing stopping you from drawing up a contract yourself, but I don't see any reason for this app to provide
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    Occasionally, the fault isn't even really in the code! I remember some years ago spending a very long time debugging some code for my school coursework with my teacher. The code looked perfectly fine, but it didn't work. The usual
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    Slight nitpick, but if someone got tired walking over every time the bell rang, then surely the bell must have rung several times, in which case the scales must have picked up several defects, not zero. You do also need to factor in the ele
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    Perhaps the clock runs on solar power when it can't run on battery power? There might be an issue with the connections or wiring that prevents battery power from working, which would explain why replacing the battery didn't help.
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    For anyone curious about the few bits of Japanese on those sheets... On the BG Planning Sheet, 年 月 日 mean Year Month Day -- for indicating the date. 時 分 are Hour Minutes -- for indicating the time. デザイナー means Designer and プログラマー means Prog
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    Do also check out, if you haven't already, this Iwata Asks interview from 2009, which contains further insight into the development of the original Zelda, and more design documents: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    I have used DVD Decrypter [0] (unfortunately Windows-only) to make ISOs from DVDs. All the menus are retained, so I can still access special features (image galleries, character profiles, etc.). I also hear good things about MakeMKV [1], wh
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    You could, however what happens if an author does not post a hash? If I found someone else's paper without a hash, I could generate a hash of my own and claim authorship. This idea would only work if everybody started securing some for
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    I think RyanZAG is saying you can do unit testing outside of TDD, not that you can do TDD without unit testing. The fact is that both are true. You don't need TDD to use unit testing — you can implement first and test afterwards. In so
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    by ldjb 10y ago

    That would rely on everybody creating timestamped proof, otherwise you could claim ownership of any paper that hasn't been timestamped by timestamping it yourself. Not all cases are clear-cut, especially where a plagiariser restructure