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by linguae 1y ago
I thought of another possibility: if he enrolled at a university that will allow him to skip or test out of the introductory CS courses, then this will also save time, though he’d still likely need to take non-CS intro courses such as calcu
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by linguae 1y ago
Disclaimer: I’m a tenure-track community college instructor in computer science in Silicon Valley. Assuming your son is in the United States since you mentioned “state university,” an option for reducing costs is attending a community colle
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The Declaration of Independence and the original US Constitution (the main portion plus the Bill of Rights) are also written in this style, though not all nouns are consistently capitalized.
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In addition, NeXT had a successful pivot to selling a web server framework named WebObjects, which had many big-name customers such as Dell (which infamously abandoned WebObjects once Apple purchased NeXT due to the optics of having an Appl
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by linguae 1y ago
Many undergraduate CS programs require their students to take one or two classes where students learn about grammars, parsing, abstract syntax trees, interpreters, and compilers. I’ve also taken graduate courses in programming languages th
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by linguae 1y ago
I partly agree that white supremacy, particularly in the form of xenophobia, played a major role in Trump’s catapult to popularity (“Mexico’s not sending their best!” in 2015) and his enduring popularity (“they’re eating the cats!” in 2024)
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by linguae 1y ago
For someone at the level of Terence Tao, this may be a good idea if a university is willing to hire him, even if it were for a temporary position until 2029 when (hopefully) the regime changes and the destruction is over. I’m sure Terence
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by linguae 1y ago
I agree. For decades our political and cultural leadership took actions that benefitted themselves and other beneficiaries (e.g., property owners in coastal metro areas, tech and finance workers, etc.), but life has gotten harder for the p
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Peak Microsoft to me was 1999-2000. Office 2000 (though Office 97 was also excellent), Windows 2000, and Visual Basic 6.0 were great. In my opinion, things started going downhill with Windows XP, with the introduction of product activation
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by linguae 1y ago
I’m reminded of Standard ML (note that this has nothing to do with machine learning). It is a simple language with a powerful static type system, and while it is a functional programming language, it permits impure operations such as mutab
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by linguae 1y ago
I’m not a pro-natalist in the sense of this article, but I do wish housing was less expensive, which I believe is one of the biggest barriers to family formation in this generation. Where I live (the United States), it’s become very difficu
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by linguae 1y ago
I don’t know enough about economic conditions in Europe to say something intelligent, but unfortunately I’m very pessimistic about the near- and medium-term future of America. There’s nothing on the horizon that will make life better for e
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by linguae 1y ago
TL;DR: Check out MIT’s Open Courseware. Long answer: In the United States, many colleges and universities use educational CMS platforms such as Canvas and Piazza for sharing course content with enrolled students. I used Canvas as a UC Sant
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by linguae 1y ago
I remember the late 2000s and the early 2010s. This was not a good time for the Linux desktop. I was a Mac OS X user at the time, but I used Linux in virtual machines for development, and so I paid attention to the Linux desktop landscape
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by linguae 1y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. To make matters worse, the “culture wars” have led to a situation where many voters for one party would never consider voting for members of the opposite party due to where the fall on cultural matters such as abort
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by linguae 1y ago
Something to keep in mind is available software for NeXT computers versus for platforms that NeXTstep got ported to (x86, PA-RISC, SPARC). Many later software written for NeXTstep and its successor OPENSTEP had “fat binaries,” meaning that
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by linguae 1y ago
“[W]hen you are comfortable spending money” is the kicker, though. Unfortunately, the Bay Area is oppressively expensive, and the same can be said about places like New York City. High housing prices puts a major strain on the ability to
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by linguae 1y ago
I teach computer science at a community college in Silicon Valley. Even before generative AI became available to the general public, cheating has been an issue with CS programming assignments. One way I try to disincentivize cheating on pr
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The history is a little more complicated than this…it is true that South Africa was eventually sanctioned by the US for its apartheid policies, and this helped lead to the end of apartheid. However, the US supported South Africa during muc
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This tripped me up last week when I was reading Futamura’s paper on partial evaluation (i .e., Futamura projections). I’m not used to the “apply” terminology for functions, even though I learned the lambda calculus in grad school over a de
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by linguae 1y ago
I also have a collection of Macs and NeXT computers, including a Macintosh SE and a NeXT Cube. I was just a baby when these computers were being manufactured; I first learned about these computers in high school when Mac OS X was new and w
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by linguae 1y ago
I’d love to have a project car that I could work on, particularly something simple like a classic Volkswagen Beetle or maybe something more complex but still manageable like a 1980s BMW, but one significant challenge I have (and many other
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by linguae 1y ago
I agree. Even for Americans with experiences learning foreign languages and adapting to different cultures, it is not easy living abroad. This is anecdotal, but I am currently in Japan as a visiting researcher at a Japanese university duri
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Right; a professor's tenure at many research universities depends on the professor's publication and grant-raising success, with less of an emphasis on a professor's teaching performance. That's one of the things I like
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I agree with this analysis; it would be hard for American scientists with spouses and children to relocate. However, there’s another thing to consider: the amount of researchers from grad students all the way to tenured professors and seni
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Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Computer History Museum My favorite part about the Computer History Museum is the events they hold occasionally where they have live interviews and demos from legendary figures in computing. Over the ye
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I didn’t know Jony Ive designed the eMate 300! I loved them when I was in elementary school, where we’d sometimes use them in class to write short essays. This was circa 1999-2001 near Elk Grove, CA, a suburb of Sacramento.
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by linguae 1y ago
Yup, Jony Ive was hired before Steve Jobs returned to Apple. In fact, he worked on the 20th Anniversary Macintosh, though he wasn't the sole designer. If I remember correctly, Ive was considering leaving Apple around the time Jobs re
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I’m a big Steve Jobs fan, but I’m also a fan of what I call the “interregnum” years at Apple from 1985 through 1996. Yes, Sculley, Spindler, and Amelio were not the greatest leaders, and Apple fumbled hard with Pink/Taligent, Copland,
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I 100% agree. In fact, even in the original C/Unix versus Lisp/Lisp machines that were mentioned in Richard's Gabriel "The Rise of Worse is Better" article, C and Unix were inexpensive compared to Lisp implementati

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