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by magice 12y ago
Yet-another-whining-about-college-education. Frankly, this is the most appropriate place to scream, "get a job, man." I never understanding these complains about how bad college education is. We talking about America here, the lan
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Why Knowing how to Code won't Save Virtual Citizens(dreamy-lambda.blogspot.com)
3 points by magice 12y ago|0 comments
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by magice 12y ago
I think the fundamental problem is this: programming is not computer science. Think physics vs mechanics, or biology vs medicine, or theory vs practice. Nobody will expect a physicist to fix their cars, or a biologist to cure their sickness
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by magice 12y ago
You know what I love about these kinds of posts and articles? It's their awesome logics: private entities (who, naturally, seek to maximize their profits) are damaging net neutrality (to make profit); therefore, we should limit the gov
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Rent vs Passion(dreamy-lambda.blogspot.com)
1 points by magice 13y ago|0 comments
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by magice 13y ago
sigh I once read that Americans over-estimate children and under-estimate age (and expertise in general). This shows so well. Can children enjoy food? Music? Play music properly? Pursuit passions? Spending days glued to a book? Of course,
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by magice 14y ago
Interestingly enough, discreet mathematics is also math. Surprisingly enough, every single programmer uses that thing everyday. So math is useless.
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by magice 14y ago
Here is my wish: a system that collect money from me (a few bucks a month, says), and spread that money to different projects according to how much I use/like them. That would be awesome.
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by magice 14y ago
Here is the interesting thing about the US (I almost typed America, but we all know America also includes places like Canada and Mexico and Chile, etc.): everyone believes that s/he is in an counter-culture. By that I meant every single per
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by magice 14y ago
This is sad. Really sad. My personal opinion is that Americans just dislike academic matters so much that they are incapable of forming a coherent solution for their children's schooling. Let me tell you some personal anecdotes. I moved to
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by magice 14y ago
The thing is, if the semicolon is optional, you can't write more complex expression. For example, if you want to sum a bunch of numbers, you can't have the plus signs at the beginning of the lines anymore.
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Ask HN: why do people seem to hate ; that much?
4 points by magice 14y ago|11 comments
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by magice 15y ago
I chose Python not because of the language itself (in fact, it is not that different from a bunch of languages that I love), but because it is a preacher under the cloak of a language. I mean, yes, by default, I do a lot of things that Pyth
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by magice 15y ago
The current state of "design": 1. If it is Apple, it is perfect 2. If it successfully emulates Apple, it is awesome 3. If it tries to emulate Apple, it is good 4. If it is different from Apple, it is bad, devil, unintuitive, terrible, be-da
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by magice 15y ago
<another emacs partisan> Look at emacs. Now look at Sublime Text. Now back to emacs. Time to admit it: Sublime Text makes you look like a wimpy stupid wench who cannot stop talking about some stupid unprofessional tool that tries to
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by magice 15y ago
This article is a proof of the stupidity, ignorance, and general jerkiness of an Apple user. It's like, the world must resolve around some standards set by Apple because it fails to deliver a system that actually works. Oh, and never mind t
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by magice 15y ago
I strongly believe (even observed) that the whole "teenage rebellion" is more or less a modern American phenomenon. At least in my experience of teenage Vietnamese (a few years ago, at least), as well as reading of various literature regard
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To Type or Not to Type(dreamy-lambda.blogspot.com)
1 points by magice 15y ago|0 comments
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by magice 15y ago
Agreed. Plus, he had upto 2 expensive wars to fight, and now a hostile House of Representatives who clearly do not understand anything about economics.
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by magice 16y ago
Lisp HAS way too many CPAN's
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by magice 16y ago
I think this essay is bull. As someone points out, it is yet another I-am-so-good-that-no-one-wants-me things that LISP people love to throw out. Maybe THIS attitude ("Lisp is Olympia and I, the proud user, is Zeus") is why. Let's be frank,
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The Cult of Inventor(fluff.info)
2 points by magice 16y ago|0 comments
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by magice 16y ago
Last time I checked, economics was still considered "scientific." That means we should not be operating on consensus basis, but proof. What is the scientific model of these things that economists agree on? Have them be checked against histo
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Free Software is not free(dreamy-lambda.blogspot.com)
1 points by magice 16y ago|5 comments
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by magice 16y ago
Well, truth to be told, Obama is NOT an engineer, is he? He is a policy maker, so he should concentrate on policies so long as: 1. his policies generally agree with the popular consent and the constitution (the US is a democratic republic,
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by magice 16y ago
Personally, I think people who think so ing pessimistic like you are THE degraders of the society. BTW, can you please stop the whole uninformed stream of junks about how glorious "the past" is? In the real past, people starved to death
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by magice 16y ago
Haha, so Microsoft decides against banishing the BSOD? So far as I know, it seems that most stuffs started at Microsoft Research end there. Therefore: good job, researcher, now I will come back to my trusted fedora. I mean, Fedora.
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by magice 17y ago
Actually, I ain't. Apple does an excellent job, as always: Everyone is overflowing with emotions by now. "What emotions" is, obviously, a different story.
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by magice 17y ago
It highly depends on how much you are willing to do. I mean, the possibilities are endless. Some come to my mind are: * compiler/interpreter of some languages (for simplicity, usually Scheme or something easy) to Javascript, with good inter
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by magice 17y ago
I don't understand. Are you saying that Philippines is abusing GPL, or that GPL is the cause of of corruption there? I am willing to admit that GPL is not perfect (it is very US-oriented, to say the least), but to throw out this kind of non

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