mamama

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by mamama 18y ago
"the professor covered multiple blackboards with mathematical formulas and explained the principles of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism." Walter Lewin did a lot more than just that.
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by mamama 18y ago
Just another way for the ETS to sandwich more money.
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by mamama 18y ago
This is an interesting exchange between Mark Guzdial and Alan Kay: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKVUNBWIDAS9YQ The focal point of the argument seems to be whether CS "education" and "vocational training" should be separated. P.S.
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by mamama 18y ago
I feel Expose is quite counter-productive. The golden rule any developer must know: never use the mouse. Multiple desktops and Quicksilver (instead of the dock, which is quite distracting) are far more efficient.
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by mamama 18y ago
Yes, they are: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/speakers http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/ I remember seeing videos of Yegge's and Munroe's talks. Yegge's is worth watching.
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by mamama 18y ago
Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. e.g. General relativity has a lot of mathematics backing it up. L
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by mamama 18y ago
I'm a high school senior student who has applied to several public universities; mainly a subset of Berkeley, UIUC, UWash, Michigan, UT Austin, GATech, and Purdue. I'm wondering if you are at one of these these places (or a university of a
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by mamama 18y ago
The Hazel Tree: http://thehazeltree.org/
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by mamama 18y ago
What if working hard on what I like could potentially get me into debt? Or what if I like to impress people?
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by mamama 18y ago
^ | | | | pg
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by mamama 18y ago
Yeah, but we really ought to stop using extraneous punctuation.
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by mamama 18y ago
A big cultural problem also amplifies this: a majority of the middle and upper class families want their children to become engineers. Our country does not need any more corporate drones, we need better politicians.
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by mamama 18y ago
It's actually the education system that is largely responsible for the "extremely corrupted political system", among other issues.
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by mamama 18y ago
Windows 7
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by mamama 18y ago
No.
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by mamama 18y ago
Wow, that reporter sure is attractive.
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by mamama 18y ago
The Cookbook (Amazon it, I'm too sleepy to link) contains examples of idiomatic code that you should use.
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by mamama 18y ago
The BitTorrent code looked awful the last time I saw it; complete with 20 arguments for one function.
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by mamama 18y ago
Not all of us went to MIT.
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by mamama 18y ago
Mark Cuban on how to become an innumerate tool: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/35949.html?thread=516461 .
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by mamama 18y ago
...or google RMS!
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by mamama 18y ago
These two books look interesting, too: http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/ http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/ As for your suggestion on reading Understanding the Linux Kernel , is it readable even if I haven't taken a course on Oper
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by mamama 18y ago
Then you've got other problems.
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by mamama 18y ago
True. And fairly polished, too.
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by mamama 18y ago
However, Charles Leiserson is a pedantic douche.
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by mamama 18y ago
Are you referring to Chinese immigrants? Because if China is anything like India, kids would actually be discouraged to play the piano, as it would prove to be a "distraction from their studies."
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by mamama 18y ago
I feel only a small fraction of them are actually smart... the entire K-12 education in India is little more that an exercise in rote memorization. College education isn't that great either, even in the elite universities.
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by mamama 18y ago
But can it run Crysis?
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by mamama 18y ago
Not as good as "Larry Ellison's speech" at Yale: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/ellison.asp
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by mamama 18y ago
These pointless "women in computer science" articles really make my trigger finger itchy.

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