narribbi

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by narribbi 9y ago
There's provability ("math"), and testability / falsifiability ("science"), and then there's just making it work amidst a deluge of trade-offs ("engineering"). If in the end, you simply can'
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by narribbi 9y ago
> The problem with self-teaching is that you don't know what you don't know, so you don't realise where the gaps in your knowledge are. That is why the only valid starting point is : the problem at hand and to solve. From
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by narribbi 9y ago
> but learning something from scratch with minimal guidance is difficult Unfortunately, that is the only real skill. Everything else you can learn by using exactly that.
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by narribbi 9y ago
Balancing a binary tree is just an algorithm, like there are so many. As a programmer, you have to design algorithms on the fly, quite a few of which may actually be harder than just balancing a binary tree. Algorithms emerge automatically
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by narribbi 9y ago
> The fundamental knowledge of math and science that separates engineers from 'coders'. Only math. Furthermore, someone with years of coding instinctively develops such mathematical understanding, while the very same understand
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by narribbi 9y ago
When you read Trygve Reenskaug's original 1979 paper "MODELS - VIEWS - CONTROLLERS" -- it is very short, simple, and crystal-clear -- ( http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/1979/mvc-2/1979-12-MVC.pdf
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by narribbi 9y ago
Shortcomings should be addressed by forking bitcoin into yet another altcoin and demonstrate the proposed improvement over there. We now have 700+ alternative "altcoins" in circulation, most of them demonstrating pretty much nothi
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by narribbi 9y ago
I still have them! ;-)
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by narribbi 9y ago
> I really dont think bitcoin is a viable currency for mainstream use. Bitcoin is not a replacement for paper money, but for digital money. Only in developed countries, digital money is in mainstream use. Outside, the majority of people