olavk

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by olavk 11y ago
> the information we are talking about is readily available This is sidestepping the whole issue under discussion. The purpose of science education is to teach students about the theories in the field, what evidence is available, how it
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by olavk 11y ago
Some languages, eg. BASIC, used goto's instead of functions. It is easy to see how this can lead to a horrible mess of spaghetti code.
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by olavk 11y ago
Sure golden age Athens had many brilliant minds, but the relation to the Socratic method is dubious. The Socratic method was pioneered by Socrates in opposition to contemporary education, which is the environment where all these minds gre
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by olavk 11y ago
Scott Adams seems to want science to be like religion, and is disappointed that it isn't.
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by olavk 11y ago
That is cheating!
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by olavk 11y ago
Not sure what you are getting at, field observations are an important part of many sciences like biology, geology, meteorology etc. Just as an example, if you want to study animal behavior it is much more valid to study it in the natural ha
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by olavk 11y ago
Who is talking about banning subjects? It is just a question of keeping science in science classes, and the study of religious ideas in classes about the study of religions ideas. For example the change from the geocentric to a heliocentric
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by olavk 11y ago
What is "evolutionism"? I've never heard that word before. Ah, Wikipedia has the answer: "In the creation-evolution controversy, creationists often call those who accept the validity of the modern evolutionary synthesis
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by olavk 11y ago
Off topic I know, but what time is you talking about with "genius per capita"? I wonder how this have been measured.
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by olavk 11y ago
A laboratory experiment on fruit flies is also described a bit further down the page.
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by olavk 11y ago
Sure: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_45
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by olavk 11y ago
By that line of reasoning schools should no teach anything at all. 2+2=5 is just as valid math as 2+2=4, anything else would be allowing the government to hide the truth!
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by olavk 11y ago
You are not correct. Evolution have been observed in nature and artificially reproduced many many times. Just look at dogs. Separate species of fruit flies have been evolved in a laboratory setting.
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by olavk 11y ago
Hitler might have made that order, but that doesn't mean that WWII bombers were actually able to bomb with such precision that they could deliberately avoid hitting specific buildings. Especially since the bombings happened at night! T
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by olavk 11y ago
Ah, than makes sense.
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by olavk 11y ago
Part of the Copenhagen story is that the first planes hit the Gestapo HQ with the bombs, but one of the planes hit a tower, dropped the bombs over a random street and then crashed into a girls school. The following planes then bombed the cr
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by olavk 11y ago
Bombing the camps would have killed the prisoners. Extermination camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau was built in connection with the concentration camp Auschwitz, so it would have been impossible to bomb without killing camp prisoners. Now somet
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by olavk 11y ago
I don't think you would ever have a project were you could choose between Rust and Python. Their domains are quite distinct. Rust is for performance critical applications where you cant afford garbage collection. You would choose Rust
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by olavk 11y ago
If you know that you are going to need piracy risk support, then of course it makes sense to prepare the architecture for it, even if you only have to deliver the feature four months down the line. But YAGNI does not apply if you know a
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by olavk 11y ago
Can you elaborate on the different meanings of 'systems programming'? I just thought it meant OS development.
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by olavk 11y ago
The tragedy of the aerial bombardment of WWII is that bombing was not precise enough to hit specific buildings or landmarks. The targets was on the level of a whole city. This is part of the reason the number of civilian casualties in WWII
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by olavk 11y ago
Highly unusual when talking about European history. Outside of this context though, ancient may just mean "very old".
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by olavk 12y ago
It seems from the quote that Sartre simply finds flashbacks uncinematic.
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by olavk 12y ago
Much of the praise for Kane is because it used groundbreaking cinematography, which have influenced many later films. But to appreciate that, you have to know that Kane was the first movie to use these techniques. The movie (like many histo
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by olavk 12y ago
Nobody would deny that there exist both amazing programmers and really crapper programmers. The thing is, without any hard data this information is pretty useless. How is productivity distributed among developers? Is 1/10 of developers
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by olavk 12y ago
In any case, Tim Berners-Lee wasn't an amateur. He was a computer scientist who had experience with information systems before creating the Web. But his design was clever AND simple and accessible to use for amateurs. If I remember the
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by olavk 12y ago
Two browsers cannot display the same image if they say use screens of different sizes and dimensions. This is the difficult problem that HTML and CSS try to solve, so that the same web page is actually readable both on a desktop screen an
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by olavk 12y ago
The web might have been created by amateurs, but it works incredibly well. Sure, we have browser incompatibilities and whatnot, but this is an effect of having multiple independent implementations of the standards, which is part of what mak
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by olavk 12y ago
Then most programming is not computer science.
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by olavk 12y ago
You are thinking of the Pantheon. It is a temple in Rome built in the first century, and it has a dome made of concrete. (The Parthenon on the other hand is a temple in the Acropolis in Athens, but not related to concrete)

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