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by pmb 14y ago
They are doing the real deal thing - for each problem, designing a language in which to express the solution, and then writing the solution. Part of the point is that the building such solutions isn't really teachable in the context of a t
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by pmb 14y ago
Show me the code. Before I believe this, I'll need to see a codebase that uses MOVE and not MVC and manages to do things which are not easy in MVC. It's find to rant and rail against old patterns, but patterns are de scriptive, not pre
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by pmb 14y ago
We like this Internet, but we would like one without the "Inter", and possibly without the "net".
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by pmb 14y ago
Better than it is now, where none of that data is available except possibly through FOIA lawsuits.
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by pmb 14y ago
The statement "this fact is not provably true under the axioms of mathematics" is not provably true under the axioms of mathematics. Therefore, it is true, but we can never prove it. I recommend approaching this via uncomputability, and th
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by pmb 14y ago
Those studies treated business students, STEM students, and liberal arts students as one cohort. STEM and Liberal arts students do make significant gains. Business majors actually show a LOSS.
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by pmb 14y ago
"claims of severe talent shortage in Big Data http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230472330457736... Ok... where are the high salaries (500k$ a year)? No? No real shortage." https://twitter.com/#!/lemire/status/19624566595164979
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by pmb 14y ago
I agree. Using these variable just places stumbling blocks in the way of understanding. http://imprompt.us/2007/foo/
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by pmb 15y ago
I have encountered groups of developers that have gone both ways - some actually paid attention to the people who knew things, and others paid attention to the people who claimed to know things. For example, I like to think I can tell wiza
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by pmb 15y ago
Hey you! Code culture IS weird. And not in a good way. I have all sorts of things I think about this, but I have trouble sorting these things out in any sort of useful way, so I really appreciate seeing others sorting their own thoughts o
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by pmb 15y ago
Overcoming impostor syndrome! Woo! Code culture measures how much you self-perceive to know about code. It's only after a bit of getting to know a person that you can get at their actual levels of competence. If you are in a situation th
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by pmb 15y ago
40,000 deaths annually due to driver error
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by pmb 15y ago
The senior faculty need to revolt first. The junior faculty need to jump through hoops and be judged by that cohort in order to keep their jobs (i.e. get tenure). If the senior faculty really want a change to occur, all they have to do is
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by pmb 15y ago
MIT OpenCourseware with Leiserson and Demaine. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by pmb 15y ago
Does not exist. It seems to be primarily about trying to define programming as an upscale profession like engineering - "programmers" might be replaceable cogs, but "software engineers" are a little harder to shove around. Even worse, you
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by pmb 15y ago
...and those secretaries were good at it. And so were the women math PhDs who could not get jobs elsewhere. And so were the women who had female mentors, and therefore failed to be chased away. All of which dumps water on the "innate abi
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by pmb 15y ago
Up through high school, yes.
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by pmb 15y ago
New projects should go with Python 3, if possible. But really, the two languages are not very far apart. Do whichever if you are just learning and want to make small temporary things.
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by pmb 15y ago
Professors will do or become whatever is required of them to achieve tenure. The number on job of a professor is therefore to meet the tenure requirements of the institution - which at most places, means "do lots of research". Change the
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by pmb 15y ago
No benefits or job security is an industrial revolution? For the companies, maybe...
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by pmb 15y ago
It is superb that they have done the replication and followup and are reporting the null hypothesis.
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by pmb 15y ago
This whole thing weirds me out. Here we are on Hacker News, and yet there is a super-large contingent of people going "Well, he DID technically commit a victimless crime...". So yes - he did do something that was against some terms of serv
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by pmb 15y ago
For those that don't like reading, the document describes multiple employees of the "nonprofit" with compensation in excess of 200k.
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by pmb 15y ago
Business students, not ECE.
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by pmb 15y ago
Have you ever talked to a group in which more than a quarter were actively hostile and disinterested? It poisons the room. It's not "logical" that it should do that, but it is an empirical fact that it does.
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by pmb 15y ago
How can you tell? How can signals propagate through such a system?
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by pmb 15y ago
Do you know of any good techniques to measure teacher performance?
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by pmb 15y ago
If they aren't too different then we have sex with them, and if they are too different we kill them. We can project the future of our species using our awesome minds that can conceive of a "self", "species", and "time", and we deal with pe
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by pmb 15y ago
"Not too difficult". Hah. http://immigrationroad.com/green-card/immigration-flowchart-... The shortest route is 10 years.
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by pmb 15y ago
Lisp is already made of trees. A Lisp program is a pre-order traversal of the abstract syntax tree of a yacc'ed program in another programming language. This fact is WHY Lisp is powerful. By eliminating yaccing you can create new syntax

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