randrews

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by randrews 19y ago
Might be because he doesn't have command of the language, and doesn't feel like learning templates. Or macros. Or reflection. Or whatever.
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by randrews 19y ago
I think this is related closely to another popular question: how do you determine that someone else has command of a particular language? I think the point that I would pick is when you start feeling constrained by it. If you start wantin
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by randrews 19y ago
Well, what about not being reliant on docs for syntax, but only for library functions? I can never remember what each language calls "length" (length? size? Is it the same for strings and arrays? What about number of keys in a map?) but I d
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by randrews 19y ago
I am not sure I agree with that. It's entirely possible to make a Rails app that solves your problems without having a command of Ruby. I guess you could consider "Rails" a separate language from Ruby...
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by randrews 19y ago
I remember reading an interview with one of the authors of Rogue where he said that one of the big motivations for them was designing a game that they could play. Most games at the time were interactive fiction, where if you know the soluti
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by randrews 19y ago
Yeah. I very much agree. So, the logical next question is, how would we use the same technique to teach kids better lessons? * Resources should go to whoever can make the coolest things with them. * Groups lead to compromises, great a
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by randrews 19y ago
They may not move just to save on gas, but if they're moving anyway for other reasons, you can bet that gas prices will be a factor in where.
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by randrews 19y ago
It sounds like most of the teachers' problems centered around the Legos being a zero-sum thing, where if I use all the cool pieces, then you can't. I wonder if they would be as bothered by the inner-circle thing if the students were program
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by randrews 19y ago
In case #1, were you better off before this change? It is possible to become not-a-dependent through paperwork-fu, also, in which case a student would qualify if they make under $100k (likely).
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by randrews 19y ago
I kind of pity Microsoft here. Is it actually possible to make money writing development tools any more? I use a lot of them and don't pay anything, because whenever I want something that costs money, there's a free version that's better. A
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by randrews 19y ago
There's probably some minimum that you need, like maybe multiplication up to 10x10, and squares up to 20 or 30. I like the idea (though not the name) of mental math. I think that if all you teach someone is multiplication tables and long di
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by randrews 19y ago
I do long multiplication all the time... In the Emacs "multiplication puzzle" mode.
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by randrews 19y ago
I can see what the textbook authors intended here, I think. There's not a whole lot of point to memorizing multiplication tables, it's much more useful to be able to work out arithmetic in your head. The way described here (going to multipl
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by randrews 19y ago
Aren't tons of little specialized search engines the problem Google was made to fix?