septimus111

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by septimus111 10y ago
I guess I like the Fields medal model better - it's awarded only to people younger than 40 to encourage future achievements.
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by septimus111 10y ago
I greatly admire the guy but does TBL OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS really need another award or title? All that money and publicity could be directed towards promising junior researchers who need it!
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by septimus111 10y ago
I'd like to try implementing a toy program that incorporates some planning. Any ideas of games that would be suitable for this?
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by septimus111 10y ago
Here in the UK the difference between London vs the rest of the country is insane: I would love to live somewhere with a better quality of life but it's much harder to find a good job outside London. I wonder how much of the resistance
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by septimus111 10y ago
How are companies supposed to evaluate candidates without giving them some form of busywork? The best way I can think of is to pay them to complete a project but that's not possible when you are interviewing loads of candidates.
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by septimus111 10y ago
I agree that these interviews are often just an annoying rite of passage, and they exclude many very talented programmers, but dismissing companies that use them as 'incompetent' seems like a stretch to me. Learning basic data str
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by septimus111 10y ago
Good suggestion, but it still wouldn't prevent beginners from just learning the 0.3f notation as an idiom and skipping the explanation. The trouble with floats is that understanding them depends on knowledge of binary, scientific notat
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by septimus111 10y ago
The same thing is true with other categories of stuff. I was surprised to learn a few years ago that 'old' clothes and shoes can last 20 years and in some cases longer.