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by swift 16y ago
The high you get from cannabis, to my mind, restores a playfulness and creativity to your thinking that most people have as children but lose as adults. It can sometimes make linear, technical thinking harder, but it tends to make it easier
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by swift 16y ago
Anyone who hasn't tried a general purpose language with pattern-based dispatch (usually referred to in practice as "pattern matching") should really do themselves a favor and try one; it's one of the most useful language features around. No
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by swift 16y ago
I'm not sure if "middle ground" is quite right; PEGs and CFGs can express a different set of languages, and each has their own advantages. Probably the most important tradeoff is that with PEGs you gain infinite lookahead and negation, but
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by swift 16y ago
This was a good bit of wit that seems, alas, to have gone largely unappreciated.
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by swift 17y ago
I don't see the relevance between "wolves and sheep" and the rest of your argument. The point is not that we need to pressure women into CS, or market it to them in a glitzy fashion; instead, we simply need to make CS as comfortable an envi
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by swift 17y ago
I believe the previous poster meant that the license of MAME forbids bundling it with ROMs.
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by swift 17y ago
Seconded. The comments are a very big part of why I enjoy HN so much, and I wouldn't consider buying the app without support for them.
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by swift 17y ago
I'm not sure that I think shrooms or LSD are good for programming per se, but they're very good for the larger goal of solving problems. They let you look at things with no preconceptions, like a child. You are able to playfully consider di
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by swift 17y ago
It seems pretty obvious that your hypothetical objections have not been a problem in practice; no other mobile device has an app ecosystem on the scale of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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by swift 17y ago
The reviews I have read of those lead me to reject them as an option.
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by swift 17y ago
I understood that statement to be talking about class mobility. Obviously 'poor' and 'rich' are relative terms, not necessarily pegged to a specific amount of income or wealth.
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by swift 17y ago
Apparently Google can't win no matter what it does.
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by swift 17y ago
Have you ever heard of 'regression towards the mean'? On average, exceptional parents tend to have slightly less exceptional children. In any case, there's no need to sit here and think up a priori explanations for this correlation. I'm afr
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by swift 17y ago
What's frustrating to me is that these SheevaPlugs seem to have enough processing power to be a pretty respectable desktop computer, but they lack any kind of display output. If someone would throw a VGA or DVI port on one of these things,