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by vbtemp 14y ago
Interesting article, overall. Something occurred to me though: > "Dave expressed his enthusiasm for the material by asking a lot of very technical questions to the instructor. Largely, these questions seemed designed to show off his own
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> software engineering is still largely a collection of (fairly subjective and contextually-sensitive) best practices. I agree I'm glad I did computer science. Even though my title now is Software Engineer, I learned most software engin
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#1 (My Ad-Hominem Attack) Who is this guy? Why does he go on to trash comp sci if he never studied it? #2 "Of all the mathematical sciences, computer science is unquestionably the dullest. If I had my time again, despite discovering just ho
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Cheesy linkbait. Title: "NASA Wanted Astronaughts to View Venus Close Up" Body: "Alas, it was a “thought mission,” a plan designed to showcase the durability and flexibility of Apollo hardware. The report was prepared by Bellcom, a division
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So how do you pay for medical bills when you or a spouse gets cancer and needs chemotherapy, or even something as basic as a root canal causing horrendous pain? Will all that fit in a 27k budget?
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It's good to have as a repository of people you've met over the years and may need to contact again, but for nothing more.
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> Back when I was in college, 2003-2007, I remember going to lecture halls and sitting in the back. Every student had a laptop out, and all they were doing was posting garbage on other peoples walls. I was so disgusted with the populari
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I'm wondering: Who else doesn't use facebook? I have an account, sure, back from '05 when I started college. I log in so infrequently that I often get emails from facebook along the lines of "you haven't logged in in 3 months. We think you
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Amen to that!
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I want to co-exist with bikers, I really do. I wish our cities on the east coast would be more bike friendly. But bikers need to make up their minds. Who are they, vehicles or pedestrians? Each comes with it's own rights and obligations. I
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I wouldn't say it's rubbish - but it's no great authority on communicating the proof itself, certainly. It is a good biography though, covering the roots in the Vienna circle and the disagreements with Wittgenstein. Edit: Thanks for posting
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I consider a solid discrete math curriculum to provide a reasonable background in first and second order logic
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Not really. I'm just saying we don't go around all day doing logic-algebra in our head and saying only true, consistent things :)
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At the very least a good course in discrete mathematics is a good start (it's also a good start for anything technical as well - one of the most valuable math classes anyone can ever take, as far as I'm concerned) Following that, a good cla
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Be careful. That's a naive view, and drawing more conclusion than I think you mean. This it more like it: For any consistent, finite axiomatized formal system that is sufficiently expressive (such as the Principia Mathematica), you can cons
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Interesting. I'll look into that. THanks.
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When I first became fascinated with incompleteness (following initial coursework in theory of computation), it kind of became my "religion" of sorts for a while. But as many mathematicians lament, the Incompleteness Theorem is one of the mo
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Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve I.e., "Closed timelike curves". I'm not expert in this matter, but it's a conceptual possibility that fits into general relativity.
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> Steve wasn't exactly a man of science. He pulled that number out of his ass and everyone here seems to think it smells great! Haha, what a perfect quote! Thanks
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The great irony is that between Stanford, cal tech, the UCs, and the tech sector, Calif probably ranks 1st in the world in science...
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This is a scam, I distinctly remember from my time playing this in the early nineties, that holding down the I + L + M keys all at the same time would give you full health, full ammo, and both keys. This doesn't have that!!!!
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I'm not an expert on Apollo flight software, but comparing the role of flight software in the avionics of 60s era spacecraft isn't really a fair comparison. From what I recall there were a number of FSW faults and overloads just prior to th
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I've seen some pretty phenomenal flight software written in C. Well-architected, solidly implemented. I've also seen some pretty horrible flight software written in C. Naturally, and as with all software, clear requirements, avoidance of "f
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> I get annoyed when people are too lazy/incompetent to support IE6 That's kind of a strange sentiment, especially considering IE6 is basically extinct in the wild (unless you are targeting users of pirated copies of Windows in China)..
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I didn't support IE until, much to my chagrin, I discovered about 30% of my hits were from IE. Fortunately, simply putting the !doctype meta-tag (or whatever it is) fixed almost all my issues (at least for IE 8+)
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That's easy to do if it's a long way on the open highway. But driving through gridlocked traffic in cities or during rush hour that isn't possible... at least for my limited brainpower :)
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The only thing is that this is not a free service, so I want just a couple users to flesh things out and get some new opinions, before releasing something that flops and gets a bad rap.
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Above all else, a commute to the office will suck all the creative juices straight from your cranium. Spending 30+ minutes schlepping through traffic each way makes the whole day a waste.
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This is really interesting. I'm planning my own limited invite-only beta rollout. However, this isn't the first time I heard it's a time-waster. Does anyone else have opinions on this?
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Ask HN: How do you deal with mean and angry users (before launch)?
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