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by veddox 11y ago
Could you elaborate? I don't quite see how a subject curriculum can make it harder to teach?
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by veddox 11y ago
A very good article! The author does a great job of painting a unified view of world history within the confines of his length restriction. Of course many things are only touched upon, and many others omitted entirely, but he certainly mana
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by veddox 11y ago
The point is not the focus on their local history, but the exclusion of other peoples' history that enabled their own history in the first place. Generally, the view taught in schools in the West is that "civilization" as we
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by veddox 11y ago
Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com), type in "Data structures and algorithms" (or some such) hit enter and then adjust the publication date in the side pane. BTW, Scholar is a search engine for academic articles and books (c
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by veddox 11y ago
I use a 15" Lenovo and on the whole I'm quite happy with it. I like the fact that the keyboard has a number pad, and the screen is big enough that I can fit two Emacs buffers side-by-side without breaking up 80-char-lines. However
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by veddox 11y ago
What's your experience with System76? Are they worth their money?
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by veddox 11y ago
I don't have any experience with Ruby, but I did a Jython project last year and I was rather disappointed. For a start it's still stuck on the 2.x versions of Python (I find 3.x much better, esp. for things like Unicode support)
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by veddox 11y ago
Why did YC not buy ycombnioator.com too? Isn't that a phishing risk - like www.gmail.com and www.gmai.com?
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by veddox 11y ago
I did virtually the exact same thing - except my first reaction on seeing the fake HN was: "Why the heck am I logged in as pg? Security hole? This ought to be fun, let's see what kind of things he can do in here..." Took me a
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by veddox 11y ago
47 years after Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"[1], the Structured Programming Wars flare up again on Hacker News :D Neat hack, though. [1] http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_viol
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by veddox 11y ago
While I agree with the first part of your post, I would claim that it will be several centuries before 9/11 is forgotten. The impact it had on the world is just too big to forget within 100 years. 9/11 fundamentally influenced Ame
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by veddox 11y ago
> We need more "life goes on" and less fear. Thumbs up for that. And respect to Boston for the way they handled the marathon bombings back in 2013. > the actual damage they did in the September 11 attacks has been dwarfed,
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by veddox 11y ago
Excellent comment! Although of course one has to remember that the impact of terrorism cannot be measured purely by a body count. There is a strong symbolic dimension to it - if al-Quaeda had killed a few thousand people in some remote town
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by veddox 11y ago
True, those are also good ones. Although I have to say the story of Mel is still my favourite :-)
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by veddox 11y ago
Both are great epics of hacking history. I just wonder whether there are any more?
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by veddox 11y ago
I'm not a professional developer, but for what it's worth, I have a Common Lisp utility module that I use in virtually every Lisp project of mine. Also I often approach project planning in such a way that I can reuse solutions for
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by veddox 11y ago
Vasili was not the only one to avoid nuclear war: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/stanislav-petrov_n_... tl;dr Stanislav Petrov was a Soviet officer working in a satellite recon unit tasked with disc
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by veddox 11y ago
Hm, thanks for pointing these occasions out, I had never actually heard about them!
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by veddox 11y ago
I like the comparison to the current China situation at the end of the article. It's true, China's military power and aggression are always being hyped, but when you get down to it, when is the last time you heard about a Chinese
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by veddox 11y ago
> USSR putting nuclear missles 90 miles off the coast of Florida had no impact on the balance of power, ie.. not a real new threat - which means Kennedy should not have opposed that, at the risk of inflaming tensions. I just don't f
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by veddox 11y ago
Now that's what I call 'meta'! In a discussion about an article about a poem, you are saying that the article isn't actually about the poem but about what the public thinks about the poem...
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by veddox 11y ago
We speak wrongly, and we become the sorcerer's apprentice :D I love that little piece, I've got to save it somewhere!
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by veddox 11y ago
right - thanks for the link, I haven't been on the xkcd site in a while (really need to catch up ;-) ) I do think the downvoting is uncalled for though, after all, it's not like the questions weren't pointless, and you coul
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by veddox 11y ago
I absolutely agree with your reasoning, but personally I chose even numbers both times ;-) They "feel nicer".
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by veddox 11y ago
No, I went with 4: a) it's even b) 2+2 c) 2*2 d) 2^2
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by veddox 11y ago
Kinda pointless, the whole thing - though I bet some statistician is going to publish some deep-insight paper from this data :D
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by veddox 11y ago
In that space, I wanted to say PI, but unfortunately they only allow ints...
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by veddox 11y ago
Very interesting approach! Ants are fascinating creatures, I used to spend hours as a kid watching them build their nests or raid a termite colony... And although I agree with many of the other posters here that one has to be extremely care
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by veddox 11y ago
I love it :-) What a time travel! I've been reading a bit about computing history of late, and that article sounds like it's straight from the pages of some old Jargon File entry...
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by veddox 11y ago
We live in a time and a culture that tells us that "newer is better". But sometimes, the "ancients" weren't that stupid after all...

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