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by wawjgreen 4y ago
i don't know why your answer got downvoted. is HN community so devoid of a good sense of humor?
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
I know an MIT PhD (natural sciences) who thinks too highly of herself--when I beat her in the Chinese game of Wuziqi (She's Chinese and has beaten the computer and played nearly all her 20+ years), she was so pissed off....She still ha
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
the model decided to procrastinate, due to the anxiety of being put on display.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
Yes it can be ground into a powder and you can cook it alongside any meat dish--it gives the dish a nice, underground-ish taste.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
They do as far as my observation can be a valid evidence. A decade ago when I went to a hospital in China, the line to the ailments of the stomach and intestine was the longest, and this was true in several hospital across different provinc
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
@l33t2328 programming IS the language and method of expression in computer science. I agree that pointers and mem alloc is necessary if you want to do research in CS and will continue to be so in the future, but as far as programming (post
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
@tluyben2 thanks for the clarification, appreciated.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
@schoen: there is. the problem with traditional teaching methods is that they start from the ground up, without providing a motivation. I would be seriously worried about the state of a world whose denizens need a week or so to learn varia
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
this whole "low-level" thing and C-elitism is very off-putting to the smart folks like us--who are not stuck in the past and want to get on with the future. You don't need low level details to program well--you need a good la
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
programming is not computer science--but it is the language of computer science.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
you are right, CS50 is just a mish-mash without a clear focus and a timeline and action-plan for "what's next".
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
i dont think writing a recursive function is that hard; it takes an hur of instruction to be able to do this.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
there was too much hand-waving going in with CS50.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
local Stripe? local "one" means what?
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
i agree 100%. it is not easy to decide what is ultimately important, but there are cases that this is so.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
Thank you for the tip.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
let's not forget that aside from content signal-to-noise ratio of the links, HN comments provide nearly half of the value because one can see the "other" side of the "story", sort of like visceral critical thinking.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
multi-tasking decreases intelligence--there are a number of studies on this. One paper says up to 15% decrease in IQ.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
hehehe. my opeeeniooon on your "sides of day" and "time cube" can be best summarized as this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXwRgnZ990I both are suffering, and it shows.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
you are no different; he was a schizophrenic and you are just as paranoid--but only in another direction. There is a difference between healthy skepticism and paranoia. And keep your language clean, not every culture likes using that word y
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
you are proving my assertion that people like you are not intelligent--you are functionally normal at best. So to answer you, i will ask you (in Socratic manner): is time absolute? your question falls apart when there's no time. And ti
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
you need to get a better education in order to sharpen your reading comprehension skills. your comment doesn't add any value to the discussion and seems to reflect your frustration with your life.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
I think FAE is a pseudo-scientific construct; yes, keep blaming yourself but not anyone else. It smells like a conspiracy--to make you even more of a sheep.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
didn't DFW kill himself because he was suffering from mental illness?
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
they didn't because they won't because they can't. it has been statistically proven impossible.
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
the article seems to have been written by an immature MBA
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
i am not sure i understand you correctly. What do you precisely mean?
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
that is exactly what i had thought. i think they should write (MLe)
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by wawjgreen 4y ago
Do you mean "falling into flow state was much easier" when you switched to java/ruby?

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