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by wfo 12y ago
Honestly I think you're wasting your time - you can't argue with a teen-at-heart who's channeling Ayn Rand. All of the ingredients are there - the narcissism, the arrogance, the reflexive assault on anyone perceived to be a t
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by wfo 12y ago
I was hoping from the title this was a biting parody of the pervasive 'everyone, learn to code, right now, drop everything else it's all that's important' culture. Instead it's a full embrace. What a truly terrible
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by wfo 12y ago
Any halfway decent programmer I've ever met or heard of loves programming. They'd do it even if it didn't happen to be hyper-lucrative. We just got lucky; we're passionate about something that the owning class happens to
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by wfo 12y ago
There is something to be said for the notion that professors or any public intellectual will bias away from conservatism -- it is the job of a public intellectual in the humanities or social sciences (at least public intellectuals of the pa
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by wfo 12y ago
Your casual dismissal of half the central core of human intellectual enterprise over the last 4000 years raised my eyebrows, but when I got to your comment about topology it became clear you have no idea what you're talking about or ar
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by wfo 13y ago
Actually you are both right -- omega and omega + 1 (or omega^2) have the same 'number' of elements (there is a one to one correspondence) but the correspondence will not be (can not be) order-preserving. Ordinals are a natural ext
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by wfo 15y ago
In my experience it's more that more prestigious schools have a very talented student body, who are not at all used to failure. If something gets hard for the first time in their life, more of them are likely to say 'well that's not my thin