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by wging 15y ago
>>Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art. Not true! Live performances can be plenty interactive. Which doesn't devalue programming--you can do things in software you ac
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by wging 15y ago
OUCH. No mention of the contraction of the newspaper industry when discussing Gannett? >Next, we want to ensure that Gannett's stock has the ability to rise over the next five, 10, or 20 years. A company that's growing its net income ha
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by wging 15y ago
My experience is that it's a good way to solidify your understanding of basic syntax and it's great to think about speed of execution, but not so good at providing structure to think about.
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by wging 15y ago
For what it's worth, here's Lockhart's actual article (warning: pdf) http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf .
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by wging 15y ago
>Lots of people have complained that without comment scores it's harder to pick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now you have to judge a comment for itself. I say it's worse, because now I have to judge a comment f
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by wging 15y ago
Thought this was going to be about the posting of the full version of that paywalled Wall Street Journal article on Iran's plans for its own internet. Thank god that's still okay.
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by wging 15y ago
<grin>
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by wging 15y ago
Looking at the fonts he did select, it's clear why Terminus gets no mention: it's significantly different aesthetically, with squarer edges and more straight lines, etc., from his preferred fonts.
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by wging 15y ago
I think the rule is, "Write to your audience."
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by wging 15y ago
Minor note: Thurston's 'geometrization conjecture', which Thurston talks about near the end of the essay, has since been proven by Grigori Perelman. This article was apparently written before then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrizati
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by wging 15y ago
Blart Versenwald II seems to have done rather well though, no?
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by wging 15y ago
Not every summary is necessarily a TL;DR. Even for the most diligent reader, a cogent explanation of what exactly the author believes to be the most important information can help clarify and distill knowledge.
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by wging 15y ago
You can probably induce similar effects (in the reverse direction) by entering states of dehydration or low blood sugar. I've observed that dehydration can be a big cause of poor performance on my part.
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by wging 15y ago
What's the law on preferential protection of your patents? With copyrights and/or trademarks, I think there's something like losing the rights if you fail to defend them. So people with legitimate, inoffensive uses for things have been quas
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by wging 15y ago
If your purchase of the game is tied to a Steam account, that should work. You'd have to make a new Steam account to avoid these penalties... probably actually a bigger hassle than it sounds, since which account you're logged in as determin
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by wging 15y ago
I think this is marvelous but overthought. Here's my Python code (2.7 and 3.2-compatible): twss = lambda sentence: True
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by wging 16y ago
Funny, I think Paul Erdős.
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by wging 16y ago
$175/hour * 40 hours/week * 50 weeks/year = $350,000/year, for anyone else (like me) who can't immediately estimate equivalent yearly rates.
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by wging 16y ago
Almost. Coprimality can never be guaranteed. If the numbers are p and q, with p prime and q being adjustable, just take q=p. Then they match up, showing that this barrier isn't enough. The other relevant barrier we have is probably that a 6
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by wging 16y ago
You've still failed to correctly apply associativity, unfortunately. You're treating 2(9+3) as a single unit, but ÷ appears before the implicit multiplication between 2 and (9+3) and so should get evaluated first. The division should get si
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by wging 16y ago
While you're technically correct, of the standard four half (+, *) are both left- and right-associative. / and - are the ones that are only left-associative.
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by wging 16y ago
My favorite one of these comes from physics. Simple harmonic motion impossible to deal with? Voila, assume |sin(x) - x| is small and just deal with x instead of sin(x)--magic!
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by wging 16y ago
I'm not sure the latter's true for anyone other than hardcore geeks.
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by wging 16y ago
I'm sorry, what's a Color?
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by wging 16y ago
But isn't pretending you're this guy and trying to determine what you'd do based on what's smart and rational kind of a glaring contradiction?
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by wging 16y ago
I would also guess that it's biased more toward 7 than toward 3. That's the conventional wisdom, isn't it? Below 4, 3; below 10, 7; below 20, 17; below 40, 37. Or has this bit of pop-math folklore been lost in translation?
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by wging 16y ago
I appreciate the sentiment that underlies your post, but in practice, I think piracy would be much easier.
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by wging 16y ago
>writing programs is harder than writing a proof Which programs and which proofs?
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by wging 16y ago
I am not sure that I buy this. There are plenty of people who have internalized a painstaking and rigorous approach to problem solving, often from a young age. While many of these are also those who would excel in a mathematical environment