> There isn't one game, there are infinitely many, and different people will have success at different games. But there is also the meta-game: The game of being able to win the highest variety and largest amount of…
No math proof, but I'd favor a cluster strategy as being faster to force a (partial) solution to existing clues.
> If the author means literally everyone dead, planet gone, then obviously it won't be "apocalyptic", but the science is suggesting it's likely to be really bad. No, the science doesn't imply that climate change is…
Also not in this thread until now, but two thoughts: First: A car can be "the means of production", if you're a driver for Uber/Lyft. Second: the issue I understand is that this website isn't letting one person take…
Well, for a SNES/NES/Atari/Genesis/etc. classic device, the issue might not be getting ROM images but doing so legally. Sure, I could find a torrent containing the entire NES+SNES library for making retro-Pi... but that…
Came into the comments to find this, and I'm going to expand on your description: I feel like quicksort isn't [uniquely] beautiful except when used alongside bubble sort to explain computational complexity (both big-O…
This argument seems to subtly imply that the only efficacious means to "level an uneven playing field" is government regulation, and not some other, non-government process such as boycotts. Government regulation is,…
> Which makes me ask the question: do you, gentle Hacker News reader, really want diversity of opinion and why? I speak only for myself, but the answer is an absolute, complete and emphatic YES. The reason is quite…
Came here to give the same answer. Between "Future of Programming" and the Mother of All Demos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY) I find it mindbogglingly depressing that it feels so much like the entire…
The induction hypothesis is a process in mathematics which assumes a formula for P(n) which is true, then uses this assumption and the problem definition to prove the case P(n+1). As a concrete example, take the formula…
I like to play with those sort of people by saying that the planets of the solar system are: "Mercury, Venus, Mondas, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Rupert". While one of those entries is…
> Can anyone name a language that they've grown to like more the more they learned about it? I would guess maybe only those in the LISP family would make the cut. Well, personally I've fallen in love with using FORTH…
While the meat of the article may be (somewhat) good, I take umbrage with the very first sentence: "A finite-state machine (FSM) is not really a machine, but it does have a finite number of states." A finite state…
If your conference will dis-invite / "de-platform" people based on their opinion about topic {foo}, you are in fact hosting a conference about {foo}, regardless of what your name, official agenda, or spokespeople say.…
I have, sitting at my elbow right now, a copy of Mythical Man-Month, as part of a mini-bookshelf of the ten books I found most influential in my career / wish to share with my co-workers. [For the curious:…
Yes, you still find articles praising first class functions in "space year 2015" because those websites were written from an Earth year 1997 perspective. Yes, maybe with Java, Python, and Ruby all having first class,…
I feel pg314 did an adequate job answering your first question -- although I would have explained it that any meta-programming macros must be, by definition, higher-order functions. The only differences are giving the…
"these are books of computer science and/or programming that when you read them you can’t quite believe that what they claim is reality." I feel that part of why these books seem so alien is that most people are taught…
"For some reason we all (especially me) had a mental block about optimization, namely that we always regarded it as a behind-the-scenes activity, to be done in the machine language, which the programmer isn't supposed…
> There isn't one game, there are infinitely many, and different people will have success at different games. But there is also the meta-game: The game of being able to win the highest variety and largest amount of…
No math proof, but I'd favor a cluster strategy as being faster to force a (partial) solution to existing clues.
> If the author means literally everyone dead, planet gone, then obviously it won't be "apocalyptic", but the science is suggesting it's likely to be really bad. No, the science doesn't imply that climate change is…
Also not in this thread until now, but two thoughts: First: A car can be "the means of production", if you're a driver for Uber/Lyft. Second: the issue I understand is that this website isn't letting one person take…
Well, for a SNES/NES/Atari/Genesis/etc. classic device, the issue might not be getting ROM images but doing so legally. Sure, I could find a torrent containing the entire NES+SNES library for making retro-Pi... but that…
Came into the comments to find this, and I'm going to expand on your description: I feel like quicksort isn't [uniquely] beautiful except when used alongside bubble sort to explain computational complexity (both big-O…
This argument seems to subtly imply that the only efficacious means to "level an uneven playing field" is government regulation, and not some other, non-government process such as boycotts. Government regulation is,…
> Which makes me ask the question: do you, gentle Hacker News reader, really want diversity of opinion and why? I speak only for myself, but the answer is an absolute, complete and emphatic YES. The reason is quite…
Came here to give the same answer. Between "Future of Programming" and the Mother of All Demos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY) I find it mindbogglingly depressing that it feels so much like the entire…
The induction hypothesis is a process in mathematics which assumes a formula for P(n) which is true, then uses this assumption and the problem definition to prove the case P(n+1). As a concrete example, take the formula…
I like to play with those sort of people by saying that the planets of the solar system are: "Mercury, Venus, Mondas, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Rupert". While one of those entries is…
> Can anyone name a language that they've grown to like more the more they learned about it? I would guess maybe only those in the LISP family would make the cut. Well, personally I've fallen in love with using FORTH…
While the meat of the article may be (somewhat) good, I take umbrage with the very first sentence: "A finite-state machine (FSM) is not really a machine, but it does have a finite number of states." A finite state…
If your conference will dis-invite / "de-platform" people based on their opinion about topic {foo}, you are in fact hosting a conference about {foo}, regardless of what your name, official agenda, or spokespeople say.…
I have, sitting at my elbow right now, a copy of Mythical Man-Month, as part of a mini-bookshelf of the ten books I found most influential in my career / wish to share with my co-workers. [For the curious:…
Yes, you still find articles praising first class functions in "space year 2015" because those websites were written from an Earth year 1997 perspective. Yes, maybe with Java, Python, and Ruby all having first class,…
I feel pg314 did an adequate job answering your first question -- although I would have explained it that any meta-programming macros must be, by definition, higher-order functions. The only differences are giving the…
"these are books of computer science and/or programming that when you read them you can’t quite believe that what they claim is reality." I feel that part of why these books seem so alien is that most people are taught…
"For some reason we all (especially me) had a mental block about optimization, namely that we always regarded it as a behind-the-scenes activity, to be done in the machine language, which the programmer isn't supposed…