blintson
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I think the name should be changed, since it's not dependent on experimentation, and largely has nothing to do with the physical implementation of computers.
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??? An algorithm that executes in O(n) time executes in O(n) whether the computer is silicon, DNA, mechanical, vacuum tubes, or whatever else you build a Turing machine in. I think "computer", to most people almost always refers to the physical implementation of a computer.
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Steve Wozniak likes to do everything on his Segway.
(edibleapple.com)
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I don't think grades/school should be used for employment at all.* Grades may coincide with good skills but they are _COMPLETELY_ orthogonal.
1. Most programmers in the US go through 16 years of school. The final 8 have an effect on where you end up. Of the first four(high school) only about 1/3 of your time is spent on math/science* * . Of the final 4(at the two colleges I attended) only about 2.5 years are spent on math science. Of that 2.5 years only about 1.5 are computer-science specific. This means you're determining somebody's programming competence based on information (What college and grades) that is less than half(48%) based on math/science proficiency and less than quarter(19%) based on computer science. 2. They're subjective. Especially liberal arts(i.e. MOST of school).* * * 3.It's incredibly expensive. Computer science and math cost next to nothing, but for some reason I'm supposed to give some school 60k over 4 years to spend about a quarter of my time studying what I'm interested in. 4.If you test out of a class it doesn't count for grades. If I work very hard and do 16 weeks of calculus in 3 and take a test, I get credit. If do nothing and just ace the class I get an A to pad my transcript. This creates a DIRECT incentive to do less.* * * * * I am absolutely all for hearing about research/coding/contests I don't think schools opinions should matter at all. * * I mention high school grades because high school grades determine which school you go to. * * * Yes, math and science in high school/college can be and frequently are subjective as well. Teachers give credit for effort/showing work on problems/homework/etc. etc.. My high school algebra grade was a C despite getting 90+% right on exams because I didn't do the homework and the teacher wasn't satisfied with my explanations. |
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Does anybody else think this is really, really funny?
The Skype founders sold their company for billions of dollars and didn't sell the technology. It's kinda cool that it's two guys dicking with a massive corporation instead of the other way around.
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cached 3 months ago
I'm not a troll.
I don't think the law should have anything to do with this. He didn't do anything hard. He was only able to get away with what he did because Harvard was to lazy to verify his documents. Harvard charges $33k/semester, at that price they can afford to take the time to verify _every_ applicant's information. |
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Single quoting lets you pass a list without evaluating it.
(car (eval '(a b c))) vs. (car (a b c)) Do the same thing. Have you read SICP? Somewhere in the 1st-3rd chapter there's an explanation of first-order evaluation that scheme uses. Once you know how scheme evals sexps, it makes sense that quote skips some of the steps of evaluation. I strongly recommend the SICP/Little Schemer/Seasoned Schemer if you haven't heard of them. |
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If conveying that information in your voice is useful, it's also very useful to be able to fake it. I lifted weights in high school, went wakeboarding with people and (briefly) went to an MMA gym. I've met skinny people with deep voices and ripped people with high voices and vice versa. I wasn't able to find a link to the original study, but I think they're completely wrong, and the correlation is nonexistent or negligible.
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