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by electronvolt 12y ago
I definitely played that map back sometime between '05 and '08. It's been a while. Being reminded that this game exists and seeing that the project is still going makes me super happy.
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by electronvolt 12y ago
I've found that I just won't learn a language or framework unless I have a clearly defined goal/project in mind, so I usually start with that. Toy or otherwise, if I don't want to build some sort of project, for which t
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by electronvolt 12y ago
>The problem is one in ten thousand still leaves a very disgruntled & disenfranchised 30,000 people in America slaving away so everyone else can do as they wish. Presumably those who were enabling the leisure of others would be reaso
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by electronvolt 12y ago
> If you do a bit of research, you might be surprised to learn that welfare queens don't exist in the vast numbers you think they do. Not anymore and not for a while. I was under the impression that they never really existed in any
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by electronvolt 12y ago
She was definitely the first person to realize the potential that Babbage's Analytic Engine had, particularly outside of just calculating things. Babbage's design, if I remember correctly, was basically an improvement on a design
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by electronvolt 13y ago
This unfortunately happens fairly routinely even at high level universities. Not always as publicly, though, but it does happen. I'm a faculty brat (professorial parents) at one of the top public universities in the nation. There are
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by electronvolt 13y ago
Drawing diagrams is one of the most useful teaching strategies I've found when people are just starting to learn pointers. I've TA'd a course that introduces students to C++, pointers, and basic data structures, and after fi
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by electronvolt 13y ago
Something that was posted on HN once or twice before was EWD 1036: "On the cruelty of really teaching computer science", by Dijkstra. It makes, in my opinion, a much more lucid argument than this article as to why a firm backgrou
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by electronvolt 13y ago
Agreed. If you have the wrong algorithm, it doesn't matter how well you implement it: it'll still give you the wrong answer. But no matter how right your algorithm is, if your I/O doesn't work properly, you'll st
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by electronvolt 13y ago
As a person currently interviewing with companies (student, graduating, etc.), I definitely wouldn't be able to commit to a week long trial process, even if paid, in the next 6-8 months. (Unless over Christmas/New Years; even the
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by electronvolt 13y ago
However, missing sleep and then driving (a rather common occurrence) is incredibly dangerous to the person doing it and others. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep-deprived_driving ) In fact, I think it's fair to
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by electronvolt 13y ago
Certain forms of affective disorders (recurrent unipolar depression, bipolar disorder) are actually best managed with consistent drug use, and there's evidence that although things like CBT can help manage symptoms (and dealing with th
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by electronvolt 13y ago
Bow ties are generally considered formal evening wear, not business attire, much like tuxedos. I'd also actually put the 2 piece suit with tie over a 3 piece suit (with or without tie) in terms of formality/business-attire-ness:
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by electronvolt 13y ago
I'm sorry that you have cancer. It's a terrible disease that nearly took a parent from me (it had metastasized before it was caught; my mother was incredibly lucky). I don't intend to trivialize it by any means, but I do th
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by electronvolt 13y ago
But you do need to read the manuals to know which flags to use/need, and moreso than #!: it's the difference between knowing apt-get and knowing the command line at a much deeper level. (I now use arch almost exclusively, but used #! until
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by electronvolt 13y ago
Particularly bad depressive episodes are similar to the flu/mono/etc.: you are incapacitated, feel like shit, and can't get anything done. Yes, they can flare up without warning: so can the flu. Yes, they can last a long time (DSM diagn
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by electronvolt 13y ago
I'd agree that there are certain movements that you really don't want to attempt without a certain amount of prerequisite flexibility, which often requires a certain amount of static stretching to achieve. However, overall flexibility seems
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by electronvolt 13y ago
Some of those issues are also addressed/worked on by feminist groups, particularly the rape one. Almost every survivor counseling organization I know of provides services to men as well as women. I'd also characterize most of those groups
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by electronvolt 14y ago
I've had an algebra professor who lectured by preparing notes for the class and then reading them and writing them on the board verbatim. After particularly difficult proofs he'd sometimes turn around to look at the class, to see if anyone
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by electronvolt 14y ago
I agree that he may have gleaned something (possibly even a substantial something) from it. As I pointed out, it's easy to learn the applied parts of differential geometry in a day or two: curvature, fundamental forms, etc. are fairly sim
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by electronvolt 14y ago
Using your marathon analogy: A marathon is usually run in about four and a half hours. The best marathon runners in the world (i.e. current record holders) ran one in about 2 hours. The university that I'm at has about 45-48 hours of class
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by electronvolt 14y ago
Given the recipe on his blog, from just carbohydrates, protein, and fat (at 4 cal/gram, 4 cal/gram, 9 cal/gram respectively), he's consuming -at least- 1585 calories a day. (It says 200 grams of carbs, 65 grams of fat, 50 grams of protein)
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by electronvolt 14y ago
However, in both cases the official made a quantitative argument, not a moral one. Some of your examples also aren't convincing: there is a lot of evidence that after controlling for socioeconomic status and other similar factors, black a
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by electronvolt 14y ago
//1. As you say, the introductory classes are enormous. For the math classes this means less feedback on your assignments. What this also means is that you have other undergrads grading your work. If that doesn't terrify you, then it should
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by electronvolt 14y ago
University of Virginia does this, too, although they often just work under the professor that teaches the class. It's a great experience, all told, since you get really fluent in the class material, and great at debugging if you're in a lo
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by electronvolt 14y ago
If someone already had coding experience, definitely. Without it: probably still possible if they're smart and working on it for most of the time (so 5-8 hours a day). It's surprising how quickly smart people can learn if they're intereste
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by electronvolt 14y ago
I'd second the splitting of self into an analytic side and a emotional side being helpful as a short term coping mechanism, but I would caution against taking it too far. It is great as a short term buffer against letting your state get th
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by electronvolt 14y ago
I actually made a similar observation to this in high school, and promptly used what money I could to get myself a crappy netbook. (I also didn't really have that much disposable income back then, just what I made working retail) An observ
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by electronvolt 14y ago
Except that you'd get rather unintuitive results: recursion seems to tie nicely to algebra, while iteration seems to tie nicely to analysis (algebra: see group actions, modules, lattice decompositions, analysis: many proofs require chaini
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by electronvolt 14y ago
As a current student (undergraduate; CS/Math), and the son of two faculty members (Music/English) I'll agree with this. Every faculty member involved in some sort of administration that I know (both parents, multiple family friends, and pe

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