electronvolt

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   by electronvolt 16y ago

   >The first one "Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians." just sounds like bragging between academic camps. From a mathematical/proofs poi
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   by electronvolt 16y ago

   >Critics say that tenure hurts students by making professors lazy. Course loads vary widely from school to school: At some public universities, professors teach nine or 10 courses. At smaller schools, they teach as few as one or two, to
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   by electronvolt 16y ago

   To be fair, Joel makes that point. He claims that: "It may be a fine language to work in, but that's not today's topic. I would even go so far as to say that the fact that Java is not hard enough is a feature..." In my experience at UVa,
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   by electronvolt 16y ago

   Even a correlation between higher incomes and lower rates of altruism is interesting. The whole rationality/lack thereof may actually be the case (at least from my personal experiences working in lower end jobs, where the people were either