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by impeachgod 7y ago
I think Alan Kay is referring to Charles Simonyi. According to Forbes, his net worth is $4.3 billion: https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-simonyi/
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by impeachgod 7y ago
I considered Virgil to be a good friend of mine for a very long time, and the last few years have been deeply saddening for me due to his increasingly bizarre beliefs and his irresponsible and inexcusable behavior, especially towards his fe
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by impeachgod 11y ago
Still waiting for the HyperCard source code to be released. I am acquainted with one of the members of the original HyperCard team, but he says his old floppies are no longer readable. :(
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by impeachgod 11y ago
Actually, the Russians developed a completely different programming language Prolog and Prol2 that had nothing to do with the French Prolog. It just happened to have the same name. Source: http://forum.oberoncore.ru/viewtopi
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by impeachgod 13y ago
But much less than against C++.
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by impeachgod 13y ago
Someone should create a Coursera clone that's not hosted in the US.
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by impeachgod 13y ago
Fortunately for us, Apple acquiring NeXT instead of Be means that we get to program iOS and OS X in Objective-C instead of C++.
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by impeachgod 14y ago
I wonder what are the advantages/disadvantages between a PEG and say, a Pratt parser ( http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/tdop.html )?
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by impeachgod 14y ago
I feel like I have to get good grades, work research projects, and develop good relationships with other students, TAs, and professors in order to become better. I find it hard to relax because I feel like I'll be mediocre and end up workin
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by impeachgod 14y ago
Do explain how and why so many CS graduates hold on to cargo-cult notions?
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by impeachgod 14y ago
So the way the OCD works is that I HAVE to have my documents formatted a certain way (e.g. characters per line), the time stamps a certain nice number, or I get super angry at myself. I HAVE to begin and finish eating, sleeping, and working
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by impeachgod 14y ago
I too am currently having the same problem. I am attending a very large state school (over 40,000 students) and I am struggling to connect with people. I also have severe depression and OCD which prevents me from getting things done. I feel
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by impeachgod 14y ago
What happened to the ebnf package?
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by impeachgod 15y ago
Inaccurate? How so?
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by impeachgod 15y ago
I have my birthday fairly late in the year, so technically when I started UCLA I was 17 years old.
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by impeachgod 15y ago
This reminds me of Richard Hamming's talk "You and Your Research": http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html "I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you
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by impeachgod 15y ago
If there is a university near you, go to the library and use the computers there.
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by impeachgod 15y ago
Eazy-E was right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfMXROZ9qvo
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by impeachgod 15y ago
Dealers of Lighting by Michael A. Hiltzik. It's a great book about the beginnings of Xerox PARC.
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by impeachgod 16y ago
I think you can only get those if you go to MIT or CMU. The vast majority of CS programs and lecturers aren't that good, and certainly worse than what you could teach yourself on your own.
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by impeachgod 16y ago
What would be more interesting, would be if he found a way to grow different fingerprints.
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by impeachgod 16y ago
This is what I don't get about Americans - they have no toasting tradition. I grew up in Ukraine, and I remember being required to give toasts at dinners ever since I was a little kid. They didn't have to be long or complex, but original an
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by impeachgod 16y ago
Actually, in the Soviet Union you used to have 3-kopek and 15-kopek coins, as well as 3-ruble notes.
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by impeachgod 16y ago
I've always been fascinated with Chuck Moore's VLSI design tools. How does he manage to design working VLSI chips with such limited functionality? Does he do complex simulation by hand? Wouldn't it get hard laying out each individual transi
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by impeachgod 16y ago
So thus we have a good reason to have more women founders - immigrant hacker-startup guys are usually male. Thus, they can just marry their US-citizen startup cofounders.
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by impeachgod 16y ago
I would too. I think it's best you make a public post about this, I think a lot of people will be interested in this.
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by impeachgod 16y ago
> does that make me a "boring tool" who can't "think creatively" and only relies on "lame rote repetition"? I strongly disagree. It does make you such. Memorization is overrated.
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by impeachgod 16y ago
What if they're outside North America or Western Europe? Some place with weaker laws?
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by impeachgod 16y ago
I tend to hold the Thoreauvian point that one ought to resist unfair laws. As I noticed, Child Protective Services are state agencies. If someone was falsely accused of child abuse/child porn, with no hope of winning the case whatsoever, ho
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by impeachgod 16y ago
So this means that we can have a safe-harbour Sourceforge or Github in New Zealand. Someone should start that service.

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