ryankey

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by ryankey 14y ago
I've always attributed the excellence in mathematics to the culture and their emphasis on schooling. I have many Asian friends who grew up not knowing the language but with strict parents from these backgrounds. All of them perform above pa
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by ryankey 14y ago
Programming languages aren't explicit executable forms, they are abstractions. Unless you are working with machine code or assembly, you're getting the abstract ideas which get expanded by the compiler. What it sounds like you're advocating
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by ryankey 14y ago
Completely agree with you, but from your experience, how many fewer do both very well? I have always been interested in both and I can't imagine having one tool without the other, as they both enhance the way that I think about things. Prog
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by ryankey 14y ago
Hungarian notation for formulas would be terrible. It would make it that much harder to memorize, as well as increase the difficulty of seeing patterns between various formulas. The real problem here is trying to force programming notation
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by ryankey 14y ago
I had a similar experience switching from Java taught in college to self-teaching lisp. I essentially had to relearn everything that I knew and start looking at lisp as an entirely different beast, as most pattern matching that I did betwee
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by ryankey 14y ago
I agree that other factors would prevent students having too much power, but "good" is a very subjective term. Even "effective" depends on how the students learn. Just because I think a teacher is good for challenging me, another student mi
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by ryankey 14y ago
A lot of kids mature enough to go to scientific/programming camps are usually the ones mature enough to understand that they learn under guidelines. Also, those kids aren't being graded. As a recent high schooler, I've seen kids who absolut
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by ryankey 14y ago
"It will thus have to wait until we can make another major release." It is said in the part about breaking API that it will just have to wait unless someone wants to pay him for the development fix or for him to make a fix worthy of the st
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by ryankey 14y ago
The PHP site doesn't need a massive facelift, but honestly, this is actually a bit of a problem. The site is basically just a hosting of the resources already, why not make it easier to find things from inside the site?
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by ryankey 14y ago
People who aren't serious don't really matter, unless they become serious. The new design will alienate people who had gotten used to it and enjoyed that it was easy to find the resources they needed. Also, any language not already attracti