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True | BeatLeJuce | null | It should state clearer that it uses CUDA. Even though that is of course the popular choice, I'd love to see an OpenCL course. | null | 0 | 1316193207 | False | 0 | c2kclr1 | t3_khryi | null | t1_c2kclr1 | t3_khryi | null | 1427608430 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KyteM | null | But even if it doesn't work cross-platform (dunno, you wanna use WinForms/QT/whatever's native) it makes porting *really easy*. It's kinda like how XNA lets you make games for Windows, XBox and WP7. Sure, not all the capabilities are there for all platforms, but they're close enough you can build a single core and abstract the details (like GUI) to separate, easy-to-manage, OS-specific projects.
And FYI: Microsoft employees (WinDiv included) do happen to use Linux too. I won't bother looking for blogs, but it's there. If they can use Linux, they can use Mono. | null | 0 | 1316193286 | False | 0 | c2kcm7f | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2kcm7f | t1_c2ka4bj | null | 1427608433 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donkey_lz | null | > Also, your father sounds like Feynman's father.
He has a gift for explaining things, which I like to think that I have inherited. The thing that probably proved to be most important is that he really didn't spare me any of the scientific hardships. I never even once heard a superficial answer from him, regardless of what I asked. He also had an incredible patience. Answering non-trivial questions from a fiver year-old is *not* an easy task, and I wasn't sparing him any questions either. Try to explain a five year-old kid how we know that the moon is round or how do we know how far away the Sun is from us. Seriously, I think it's the only thing more frustrating than filling in tax reports.
The other lovely thing he did is that he never hesitated to admit he didn't know something when he didn't know. He'd explain to me all that he knew, and at one point he'd just go like well... past this I'm not really sure -- but here's a book about it. | null | 0 | 1316193432 | False | 0 | c2kcn0k | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcn0k | t1_c2kb2ay | null | 1427608452 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbified | null | His association with Gosper goes a *long* way towards explaining the topic selection I see on his blog. Continued fractions, the old "munching squares" demo, attractor basin fractals, IFS, L-systems and plane-filling curves, Life and other cellular automata — all are things that Gosper has been involved in :) | null | 0 | 1316193466 | False | 0 | c2kcn76 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcn76 | t1_c2kbt2j | null | 1428193899 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | boobsbr | null | solve division problems using the chainsaw bayonet! | null | 0 | 1316193476 | False | 0 | c2kcn90 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcn90 | t1_c2ka65t | null | 1427608458 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KyteM | null | How many times have we gone through this? **Read the other fucking comments.**
It's C++ with Component Extensions. C++/CLI-style syntax, compiles down to native C++. Once released, the pure-C++ equivalents will (very probably) show up.
My guess? A "ref class" will be a C++ object inherited from Platform::Object that uses RAII for its refcounting scheme. | null | 0 | 1316193528 | False | 0 | c2kcnjs | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2kcnjs | t1_c2kafie | null | 1427608456 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hatef12 | null | not to be mean, but he is a cunt! that is all | null | 0 | 1316193625 | False | 0 | c2kco2j | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kco2j | t3_khf6j | null | 1427608462 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316193696 | False | 0 | c2kcohm | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2kcohm | t1_c2kb6sh | null | 1427608465 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | I don't think it is all that unusual. Maybe in terms of sheer numbers it might be, but our society is aggressively anti-intellectual. At 13 years old, a kid has all of the neurobiology at their disposal as they will ever have. They are capable of learning anything they will ever be capable of learning. The only thing they are lacking is experience. Kids gain knowledge through experience. Most kids are absolutely starved for experience because their parents think that proper parenting consists of actively preventing development. They control everything the kid has access to, filter their Internet access, only permit them to participate in adult-mediated activities, etc. That turns a kid into an incapable, uninterested lout. Childhood and adolescence exist in the state they do because evolution produced us as animals so that our brains DEPEND upon that adventurous, unwise, enthusiastic nature. They don't develop properly without it. | null | 0 | 1316193893 | False | 0 | c2kcpk9 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcpk9 | t1_c2ka00n | null | 1427608475 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donkey_lz | null | > I'm an embedded software engineer as well, and I can relate to a lot of what you said, but I don't really think much of that is out of the ordinary. I think maybe the brightest 1-2% of humans or so all share that kind of insight from an early age.
Yea, that's what I think, too. I never thought of myself as an incredibly gifted kid who's going to rock the world. Back in elementary school I remember realizing, at some point, that I tend to learn things faster and easier than most of my colleagues, but that was it. I also had a fair share of disinterest in most academic achievements. I graduated with very good marks, but not first; was a good student, but academically not the best.
> Now this kid in the linked article...he appears to be in the top 0.00001%. I mean he is really on a completely different level than you or I.
Definitely! On the other hand, don't be tempted to see things as being "very hard" just because one can't grasp them. Most of my colleagues know far less about electronics than I do (but are very good coders -- better than me, most likely) and openly display their amazement at how I can look at a schematic and understand what it does in a couple of seconds. But I can testify it's *not hard*, and it's certainly not because I'm a prodigy of electronics. Chuck Moore is a prodigy of engineering; I'm a smart kid who learned how to use the soldering iron at an early age and then graduated an engineering program.
The same really goes for math. Objectively speaking, it's probably not much harder than what we do -- but pin me a tail and call me a donkey if I can solve a simple number theory problem. Okay, so I understand most of the concepts and can grasp the subtle, fascinating points behind them, but I just don't work in the frame of mind required to do original work in that field (read: if there's nothing I can burn, I suck at it). | null | 0 | 1316193910 | False | 0 | c2kcpo9 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcpo9 | t1_c2kash5 | null | 1427608476 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | More succinctly stated, "premature optimization is the root of all evil".
It's extremely important to note, however, that "premature" optimization is not "all" optimization. | null | 0 | 1316193933 | False | 0 | c2kcpsq | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2kcpsq | t1_c2ka38z | null | 1427608478 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | Were any of her students permitted to read ANYTHING they wanted? I've always presumed that my writing skills came from the fact that I read a great deal. In Elementary school, the library was broken up into grade-appropriate sections. It was bullshit. If you were in 4th grade and wanted to read a 6th grade book, you were prohibited. Unless you were in the gifted class, that is, then you could read anything you wanted. It's no surprise to me that kids show no interest in reading if they're being handed Harry Potter in 6th grade when they want to be reading Stephen King's "It." In 8th grade, they're going to want to read Tropic of Cancer or Naked Lunch... but teachers toss Grapes of Wrath at them. If there's nothing of interest to them that they are permitted to read, how are they supposed to pick up how language works? The broken-up over-analyzed crap they shovel at you in English class is no help. | null | 0 | 1316194094 | False | 0 | c2kcqp8 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcqp8 | t1_c2kapwi | null | 1427608490 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zarutian | null | Thanks, I can never remember how it is spelled correctly. | null | 0 | 1316194104 | False | 0 | c2kcqrh | t3_kfvm7 | null | t1_c2kcqrh | t1_c2kaj5h | null | 1427608490 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NanoStuff | null | I think the real take-aways are the API-oblivious concepts, so it's worth reading in any case.
Fortunately for me I program in CUDA so it's easy to say :) | null | 0 | 1316194150 | False | 0 | c2kcr03 | t3_khryi | null | t1_c2kcr03 | t1_c2kclr1 | null | 1427608494 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | omervk | null | We'd love to have that on [plaintextoffenders.com](http://plaintextoffenders.com), if you're willing to submit it :)
(edited to linkify the url) | null | 0 | 1316194262 | True | 0 | c2kcrkv | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcrkv | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608502 | 265 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kettlecorn | null | I distinctly remember thinking when I was ages 10 - 15 that adults underestimate childrens' minds and I must never forget that and lose that perspective.
As a 10 or 11 year old I was extremely active on the Nintendo Nsider forums. I never mentioned my age, and remember never having anyone notice I was any different. I wish there was some sort of backup of those forums so I could go back and see what sort of stuff I posted.
At age 13-14-ish I taught myself programming in Netlogo and after my first day with the language I had created a game. Over the course of a year I programmed on and off in it and created numerous games and a procedural art program. [My first uploaded art image](http://ijay.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d10ttt3)
Adults have some warped perspective of what children can accomplish. As a consequence, children, who believe most of what adults say, also believe they cannot accomplish much of any significance. | null | 0 | 1316194284 | False | 0 | c2kcrpo | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcrpo | t1_c2kachz | null | 1427608513 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sparr | null | I was copying BASIC programs out of magazines when I was 5. That was a great start. I was writing my own small games from pieces, and then from scratch, when I was 6. I didn't "graduate" to other languages until I was around 10, but by the time I was exposed to C I was programming more proficiently than most people twice my age. Yes, it's easily possible. | null | 0 | 1316194316 | False | 0 | c2kcrvp | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcrvp | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427608505 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IVE | null | The title, at first, led me to believe that AppCode was available to use on iOS devices. | null | 0 | 1316194328 | False | 0 | c2kcrxz | t3_khqu6 | null | t1_c2kcrxz | t3_khqu6 | null | 1427608507 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Vulpyne | null | Don't just silently ignore it at least. There are some reasons why you might want to catch it, for example an application that does some sort of critical processing where you *must* attempt to save some data or preserve some functionality.
In a game silently ignoring SIGSEGV/SIGBUS is horrible programming process. It's like putting a band-aid on any injury you receive. Band-aid on a cut finger is fine. Band-aid on brain cancer, well, eventually you pay the price. | null | 0 | 1316194330 | False | 0 | c2kcrye | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2kcrye | t1_c2kc9n4 | null | 1427608507 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | Your experience is a good example of why kids should not be blockaded out of participating online. Online is the PERFECT place for kids to spread their wings and try things out. There are no repercussions. If someone chews you out - it's letters on a screen. No big deal. You cannot be hurt by words, or images, or videos, or anything you can find online. It's just electronic signals and ideas. The most pure intellectual playground possible. Parents and others who are afraid of children getting 'hurt' by things online really need to step back and realize - locking the kids in a cage, controlling everything they see, read, hear, play, etc is ACTUAL harm. Seeing something upsetting online is not actual harm. It's stimulus to learn and to adapt. | null | 0 | 1316194356 | False | 0 | c2kcs3s | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcs3s | t1_c2kachz | null | 1427608508 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | peepsalot | null | brb, printing labels | null | 0 | 1316194361 | False | 0 | c2kcs4z | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcs4z | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608508 | 231 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ksnap | null | This article is the John Madden of how-to's. | null | 0 | 1316194364 | False | 0 | c2kcs5m | t3_khlcd | null | t1_c2kcs5m | t1_c2kayql | null | 1427608509 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316194366 | False | 0 | c2kcs61 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcs61 | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427608509 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | I would just like to point out that there's a massive difference between a language being universally reviled and a language being technically inappropriate for the purpose at hand. Java is more the former than the latter (though not entirely either one). | null | 0 | 1316194395 | False | 0 | c2kcsc3 | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2kcsc3 | t1_c2k55rf | null | 1427608511 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wesw02 | null | First off, congrats on being in the top 1% of people who actually use a safe password. Now, I hope you haven't ruined your streak by not changing your password before submitting this picture. | null | 0 | 1316194424 | False | 0 | c2kcsh3 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcsh3 | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608513 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donkey_lz | null | > I might even go a step further and claim that curiosity is a defining trait of humanity.
*This*. The moment I'll stop being curious, I hope something big falls on my head and crushes me. | null | 0 | 1316194459 | False | 0 | c2kcsny | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcsny | t1_c2kc2uq | null | 1427608516 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hechacker1 | null | I don't think it's any secret. You need dedicated parents who teach their kids and put up with endless questions.
My siblings and I all understood the alphabet and how to read by the time we started kindergarten. This was because my parents took their time to read us anything we wanted. Slowly we read back to them. It amazing how quick you start associating the symbols of our language with the words on the page. Before you know it, you've memorized your favorite story.
The English subject was always easy for my siblings, and we always read above the expected grade level. But other subjects? Like math? Where my parents had far less experience, it was no surprise we didn't have a good grasp of it. By the time I was in Middle School, I had surpassed my parent's ability to help me with math. | null | 0 | 1316194505 | False | 0 | c2kcsw7 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcsw7 | t1_c2kahbj | null | 1427608519 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Atheuz | null | > For you second point : I tried to add arrows, but it cluttered the map too much. I might try to add triangles on the arrows, but honestly, it is quite difficult to get it right on svg (that said, writing this, I may have thought of a solution).
For showing the direction of migration you could use colors instead of arrows. Red for emigration, green for immigration. | null | 0 | 1316194525 | False | 0 | c2kct0l | t3_kgjcg | null | t1_c2kct0l | t1_c2k9ucl | null | 1427608520 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Programming is not a synonym for computer science.
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True | BuzzBadpants | null | Triangles are triangles, but even using the same shader, they are not all equal. The more fragments that must be drawn for a particular triangle, the more time it will take, so orientation and position *does* affect the performance. However, every pixel in the frame buffer needs to be drawn anyways. If you have proper occlusion query logic, then each pixel should be drawn approximately once, so in amortized time it shouldn't matter. | null | 0 | 1316194665 | False | 0 | c2kctse | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2kctse | t1_c2k7i9g | null | 1427608529 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | I don't think he was claiming that a 13yo couldn't have this kids level of mastery - just that he likely gained it from reading a good deal. At 12 I was reading Stephen King novels like candy, and I imagine more kids would be interested in reading if they were allowed to explore books that actually interest them, not ones that are 'age appropriate' for them.
I think probably one of the most important things in this kids life is that he didn't have an adult hovering over his shoulder telling him to slow down, telling him he needed to go outside and play, telling him that he should be reading the same things his friends are reading, or, worst of all, telling him that something is too hard for a kid his age to grasp.
I started programming in BASIC on a Vic-20 at age 9. If someone had told me 'computer programming is hard, and most adults can't even do it', I never would have even tried. Adults don't realize - the things that are hard for an adult are not necessarily hard for a child. Much of your prior experience holds you back. Children don't have that problem, they are still learning and adapting their entire worldview every day (if they are permitted to have experience with different views and experiences). The best thing an adult can do for a kid is make sure they are physically safe, teach them that there is no such thing as a dangerous idea, help them get ahold of anything that interests them and encourage them to challenge themselves. But most of all... get out of the way. | null | 0 | 1316194680 | False | 0 | c2kcttl | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcttl | t1_c2kahbj | null | 1427608529 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | This is true, but I think that the author here is talking mostly about computer science. | null | 0 | 1316194718 | False | 0 | c2kcu2t | t3_khrn6 | null | t1_c2kcu2t | t1_c2kctdw | null | 1427608533 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | monocasa | null | But in that example, not testing false means we don't show the null pointer exception that false makes happen. It's still 50%. | null | 0 | 1316194718 | False | 0 | c2kcu2u | t3_khhdj | null | t1_c2kcu2u | t1_c2kcci1 | null | 1427608533 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316194811 | False | 0 | c2kcukq | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2kcukq | t3_khkyd | null | 1427608540 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | i can't accept the truth of this in regards to mathematics and computer science. musical prodigies is one thing, as the ability to dryly perform music is a mechanical process, but to develop in depth knowledge of maths and computer science is an entirely different thing that requires more than better than usual training.
edit: and to clarify a little bit. there's a large difference between a prodigy like mozart and the kids you see on youtube playing mozart. both had strict parents who pushed their children. one had an amazing aptitude for feats of the mind related to music at a young age and the other plays music like a wind up box. | null | 0 | 1316194826 | True | 0 | c2kcuo4 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcuo4 | t1_c2kax93 | null | 1427608541 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316194882 | False | 0 | c2kcuz2 | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2kcuz2 | t3_khkyd | null | 1427608545 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paranoidray | null | Hm, I think this is too easy.
Try writing a real math expression parser for this:
4+7*3² | null | 0 | 1316194957 | False | 0 | c2kcvet | t3_kh9sr | null | t1_c2kcvet | t3_kh9sr | null | 1427608551 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metadave | null | If I had written this list:
* Learn and apply math
* Learn how to test
* Learn many tools and languages (ie. different ways of solving problems)
* Use whatever tools you work best with. Skip the IDE if you work better without. I believe this is why some schools are using Racket instead of Java now.
* Practice creative problem solving
* Learn from others
* Read lots of good AND bad code. Be sure to recognize the bad code :-) | null | 0 | 1316195019 | False | 0 | c2kcvq1 | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2kcvq1 | t3_khkyd | null | 1427608555 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raydeen | null | All I saw was **********. | null | 0 | 1316195034 | False | 0 | c2kcvub | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcvub | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608556 | 138 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ceolceol | null | Just in case anyone is wondering: his source code is [here](http://neilbickford.com/source.txt). I'd like some legitimate discussion of his code. | null | 0 | 1316195145 | False | 0 | c2kcwg5 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcwg5 | t3_khf6j | null | 1427608568 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hackersword | null | Maybe they (you) should start looking at the people and the management involved as possible for "all the delays it took to get FF4 out".
>The browser market is fiercely competitive
So alienating your customer base with a bone headed move is SURE to instill confidence in your skills, after admittedly having a long delay prior.
I can link you many forum discussions here on reddit and elsewhere that this is a straw that broke the camels back for many people and now that chrome has better dev tools they are moving onto better pastures. | null | 0 | 1316195204 | False | 0 | c2kcwqv | t3_kghid | null | t1_c2kcwqv | t1_c2kch23 | null | 1427608569 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imareddituserhooray | null | Someone needs to make a computer society that's like a code of ethics. Belonging to it would imply that as a coder you would not do something as incredibly stupid as that. | null | 0 | 1316195324 | False | 0 | c2kcxdp | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcxdp | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608578 | 50 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | horizon | null | http://xkcd.com/936/ | null | 0 | 1316195364 | False | 0 | c2kcxkq | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcxkq | t1_c2kcsh3 | null | 1427608580 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OceanSpray | null | He worded it badly. The Either data type is completely type safe, and far more so than Go's pseudo-tuple thing. Returning an (Either t1 t2) forces the programmer to have to handle both cases safely. | null | 0 | 1316195428 | False | 0 | c2kcxxh | t3_k9ud6 | null | t1_c2kcxxh | t1_c2ir2jj | null | 1427608584 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abel3616 | null | I hear everyone complaining about the real name policy, but using a name such as 'bluehicky52' turns it into a trashy forum where everyone is running around being anon and obnoxious.
Google+ is aiming to compete with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (the new g+ professional stuff...), etc... 'dirtychav_forteen' has no place in such an environment.
EDIT: I'd be curious to know what uses it would have | null | 0 | 1316195472 | False | 0 | c2kcy61 | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2kcy61 | t1_c2kakj6 | null | 1427608587 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | But not wildly technically superior by any account. On the other hand, I would argue that Debian is closer to a meritocracy than a true democracy, anyway. | null | 0 | 1316195474 | False | 0 | c2kcy6d | t3_kghid | null | t1_c2kcy6d | t1_c2kce10 | null | 1427608588 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | Learning is fun. It borders on addiction-level pleasure.
Most kids are just actively punished and prevented from learning anything that interests them for so long by adults that their spirit gets broken and they just give up.
Even when playing videogames and such though, most of the enjoyments the kids are having is learning - learning how the system of the game is setup, how to game the system to score the most points, explore the fictional universe to learn what is over the next hill, etc, etc. Sure, learning real stuff is better, but kids are mostly forbidden from doing that. | null | 0 | 1316195481 | False | 0 | c2kcy7v | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcy7v | t1_c2kakui | null | 1427608588 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | this is pretty spot on. the real difference between those who can maintain very in depth intellectual pursuits and those who cannot comes down to motivation and the ability to transition your modes of learning. i'm certainly no prodigy, but when i was younger, i only needed to have some algorithmic process or proof demonstrated to me and i would immediately remember and know it. this lasted throughout high school and to a further degree in my early 20s. i still constantly study mathematics, but i now have to sit and copy out a proof and take the time to reinforce the relationships between the concepts, then i need to recreate the proof from memory shortly after, and then i need to wait some time and revisit the theorem to try to solve the proof logically from scratch. if i cannot, for whatever reason, come up with a sufficient proof, then i need to start over. this process seems like it misses the flash, but it is like a slowed down, externalized method from what i envision happened very quickly and internally before. it also now greatly helps in developing and proving new theorems. granted, the material is now exponentially more complex, in that it rests upon more powerful mathematics from a broader range of fields, but i'm completely confident that the slowness of how i learn compared to my youth is not due to the complexity of the material and simply due to the physical changes in the brain that occur with age. | null | 0 | 1316195481 | False | 0 | c2kcy7w | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcy7w | t1_c2kb30z | null | 1427608588 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316195527 | False | 0 | c2kcygb | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcygb | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608591 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imaskat | null | <OGRE>NEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDSSSSSS!</OGRE> | null | 0 | 1316195555 | False | 0 | c2kcymh | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcymh | t3_khf6j | null | 1427608593 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316195558 | False | 0 | c2kcyn3 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kcyn3 | t1_c2kcvub | null | 1427608593 | 110 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ProdigySim | null | IIRC, the DMCA permits reverse-engineering when it's used for interoperability. Reverse engineered codecs are usually considered safe. (At least within the US!) | null | 0 | 1316195569 | False | 0 | c2kcyp7 | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2kcyp7 | t1_c2k92yo | null | 1427608593 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | Keep in mind, when you say "going outside" today, you mean "going outside with your mom no more than 5 feet from you at all times". And when you say "playing sports" you mean "playing sports organized by a properly background-checked adult".
Kids aren't permitted to just go out and throw together a neighborhood game. They're not even allowed to just go out hiking or do anything without adult supervision and control. | null | 0 | 1316195571 | False | 0 | c2kcyps | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcyps | t1_c2kapar | null | 1427608595 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | He will likely have a great deal of trouble with school. School despises specialized experts. You want to learn everything there is to know about computer science? Sorry, your GPA says you need to take wood shop and persian history. | null | 0 | 1316195645 | False | 0 | c2kcz54 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcz54 | t1_c2kakqi | null | 1427608600 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_Make_This_Shit_Up | null | it is a subset of computer science if you do it properly. | null | 0 | 1316195679 | False | 0 | c2kczbd | t3_khrn6 | null | t1_c2kczbd | t1_c2kctdw | null | 1427608602 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shazbadam | null | It looks like this is the page he got to directly from submitting the login form, so it doesn't mean that they're storing the password in plaintext. Plus, it's SSL. So the only real worry is the dude looking over your shoulder. | null | 0 | 1316195689 | False | 0 | c2kczdy | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kczdy | t1_c2kcrkv | null | 1427608613 | 58 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dcramps | null | It's okay, they're using https. | null | 0 | 1316195703 | False | 0 | c2kczha | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kczha | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608613 | 483 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daveisanidiot | null | that was difficult to read. | null | 0 | 1316195722 | False | 0 | c2kczl1 | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2kczl1 | t3_khip6 | null | 1427608607 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | What if my lyrics are actually better?
A long time ago, I hung out on the Freenet project a lot, and there was an effort to try to get its Java code to work on gcj. The result of this effort was to find a lot of bugs in gcj. (Not that this story applies to mature compilers, of course.) | null | 0 | 1316195761 | False | 0 | c2kczsf | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2kczsf | t1_c2kcduw | null | 1428193897 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | how old are you? because for myself it wasn't my teen years that my ability to learn material changed. i understood and did some of my best work in my late teens and early 20s. it was around my early 20s, however, that i noticed material didn't immediately absorb.
i'm almost 30 now, and i've had to adapt a method of learning that requires a longer studying process than just reading the material. | null | 0 | 1316195768 | False | 0 | c2kcztq | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcztq | t1_c2kc3p9 | null | 1427608613 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donkey_lz | null | I'll be posting another reply -- I was at work when I posted the other one, was short on time, and of course the story about me was my priority. This one, however, might be a bit more interesting :-).
I naturally came in contact with a lot of smart kids when I was a little child. Back in school, I knew a guy, two or three years older than me, who was incredibly gifted with foreign languages. He was in sixth grade and was already fluent in English, French, Latin and German and was a competent German and Serbian speaker, all of which he had learned by himself. He was very good at math, too. This guy was a freakin' genius as far as I'm concerned.
When I say he had a gift for languages, I mean it. We had the same French teacher and I'd sometimes sit in his class after mine was over. I remember how at one point, the teacher was explaining some weird exception (the kind we get in English where the plural of house is houses, but the plural of mouse is mice), and this kid stared at the blackboard for a few seconds and asked why. I hated any kind of grammar. I am fluent in English (although it's my second language), but I don't know much about its grammar. Hell, I don't know much about the grammar of my *native* language, even though I speak and write it impeccably; studied it in school, hated it with a passion, was among the first things I forgot.
So naturally, imagine my amazement at hearing that it was actually a very valid question, with a very valid answer (which was not "it's because the French hated consistency just as much as I hate their language"), which the teacher actually explained to him after taking a few minutes to remember it from her university courses.
The kid didn't really have any sort of formal knowledge of linguistics -- he had learned those languages just like anyone usually learns a foreign language on their own. He did push on though; right now he is a professional linguist.
How he does it is a mystery to me -- he simply has an intuition for this sort of things, just like I have an intuition for electronics, and can "feel" his way through the grammar just like I can "feel" my way through a circuit. | null | 0 | 1316195773 | False | 0 | c2kczut | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kczut | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427608613 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthiasB | null | > let alone GADTs
F# has subtyping and parametric types so it shouldn't be a problem to basically get GADTs.
| null | 0 | 1316195790 | False | 0 | c2kczys | t3_kful5 | null | t1_c2kczys | t1_c2k1k90 | null | 1427608615 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | Yes, he used an existing algorithm. But, he was wise (or lucky) enough to actually bother to take a brute-force approach. Most computer scientists or mathematicians would have seen this problem and said 'yeah, I could do it... but why?' As a kid, he has a grasp on the 'because I can, and because no one else has.' | null | 0 | 1316195815 | False | 0 | c2kd03m | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd03m | t1_c2kadtg | null | 1427608617 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vph | null | For one thing, he doesn't start a sentence with "Like". | null | 0 | 1316195842 | False | 0 | c2kd08w | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd08w | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427608618 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metarugia | null | Holy shit that hurt my head. I was not prepared for that. | null | 0 | 1316195881 | False | 0 | c2kd0fm | t3_khryi | null | t1_c2kd0fm | t3_khryi | null | 1428193895 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | If you consider the general population of 13 year old boys, then yeah, he's a major outlier that you would reasonably find hard to believe if you had not encountered such kids before.
However, if you consider the population of 13 year old boys that are going to end up at Caltech or MIT or some similar place when they go to college, he's still impressive in that population, but not an outlier. | null | 0 | 1316195918 | False | 0 | c2kd0ms | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd0ms | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427608632 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | as someone who was always great at mathematics and still studies it, i am fully confident that there is a genetic predisposition involved that differentiates between someone who can become an expert in a field and someone who is a verified genius. i'm of the opinion everyone can become a part of an intellectual field and contribute with the right environments throughout their development, but not everyone can become an euler or gauss. | null | 0 | 1316195926 | False | 0 | c2kd0oj | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd0oj | t1_c2kc2uq | null | 1427608625 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KyteM | null | No necessarily. In general, as you progress, you move onto an environment suitable to your level. And unless you're truly way out there of the bell curve, you'll find yourself with many others with your level. A smart high schooler will go to a top university, where many smart high-schoolers will congregate. There, a brilliant college student will probably go to a highly-competitive field or a graduate degree, both of which will be populated with people like himself. Etc.
The end result is the impression of worsening intelligence. | null | 0 | 1316195947 | True | 0 | c2kd0si | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd0si | t1_c2kcgyn | null | 1427608626 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imareddituserhooray | null | https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm | null | 0 | 1316195978 | False | 0 | c2kd0yy | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kd0yy | t1_c2kcxkq | null | 1427608630 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | I think he's not very precoscious. But that most children are forcibly developmentally delayed. Evolution produced human beings to be striking out, breaking away from our parents, and starting to form our own families around 13. Neuroscience doesn't lie, at 13 your brain is extremely capable. The reason the 13 year olds we run into are mostly idiots is because we take great pains to keep them ignorant as long as possible. Step back and stop holding them back, and most all kids his age would be like this. Of course, it would also make them smarter than many of the adults who were raised being held back like this in their formative years... | null | 0 | 1316195980 | False | 0 | c2kd0z7 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd0z7 | t1_c2katlq | null | 1427608630 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | it doesn't work on ubuntu :(( | null | 0 | 1316196026 | False | 0 | c2kd18c | t3_khtuh | null | t1_c2kd18c | t3_khtuh | null | 1428193895 | -31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StrangeWill | null | > Then I took a picture of a dual monitor, dual keyboard, and dual mouse setup. I made the distinction between pairing and watching someone work. I explained how ping-pong-pair-programming worked.
Oh so basically working on the same project but being within yelling (or striking) distance. It was actually a group of 3 of us at my last job, we argued a lot, and it made for good software.
I love that environment. ;) I'm sad that at my new job we have cube land. | null | 0 | 1316196082 | False | 0 | c2kd1je | t3_kfrer | null | t1_c2kd1je | t3_kfrer | null | 1427608636 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dfranke | null | There are all kinds of good reasons for a non-buggy application to cause and handle SIGSEGV and then continue gracefully. http://libsigsegv.sourceforge.net/#Whatis lists a few. | null | 0 | 1316196153 | False | 0 | c2kd1wc | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2kd1wc | t1_c2kcrye | null | 1427608643 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | his sentences are perfectly cromulent. | null | 0 | 1316196153 | False | 0 | c2kd1wj | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd1wj | t1_c2kasgq | null | 1427608643 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | rohypnol? | null | 0 | 1316196168 | False | 0 | c2kd1zd | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd1zd | t1_c2kbrp1 | null | 1427608643 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm not getting anything in Nightly on OS X on Snow Leopard. | null | 0 | 1316196194 | False | 0 | c2kd24c | t3_khn6y | null | t1_c2kd24c | t1_c2kbitn | null | 1427608645 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | illvm | null | It's amazing what you can accomplish if you can focus. Many of us have far too many distractions and eventually lose the motivation to do anything else. Think about what you could accomplish in 5-6 years if you didn't have to worry about:
- Food
- Shelter
- Clothing
- Income
- Expenses
- Supporting other people
- Anything else the typical adult worries in modern society
I mean... I was programming in AMOS on my A500+ when I was 6. Now I can hardly convince myself to stop playing video games and drinking after working for 8-10 hours each day so I can work on some start up ideas. | null | 0 | 1316196217 | False | 0 | c2kd288 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd288 | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427608647 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Craysh | null | Remember: Let The Right One In... | null | 0 | 1316196278 | False | 0 | c2kd2kl | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd2kl | t1_c2k9zqb | null | 1427608650 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | I took a stab at solving the given sliding puzzle, and 132 moves appears to be the right answer, if we count moving a single block multiple steps as a single move (otherwise, the puzzle requires 180 single-step moves).
[Here's an animated gif of the solution.](http://hell.student.utwente.nl/files/reddit/2011-09-16-bickford/anim.gif)
However, I think Bickford is a better mathematician than he is a programmer, if his program required 48 days (!) to run. My [Python script](http://hell.student.utwente.nl/files/reddit/2011-09-16-bickford/puzzle.py) takes just a few seconds. Still very impressive for a 13-year-old to solve this at all, of course! | null | 0 | 1316196303 | False | 0 | c2kd2qk | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd2qk | t3_khf6j | null | 1427608652 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Koreija | null | That's the usual problem. Without a CS degree you are not able to write efficent and correct programs or even a specification. All you get is UML crap, bloaty software, OOP and lots of errors. But with degree you're not interested in boring everday problems of a typical programmer job. "Large swe projects" often just get large, because most people never learnt to divide their problems. | null | 0 | 1316196316 | False | 0 | c2kd2t6 | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2kd2t6 | t1_c2kc1y5 | null | 1427608652 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yellowjacketcoder | null | You're confusing block and branch coverage (block coverage being similar to statement coverage but simplified). Any conditions will have at least 2 branches (you really only have more for switch statements). Draw the CFD and this will be obvious. | null | 0 | 1316196348 | False | 0 | c2kd2zh | t3_khhdj | null | t1_c2kd2zh | t1_c2kcci1 | null | 1427608664 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | misplaced_my_pants | null | >it's unfortunately all genetics and environment when you boil it down far enough.
Well what else is there? Doesn't that cover every variable? | null | 0 | 1316196353 | False | 0 | c2kd30o | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd30o | t1_c2katlq | null | 1427608664 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316196402 | False | 0 | c2kd3au | t3_k9ud6 | null | t1_c2kd3au | t1_c2ip04c | null | 1427608658 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ZEFninja | null | well at least reddit censors your password when you type it. my password is *********
he yuk yukyuk | null | 0 | 1316196445 | False | 0 | c2kd3jh | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kd3jh | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608669 | -25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | you do realize that one of the main methods for learning advanced maths is from reading, correct? | null | 0 | 1316196458 | False | 0 | c2kd3mo | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd3mo | t1_c2kahgh | null | 1427608669 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raydeen | null | Yeah. *******. | null | 0 | 1316196504 | False | 0 | c2kd3t7 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kd3t7 | t1_c2kcyn3 | null | 1427608667 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codebolt | null | No, I'm definitely impressed, but this wouldn't be news if it wasn't for his age. He hasn't done anything so intellectually challenging that I couldn't have done it myself given a day or two (but not at 13 though). | null | 0 | 1316196529 | False | 0 | c2kd411 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd411 | t1_c2kc5sf | null | 1427608681 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | to be fair, most of the mathematical greats did their best works around the ages 19-22. | null | 0 | 1316196548 | False | 0 | c2kd44q | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd44q | t1_c2kck1t | null | 1427608681 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Even Star Trek movies, odd Windows releases. | null | 0 | 1316196699 | False | 0 | c2kd4xd | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2kd4xd | t1_c2k22at | null | 1427608685 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bnr | null | was not sure if you were agreeing or not. [seems like you are.](http://imgur.com/rnxOJ) | null | 0 | 1316196775 | False | 0 | c2kd5d2 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kd5d2 | t1_c2kd0yy | null | 1427608692 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The ACM's code of ethics applies.
http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics | null | 0 | 1316196802 | False | 0 | c2kd5ik | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kd5ik | t1_c2kcxdp | null | 1427608694 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | >from one of the greatest mathematicians and programmers of all time.
the first claim is quite the extraordinary one; the second seems more applicable. | null | 0 | 1316196844 | False | 0 | c2kd5qj | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd5qj | t1_c2kbt2j | null | 1427608696 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shadow2531 | null | It works in Opera too. But, I couldn't resist enabling all the blocks and broke the sound. Opera kind of froze a bit too when doing that. | null | 0 | 1316196850 | False | 0 | c2kd5rb | t3_khn6y | null | t1_c2kd5rb | t1_c2kb9ez | null | 1427608696 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | The null pointer exception highlights the difference between code coverage and code confidence. Using Cobertura or similar is only the start. You have to have code reviews that make sure that you are testing the right things, like passing in null and empty strings into methods that accept them. | null | 0 | 1316196874 | False | 0 | c2kd5wh | t3_khhdj | null | t1_c2kd5wh | t3_khhdj | null | 1427608697 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MIDIprincess | null | ugh. shit like this just really... bothers me. like a dissonant chord, or something. it just *irks* me. | null | 0 | 1316196938 | False | 0 | c2kd691 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kd691 | t3_khtwb | null | 1427608699 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | It already does. Videogames are complex interconnected systems which require experiment to learn the rules of the system, then players have to figure out how to maximize for certain outcomes. What kids are learning has more to do with how they are taught to see the world than anything else. They are taught not to ask too many questions, not to look too deep, not to try to understand things too exactly, not to expect anyone to know anything, not to rely on reason and logic too much. If a person is taught critical thinking, and to rely on their reason rather than intuition, anything they look at is deep. Just look at it right, and you can learn from most anything (although it is easiest to learn from things filled with novel experiences to you).
Looking at Gears of War - why do the player characters and other characters look like they do? What type of message is the creator trying to send with the storyline? Are they teaching that military force is the only 'true' power that can protect people? You are limited in what you can do in the game, is that a limit of the design, or was it meant to make a statement? Or, how does the rendering subsystem work? How about the code that processes your finger movements and translates it into changes in game state on screen? What does that look like? How could you do that?
There's never an end to the questions that can be asked. If people are confident that they can ask questions and find answers, even 'gutter' content can usually be fruitful. It's usually only the mindless pointless tripe churned out for children that is so empty and devoid of meaning or content that there's nothing of value to it. | null | 0 | 1316196986 | False | 0 | c2kd6hq | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd6hq | t1_c2ka65t | null | 1427608701 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | That is definitely broken and a classic example of "doing" Agile rather than "being" Agile. One positive that comes from having really high code coverage is at least the code is actually testable so it's not hard to go in a make it right. | null | 0 | 1316196990 | False | 0 | c2kd6if | t3_khhdj | null | t1_c2kd6if | t1_c2kb9so | null | 1427608701 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >Totally. How many incompatible, differently structured and named, and providing different functionality ways there are to create and work with a semaphore? I count three: semget, sem_init, sem_open.
That showed up at a point where different Unixes diverged. SySV IPC (`semget()`) exists and is supported and you can use it, but it's not used any more. `sem_open()` and `sem_init()` are for dealing with named and unnamed semaphores respectively. You *could* combine the latter two into one call, I guess, but I think that the current approach is more convenient. Win32 *does* have one mega-call and just expects unused parameters, but it's not clear to me that that is preferable.
>plus two or three more APIs if you count pipes/named pipes/sockets
They're different constructs; pipes are unidirectional, and sockets bidirectional, and these are for transferring data. You could build a new semaphore out of them, but it would obviously have significant limitations -- you'd be unnecessarily shipping data around and it would be bounded by buffer size.
>Also, to get to the territory of really basic, unsophisticated uncomfortable questions: why can Vim detect file being modified by external programs immediately on Windows but not on any UNIX? Is it some kind of rocket surgery whose time has not come yet, in the year 2011 since the birth of our Saviour?
I don't use vim, so I don't know what it does; it's true that there are different file-notification APIs on different Unixes, but it's certainly not true that vim couldn't use them, if it doesn't.
>And don't get me started on the way the most important key in vi/vim is not actually a key as far as UNIX is concerned, with various hilarious consequences.
It *is* a key, just also a byte that means something else. That's not an API issue, nor is it the Unix API's fault what vim happened to choose. | null | 0 | 1316197063 | False | 0 | c2kd6wu | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2kd6wu | t1_c2kaj6y | null | 1427608703 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | line10gotoline10 | null | Some sort of terrible future where C# still exists and everyone starts in Lisp. | null | 0 | 1316197103 | False | 0 | c2kd73y | t3_kcii9 | null | t1_c2kd73y | t1_c2jhvnl | null | 1427608706 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbified | null | He's a proponent of a theory of learning called "constructionism" (which is developed from Jean Piaget's "constructivism"), and what you were saying sounds an awful lot like that. I also think it's a much more interesting theory than the more mainstream understanding of "multiple intelligences". | null | 0 | 1316197119 | False | 0 | c2kd775 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kd775 | t1_c2kcljs | null | 1427608705 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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