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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 abst... | 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... | 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 ... | 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 thi... | 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 inc... | 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, yo... | 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... | 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 twi... | 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... | 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 ... | 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... | 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 o... | 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.
| null | 0 | 1316194589 | False | 0 | c2kctdw | t3_khrn6 | null | t1_c2kctdw | t3_khrn6 | null | 1427608525 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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 ... | 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 ... | 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 trainin... | 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 cre... | 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 ... | 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 plac... | 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... | 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 dem... | null | 0 | 1316195481 | False | 0 | c2kcy7w | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kcy7w | t1_c2kb30z | null | 1427608588 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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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.... | 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 l... | 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 t... | 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 ... | 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 a... | 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 b... | 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... | 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... | 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
- Anyth... | 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-bic... | 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 g... | 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 as... | 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 ca... | 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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