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rndm_access··on Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language?
I am a strong proponent of not using anything that forces you to use OOP as "baby's 1st language". Well I see OOP as a heresy in general tho. To me programming is about algorithms and data structures and data flow. Not some strange concept of OOP that does not even have an exact definition and you can see some extremists claiming that literally everything is OOP.
rndm_access··on C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
Which layer is Forth? xD
rndm_access··on Docx2LaTeX-An AI-powered Word to LaTeX converter
We are still waiting for an AI to write all these reports and essays in place of us.
rndm_access··on The Rise and Rise of Corrugated Iron
The MiG-25 was constructed from 80% nickel-steel alloy, 11% aluminium, and 9% titanium according to source cited on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#cite_n...
rndm_access··on The red color of Mars is only inches deep
concerned Adeptus Mechanicus noises
rndm_access··on Coming to Agreement, a logic puzzle for Oxford admissions interviews
This is general problem with modern public founded education system - it prizes memorization of repetitive schemes - as it's easy to check on the mass scale who is able to memorize these schemes. It's several magnitudes harder to check who really is a material for a scientist among same large population of candidates. I was educated in top university in my Central European country and to this day cannot shake off memories of people who passed calculus exams by memorizing solutions of integrals instead of understanding how to solve them. It was a general scheme - mediocre students interested only in "getting paper" aka diploma were passing exams mostly flawless some of them even get scholarships[sic(k)!] while people interested in actually understanding material and doing projects by their own (most students were making projects in groups and changing only minor details and teachers were pretending they do not see that) were struggling within that system. As the system has memorization without understanding and cheating as a fundamental of it's construction and people who resist following that pathological scheme were simply penalized. Attempts to rationalize with academic teachers in many cases resulted in absurd remarks of "everyone have equal requirements for passing classes". Puke inducing every time I think about that.
rndm_access··on Who would be your top AMA for Startups
Elizabeth Holmes. xD
rndm_access··on A study of 264 people by Swedish researchers found narcissism and low int (cont)
I wonder what similar research would tell about stock traders believing in so called "technical analysis".
rndm_access··on Reasons Apple Is Worth $3T
0. Federal Reserve creating inflation of US Dollar artificially pumping stock market up and up since 1987. Every stockmarket crash only intensifying peace of currency printing.
rndm_access··on Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable
There was a lot of FUD being spread about supposed non enforceable quality of license.