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See also, "preliminary step a of part 2 of my senior compiler project." Aren't compilers classes common in undergraduate CS programs? Don't they all do this? E: In case you were cu…

Exactly. Now that I have a Mac, Mac fanboys all assume I'm one of them and come up to me in the coffee shop to say, "hey, aren't we so much better than everyone else because of the…

I recently acquired a MacBook after using a variety of standard laptops with Linux installed on them. In my experience, the Mac is better as a /consumer/ laptop, while the Linux bo…

Crushes goblet full of wine Groovy.

I think that Norvig's point in this article is that to really learn to use a language, along with all of its specific idioms and everything (so that you're not just writing "Java i…

Well, if he's going to learn to be a hacker he might as well learn about all of the age-old flamewars too.