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Just out of curiosity why? I personally can't imagine why someone would choose it as a favorite. Not because I think it is bad, but because I feel its kind of a kitchen sink langua…

"We assume that microbes evolved to attack humans when actually we are just civilian casualties in a much older war" Did anyone actually have this assumption?

What makes you think that? I have had the opposite experience with Scala/Haskell

What makes you think that? I have had the opposite experience with Scala/Haskell

there is a difference between it being cool and being acceptable. you had an identity as a nerd. you were accepted as a nerd, and cool people were probably happy that you were beca…

I would disagree. Would you leave a typo on your resume?

Actually I have been able to do this pretty easily, but its probably because I commute an hour and a half each way to work on a train. So I get 3 hours a day to work on things I wa…

If you hadn't beat me to it, this is exactly what I would have suggested

I think it should be pointed out that bayesian's believe bayes theorem as a statement about plausibility of statements, so intuitions about an event space (which are obvious statem…

They clearly know what they are doing. They definitely need people with prolog experience

I tend to disagree slightly. I have a math/cs degree, but work with a lot of physicists turned programmers. They are all smart and have plenty of experience at doing what they are …

Because in silicon valley and the startup scene in general you will see mostly 20 somethings as software engineers. Companies like that they can pay them less and get long hours ou…

Its just as arbitrary as "why do you like me?" "we happened to be in the same bar, which is randomness+a bit of factors based on our personalities" just because a computer is not c…

I may have been to harsh in my assessment. But still, how many of these people are sitting down and working on some puzzle/problem/project they find interesting vs saying I know I …

This may be thinking back on things with rose tinted glasses, but I learned to code in qbasic when I was 12 or so at a Boys and Girls club after school and fell in love. It was ent…

I feel like that might be the wrong question. If you wanted to really study formal computer science you could learn things like model theory. If you want to study the analysis of a…

"changing them when they become a problem" is a huge understatement. changing economic systems is incredibly complex and extremely hard to predict. even just engineering enough peo…

I have a feeling if this person had actually gone to school for CS they would have thought it equally useless. Most CS programs don't concentrate on say building iOS apps etc.

Not sure I agree. When I was a child I knew my family was struggling, but had I actually been burdened with knowing how far behind we were on paying for housing etc I might have ha…

I work in the industry, so I kind of picked this up through osmosis. I will ask someone at work if they have any good literature.

Volunteering for a volunteer project is noble. Volunteering so that someone else can take your fair share of profit is not so much. If you are taking a hit in salary for society at…

They don't care that you aren't clicking. The ad industry is moving towards impressions. That you are seeing the content.

but computer like structures do pop up in incredibly simple situations. seashells for instance.

Isn't this one of the homework's in the stanford/coursera ml course? I feel like this is not really original content

I totally agree. I have worked in two "startups" (both great experiences). My father started an electrical contracting business when he was in his 20s. No one called him an entrepr…