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jeira

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About jeira

simbyotic [at] gmail [dot] com

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    I am flabbergasted to see Gary Taubes being named a charlatan, especially since Taubes has written a whole freakishly long response to Guynete's articles on his blog: http://garyta…

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    What seriously? I thought you had received funding from the World of Goo guys right? What a shame, seemed like a great game.

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    Comment #3211104

    I don't think it is as straightforward as that. Imagine you're learning chess and you have a chess master as your teacher, you are going to annihilate someone who has putted the sa…

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    Ask HN: Do you have any outlier examples in programming?

    Hi Hackers, I was wondering if you guys know of any examples of guys who have been programming say, for less than 1 year and are already proefficient at that. If you do, do you kno…

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    Comment #3059649

    It's a lab-type period (I don't know how you call these in the States) where we are still working on paper. At least I assume we are since we didn't had this week's class, but I we…

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    Done. Thanks for the help.

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    Comment #3058279

    I'll ask him what he thinks about that. Thanks, really appreciated.

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    Thanks Eric, really appreciated for your offer. I don't know how you generally approach this but I've updated my HN account with my email. I will continue attending the class and s…

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    But why only paper? I am not against using paper to do things like doing a diagram so you can understand your algorithm better and its shortcomings, and you're right, knowing how t…

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    Yes, I should have said something about it, but it is not, at least from what I've been told, about drawing boxes and having a visual representation of your algorithm, but actually…

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    Ask HN: What's your view about learning how to program on paper?

    Hi hackers, how are you doing? I have just started Computer Science at college and I will have a class named "Programming Fundamentals" where all our practice questions and exams a…