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My problem with this type of interviewing is not the questions themselves, but when the end products (i.e., code) don't reflect what the company is ostensibly screening for. Ask me…

100 years ago, learning Greek and/or Latin was a large part of all there was to study. Now we have multitudes of fields and subfields regularly generating actual demonstrable progr…

Spot on. I also feel like even if you were being charged the tuition of 30+ years ago, you wouldn't be getting nearly as much for your money. I looked through the introductory Russ…

I think you're misinformed if you think brain development can be said to taper off in any way over 18 years. That's not what I said, and the advantage you talked about supposedly d…

Programming and graphic design perhaps (personally, I've yet to meet someone who programmed as a child who was better than a good programmer who learned later), but I really doubt …

The same encrypted communications that the NSA tries to subvert or sabotage with bribery and legal extortion?

Whoa, that's cool. I had no idea people were still working on it at that level. The last thing I saw was a version of OPAM that didn't seem to work that well...I'll have to go look…

Yep, that's what I was trying to convey. Thanks for your work.

It's really fast, has minimal boiler plate and supports functional programming without any of the "orthodoxy" of Haskell. That is, you can write a recursive function but also write…

The pretentious view that Haskell's core is a mathematical structure familiar to mathematicians is wrong. Haskell borrows concepts from category theory (a "field" so abstract from …

I once read a textbook I think I've read that book too. For the benefit of anyone following along at home: The unproven-but-accepted Church-Turing thesis states that any algorithm …

so I think they went a little over your head. I understand lazy evaluation and tail recursion fine. I interpreted your comment as presenting corecursion as the only logical alterna…

Corecursion is useful for taking a recursive algorithm and transforming it to a stream-like output pattern. But this is ridiculously inefficient. Well...you might be surprised in t…

There's no requirement that the Kickstarter complete the core project - just that they provide any promised reward. That makes no sense. Much of the time, the reward is directly re…

Because you're funding a project that may or may not work out. The whole point of crowdfunding is supposed to be, "You give us money to develop an idea, and you might get a reward …

Well... http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2012/10/10/chocolate... http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/12/can-eating-chocolate-h...

...this is meant to be funny, right?

The problem is a cultural one, not a technical one. What makes you think this community of people who work for the very companies that are being gagged, backdoored, surveilled and …

Major in something unrelated to CS that will challenge you.

However, it is the de-authentication step in the wireless setup that represents a much more accessible entry point for an intruder with the appropriate hacking tools. As part of th…

Good luck.

I don't know what's in the Python course, and they very well could be doing a decent job of teaching CS concepts. However, I'll assume it's a "here's how a for loop works"-type cou…

They also created a pretentious video where they explained that the NSA hacked people's e-mails through a rigged random number generator, complete with an attempt at explaining ell…

Are you trolling? I seriously can't tell...