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"the professor covered multiple blackboards with mathematical formulas and explained the principles of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism." Walter Lewin did a lot more than j…

Just another way for the ETS to sandwich more money.

This is an interesting exchange between Mark Guzdial and Alan Kay: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKVUNBWIDAS9YQ The focal point of the argument seems to be whether CS "educa…

I feel Expose is quite counter-productive. The golden rule any developer must know: never use the mouse. Multiple desktops and Quicksilver (instead of the dock, which is quite dist…

Yes, they are: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/speakers http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/ I remember seeing videos of Yegge's and Munroe's talks. Yegge's is worth wa…

Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. e.g. …

I'm a high school senior student who has applied to several public universities; mainly a subset of Berkeley, UIUC, UWash, Michigan, UT Austin, GATech, and Purdue. I'm wondering if…

The Hazel Tree: http://thehazeltree.org/

What if working hard on what I like could potentially get me into debt? Or what if I like to impress people?

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Yeah, but we really ought to stop using extraneous punctuation.

A big cultural problem also amplifies this: a majority of the middle and upper class families want their children to become engineers. Our country does not need any more corporate …

It's actually the education system that is largely responsible for the "extremely corrupted political system", among other issues.

Windows 7

No.

Wow, that reporter sure is attractive.

The Cookbook (Amazon it, I'm too sleepy to link) contains examples of idiomatic code that you should use.

The BitTorrent code looked awful the last time I saw it; complete with 20 arguments for one function.

Not all of us went to MIT.

Mark Cuban on how to become an innumerate tool: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/35949.html?thread=516461 .

...or google RMS!

These two books look interesting, too: http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/ http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/ As for your suggestion on reading Understanding the Linux Kernel , …

Then you've got other problems.

True. And fairly polished, too.

However, Charles Leiserson is a pedantic douche.