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Coding doesn't necessarily involve time deadlines, and maybe cooking doesn't either, although it seems to. I agree with the rest of what you said though.

Rule 11213: First person to mention "time" when linked article does not include the term "time" takes 1 step backward, 1 step forward, 2 steps backward, 1 step forward, 3 steps bac…

Both are life skills and that is the context.

"If the mayor of NYC wants to learn to program in his spare time, why the hell not?" I agree totally, not only would it be good for him but it sets a good example for his constitue…

I'm not trying to be facetious, just misunderstanding whatever point original commenter is making. "Most people don't what programming even looks like"? I don't think that is true …

... and then profess to study that which his generational peers have foregone. If only we could all be mayors of NYC!

Indeed, why not? This is no more or less as exciting an announcement as that of a new knitting hobby.

As opposed to a professional "coder"? (I also see "programmer" as a more distinguished title and I prefer it to "coder" (and even "software engineer"), but I don't understand any o…

I don't understand the distinction you raise in the first paragraph. Coding is programming. Just because everyone can divide doesn't mean everyone is trying to be a mathematician, …

Most of us use most of a lifetime of knowledge in our day jobs, and machines are magical.

"Can you explain to me how Michael Bloomberg would be better at his day to day job of leading the largest city in the USA if he woke up one morning as a crack Java coder?" If anyth…

... who, according to the story, asked why, expressing approval and amusement, but not surprise.

This is nonsense. It's absurd for you to argue that the difficulty of writing "Hello world" on an Apple device is somehow a good thing for Apple or anyone else on the basis of a wi…

I don't see the connection. Is Go even bootstrapped?

It is possible to find the median in linear time (quickselect). Pivoting on the median makes quicksort optimal (O(n log(n))) while only using constant space. This is rarely used in…

Doubly-homomorphic encryption (also called "fully-homomorphic") was recently invented and in principle solves the general problem.

It is already reduced to the initial handshake. That is exactly what a CA does. But perhaps you are right that a CA should sign certificates based on influence-weighted pseudonymou…

"We did this by computing the greatest common divisor (GCD) of all pairs of moduli from RSA public keys on the Internet." For your key to be safe from this method, all you need to …

I particularly like the example of Literate Roy: https://github.com/pufuwozu/roy/blob/master/examples/sqrt.lr... . This example demonstrates some of the language features and synta…

How does equating rationality with profit-maximization further this discussion in any meaningful way?

Even more remarkable is that they build directly upon the 400-year-old method of Fermat ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_factorization_method ).

If p^2+p+1 is smooth or if p^2+1 is smooth then n can be factored with cyclotomic methods. http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1989-52-185/S0025-5718-1989...

While perhaps not an advance, the algorithms implemented are state-of-the-art (GNFS, Pollard's p-1 test, Williams' p+1 test, cyclotomic polynomial test). But whatever the running t…