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If they misrepresent their arguements there must be a motive.

I believe ktRolster may be refering to "Procedural Abstration". The term is used in SICP [1] (the Wizard Book using scheme, previously freshman programming text at MIT). Abstration…

I believe Linus claims to be an engineer, or maybe a manager nowadays. shrug Glad he has done well anyways.

Trust is earned, Linus is right.

Traditionally big corporations, or anybody with legacy systems, are very conservative with technology choices...

You might be complaining about students being taught Python and it becoming their "blub" language. We all start somewhere, and you can indeed go far with Python in some fields. It'…

I don't like Python either but it's out there and a fact of life. You use whatever a client requires. Dictionaries, sets and lists can be nice though. Go here( https://www.thecodin…

It can be a terrible filter, but credentialism fits in well with bureaucratic environments. :/

True. But before the days of Structured Programming widespread understanding of algorithms was hoped to lead to a professional Software Engineering field. The idea of "Software Eng…

I think the priority was to reenable discussion of new movies and TV shows, that would be useful moving forward. But maybe they could make an API.

Wait a moment, they have a Falsehoods series on all sorts of subjects. The Fake News fact checkers are going to try globbing on to every niche they can...

A real man might take responsibility, but if that ever becomes too visible you will be made the dunce if not scapegoat. Maybe only the successful people had the clout to pull it of…

Languages/libraries evolve and bitrot is a fact of life, yes. Now you have me thinking about how to plan that long! You would need an architecture easy to port and good documentati…

I was actually thinking about veterins returning to civillian life at the time, but maybe you're right.

Table lookup is a common solution when a FPU isn't available and speed is a higher priority than accuracy. I've actually used formulas for trig functions before with IEEE double fl…

Are you sure there weren't some sort of recruitment effort with at least some of those guys... Though you do see some tech pages out there, maybe because of Hangouts? shrug I didn'…

How does one create a reasonable intermediate languages? I'm at a loss there. :/

You are describing "generalization". Lookup Tables (LUT) can still be a valid technique if the problem space is small enough. If you use a table for trigonometry functions then int…

How then do you forget, after this overlearning already occurred? EDIT: Someone says "If you can't get past nature's paywall,"

Yeah. But for a function with parameters there needs to be a way to associate values with parameters. There are different ways to do that, but even a static global would be accesse…

Those LUT's have implied indexing internally, I suspect something akin to indexing is essential. Logic functions can be composed using any one of: NAND, NOR, XOR, IMPLY, or other u…

I suspect it would be difficult (impossible?) without relative position addressing modes and/or other tricks. A conventional stack would need some way to access an offset away from…

How are you sure this isn't precisely evil on Google's part?

Question: Can anybody explain how synthetic singing voice is made? Especially things like pitch, a voice actor doesn't have to sing every syllable at every pitch do they?