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I imagine he meant a different kind of developers than those who are taking (or have taken) over the area.
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Slight exaggeration on the IQ, less so on the amount of work. Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep.
> Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep. Sorry to interrupt you, but if you are reading HN while sitting on your lectures, why not just go home and get some sleep?
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Slight exaggeration on the IQ, less so on the amount of work. Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep.
> Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep. Sorry to interrupt you, but if you are reading HN while sitting on your lectures, why not just go home and get some sleep?
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You must be joking about Dutch being difficult to master. Dutch grammar is in every aspect simpler than German. The orthography is a bit awkward though. Also, it is weird that Tannenbaum makes a difference between masculine and feminine at all, since in standard Netherlandic Dutch they have since long ago merged into the common gender ("de" word). I guess he just got that knowledge from some old grammar book...
Also, it is weird that Tannenbaum makes a difference between masculine and feminine at all, since in standard Netherlandic Dutch they have since long ago merged into the common gender ("de" word). Yes, but it is still relevant for pronouns: Dit is een ezel, [hij/zij/het] staat in de wei. Whether most speakers actually know the correct gender and thus pronoun is another question ;).
> Whether most speakers actually know the correct gender and thus pronoun is another question ;).
There is no "correct" grammar from a descriptive point of view. When most people don't distinguish masculine nouns from feminine ones any more, linguists tend to say "the m/f distinction is disappearing" instead of "there is a m/f distinction but most people don't know the correct gender".
I strongly recommend reading all of his books. They are very clear and non boring and the knowledge you get from understanding them is really the basics of what any programer should know I believe (well except maybe for the distributed systems book). After reading this faq, I'm very curious about the travel book.
> Will somebody please explain to me why 'ezel' (donkey) is masculine, 'paard' (horse) is neuter and 'antilope' (antelope) is feminine? Don't worry, Dutch people don't know this either. Unfortunately that means for each word you'll have to learn whether it's a "de" or a "het" word. Something that slowly happens over time as your vocabulary expands. This is one of the main reasons why Dutch has a reputation of being d…
I've always wondered when someone names or creates a new device or object, who decides what gender it should be.
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I recommend buying your computer books in India. US Price for this book is $150 USD. India price is around Rs. 427 which is around $7 USD. Textbook prices, like everything related to education and healthcare are excessively high in the US. A reasonable price would be around $50, which is what this book would cost if it wasn't a textbook. The same book in Amazon India: http://www.amazon.in/Operating-Systems-Implementa…
Just look on AbeBooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978812032...
> Will somebody please explain to me why 'ezel' (donkey) is masculine, 'paard' (horse) is neuter and 'antilope' (antelope) is feminine? Don't worry, Dutch people don't know this either. Unfortunately that means for each word you'll have to learn whether it's a "de" or a "het" word. Something that slowly happens over time as your vocabulary expands. This is one of the main reasons why Dutch has a reputation of being d…
Many languages have more difficult gender systems than Dutch. Dutch grammar is easier than German; our orthography is a little less regular than German, but still orders of magnitude more regular than French, Danish or English. The main difficulty is that you cannot practice speaking Dutch until you are already quite advanced, because if you speak broken Dutch, you will in all cases get an answer in pretty good Engli…
I can confirm this as a foreigner who has lived in the Netherlands for the past six months :)
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> Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep. Sorry to interrupt you, but if you are reading HN while sitting on your lectures, why not just go home and get some sleep?
Sometimes the only reason you go to lecture is to be sure to catch important announcements. You can to that with little sleep, and in the meantime, you need something low-effort to keep you awake. So there's one theory.
A: See Computer Networks, 3rd edition, page 663.
Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?
I believe I did, Bob. I believe I did.