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err 20th century?
I'd say he will be the most influential economist of both centuries. For those who don't who he is, the man is a fantastic public speaker on top of everything and there are a ton of videos on YouTube to get you familiarized.
> Structured programming is a nice academic exercise, which works well for small examples, but I doubt that any real-world program will ever be written in such a style.
This is not the first time I recall hearing this fallacious argument. If something works better than the "standard" approach for toy examples, the correct answer is to investigate, especially if you can't explain how the new approach would break down when actually used in the "real world".
Sure, an intuition that it wouldn't work is evidence against the new approach, but (i) this intuition may be motivated by the refusal to change habits, and (ii) toy examples that work is a stronger evidence in favour of the new approach anyway. Not definite, just stronger than intuition.
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I'd say he will be the most influential economist of both centuries. For those who don't who he is, the man is a fantastic public speaker on top of everything and there are a ton of videos on YouTube to get you familiarized.
Do you even know when the 19th century was? How can he be the most influential Economist of the 19th century if was only born in 1912?
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Yeah, a few of them are a bit too un-subtle on the satire, referencing future events in a wink-wink sort of way, which gives it away imo.
With only 4 comments, no one is winking back. With respect to the RSA "rejection," I would add the impracticality in hindsight is known to be, why the hell would you want pretty good signatures on your email? A few moments thought, provides examples where one would rather that the bits at the end were not present.
Note that PKI offers two independent options: - Encryption, by any entity (repudiable) against a well-known public key. - Authentication, by a single entity (non-repudiable), using a secret private key.
I get the impression you're trying to say that there are times when a person would want some reasonably plausible claim at repudiation. THis is also available, and can benefit from PKI as well.
There is a famous rejection, not in CS but in econ, that I know of: Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the 21st century, winner of the John Bates Clark ('51) and Nobel ('76), and preeminent monetarist was fired by the econ department at the University of Wisconsin Madison for being jewish and too data driven. They did not advertise this fact at the department when I was there =P He went 90 min…
there is a dangerous tendency to say "someone told me my idea is dumb, but lots of smart people have had their ideas ridiculed and later gone on to success". it's true, many good ideas have been ridiculed by simple minds. however, you never hear about "I had a dumb idea, people laughed at it, and then it went nowhere", and that has (probably) happened far more than the ridicule of world-changing ideas ... so while it…
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I'd say he will be the most influential economist of both centuries. For those who don't who he is, the man is a fantastic public speaker on top of everything and there are a ton of videos on YouTube to get you familiarized.
Do you even know when the 19th century was? How can he be the most influential Economist of the 19th century if was only born in 1912?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
err 20th century?
I'd say he will be the most influential economist of both centuries. For those who don't who he is, the man is a fantastic public speaker on top of everything and there are a ton of videos on YouTube to get you familiarized.