Readit Newsatticora commented on Ask HN: Developers, what was your 'Eureka ' moment in coding? · Posted by u/FinnLobsien
Learning to use a REPL. It's been at the core of my coding practice since. Especially using it as a debugger in an interpreted language was a game changer for me. It converts programming into a fast interactive game.
The code referred to is a "commercial code". There's a scan of a page from a 1910 code on Wikipedia.
Amazing that a phrase like "Confined yesterday, Twins, both dead, Mother not expected to live" was given a single code word ("Annosus").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_code_(communication...
"Unicode — The Universal Telegraphic Code Book" https://archive.org/details/unicodeuniversa00unkngoog/mode/2...
Is the code for the weather report at all similar to the one for "help I am a prisoner in a vintage dress factory"?
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atticora commented on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) norvig.com/21-days.html... · Posted by u/janchorowski
I aim higher.
atticora commented on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) norvig.com/21-days.html... · Posted by u/janchorowski
I think you never learn programming as it becomes more of an art at the upper echelons.
For the fundamentals I would say 2 - 3 years of dedicated work is enough.
It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.
The first-generation iPhone was announced in January 2007. As of November 2018 more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold. The child suicide rate topped out when the cell phone market became saturated. Hardly proof but it would be interesting to see suicide statistics broken out by cell phone use.
Amen. You could easily teach quite intricate biology in grade school, if you focused on a fascinating example or two. How many more people would be inspired, rather than bored?
> I discovered a very strange phenomenon: I could ask a question, which the students would answer immediately. But the next time I would ask the question – the same subject, and the same question, as far as I could tell – they couldn’t answer it at all!
> Then I say, “The main purpose of my talk is to demonstrate to you that no science is being taught in Brazil!”
https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education