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An education platform created to teach the fundamentals of #ComputerScience and #Mathematics.
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Similar vibes: "You can't really trust student's reviews and evaluations. We basically stopped reading them in our department."
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Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon’s Creator, Chris Sawyer: https://t.co/a2AtpX9dQg
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When and how did you first start thinking about creating a game about rollercoasters?
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It's funny to contemplate how the world moves around and a lot of what surrounds us is simply taken for granted by most people. The most popular breed of cattle we had in our small ranch in the south of Brazil was Hereford. But my grandparents never even heard of the breed name
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My wife called me insane when I told her there were people out there willing to pay to learn about nature and science. Looking back, she was probably correct. 🤣
My wife doesn't understand that I find coding, the thing I do for work, more fun than watching TV.
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"An all-day cell phone ban within a Florida school district improved test scores, particularly for male students and in middle & high schools." 🔗 https://t.co/BenY4WYTZZ
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"Everything you might possibly want to know about programming in Turbo Pascal." Originally released on VHS, © Borland International. https://t.co/kv1Kyhnv2w
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@jasondeanlee Then it’s not a proof, right? Generally speaking it’s the prover’s job to convince relevant experts their argument is correct.
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Linked lists are baaad (like... Michael Jackson "bad") Here's a nice little comment I received today from one of our students:
Linked lists where invented by CS professors to teach data structures with a simple example. They're useless in real programming.
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That's correct. ReTurn from Subroutine does not work in most modern graphics systems.
@SandyofCthulhu RTS doesn’t work with modern graphics. You can’t tell what the hell units are unless they are simple pixel art designs that were designed to be so Instead they meticulously 3D model a tank and scale it to RTS unit size and it becomes unrecognizable in the heat of battle
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Did you ever drink water when you were not thirsty? ...that's how I feel reading any tech news in the past three years.
Anthropic is acquiring @bunjavascript to further accelerate Claude Code’s growth. We're delighted that Bun—which has dramatically improved the JavaScript and TypeScript developer experience—is joining us to make Claude Code even better. Read more:
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If you're not redirecting the output of banner(1) to a matrix printer to wish someone happy birthday, why even bother?
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The door is actually open on the first two frames, but just a tiny tiny bit. 🤣
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I try not to say anything anymore because most people that don't know me well enough just assume I'm "being biased" or that "it's in my best interest to criticize the book", but I have to agree. I had really expectations for this book and I felt let down.
Although I'm reading it, and doing the C compiler in C++, I have to say that "Writing a C Compiler" is a horrible book where no explanations are given, and mostly all the content from the chapters are the AST definitions.
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Crazy how many insults I got for "criticizing the current model." If you know anything about our account then you know that legacy doesn't mean worse. 🤣 There's a reason almost every attempt of rewriting a legacy system ends up failing or becoming as complex as the original.
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Imagine how cool it would be to have a β in your name.
The z-buffer and depth testing (aka z-testing) have been the dominant way of hidden surface elimination for over 50 years, introduced but not implemented in W. Straßer's PhD thesis in 1974, and actually implemented in Ed Catmull's PhD thesis in the same year. 1/4
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We are the *ultimate* legacy system.
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ProOptimizer enabled ✅️
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