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Amusing computer science quotes

By probabilityZero | January 5, 2009

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ~ Alan Kay
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code [...]

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Amtrack police arrest man for taking photos for Amtrak photo contest

By probabilityZero | January 4, 2009

Amtrak has an annual photo  contest that has been running since 2003. Duane Kerzic was standing on the public platform in New York’s Penn Station, taking photos to enter in next year’s photo contest, when he was approached by Amtrak police. They asked him to delete his photos immediately, and he refused. He was subsequently [...]

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Helpful online Python tutorials

By probabilityZero | January 4, 2009

I’m studying JAVA in school, but I’ve always felt Python was a more fun language, and I always recommend it to friends wanting to try programming for the first time. Here are a few good resources that can help you get going in your attempt to learn Python, whether it be your first language or [...]

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Too many LANs

By probabilityZero | January 1, 2009

One last night at my house — I went to sleep at 8:30am — and another one tomorrow night. I’m practically trading day for night here.

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Jon Swift blogs about bloggers

By probabilityZero | December 30, 2008

Jon Swift has a nice list of interesting blog posts. It’s a good read — and not only because one of my posts is listed.

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Too much freedom

By probabilityZero | December 27, 2008

I have a very long vacation from school (6 weeks total, started this week), and I had been mentally piling up things to do over the break. Things I wanted to learn, read, play, watch, etc. Now that the break is here I’ve done a bit of it, but I find that more often than [...]

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Alan Turing on religion

By probabilityZero | December 24, 2008

Alan Turing was the father of computer science, as well as an atheist and a homosexual (at a time when homosexuality was illegal and considered a mental illness). These two famous quotes are attributed to him:

“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
“I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may [...]

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