Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
by ccvannorman on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:54PM
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Give a man a computer, feed his mind for a day. teach a man to computer ...
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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
by henrik_w on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:09PM
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"Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime." - David Leinweber
Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
by catnaroek on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:20PM
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It's a good kind of frustration, though. It reminds me of Terence Parr's motto:
> “Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life automating?”
Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
by koolba on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:59PM
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More like give a man a computer and he'll start looking at porn.
Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
by state_less on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:06PM
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What if s/he had to write a perl script to download it though?
Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
by koolba on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:28PM
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Well funny story because that's how I learned perl ...
Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
by state_less on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:16PM
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The old man likes to jerk us around sometimes ;) Be good koolba, hope you're happy as Larry.