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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by ccvannorman on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:54PM (#13553331)
Give a man a computer, feed his mind for a day. teach a man to computer ...
Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by henrik_w on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:09PM (#13553485)
"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 (#13553591)
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?”

Link: http://parrt.cs.usfca.edu/

Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by koolba on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:59PM (#13553378)
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 (#13553452)
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 (#13553665)
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 (#13554206)
The old man likes to jerk us around sometimes ;) Be good koolba, hope you're happy as Larry.