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Re:If programming languages were religions by stcredzero on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:11PM (#399956)
Sorry, but designing CPU hardware is really quantum mechanics, both in your analogy and in reality.
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Re:If programming languages were religions by Retric on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:29PM (#399998)
No, hardware is reality, QM is still an abstract representation that seems to work if you ignore the bugs.
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Re:If programming languages were religions by stcredzero on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:35PM (#400008)
Consciousness is a bug.
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Re:If programming languages were religions by Retric on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:47PM (#400026)
? I meant QM not including General Relativity etc. I think this joke has been stretched way past the breaking point but what did you mean?
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Re:If programming languages were religions by stcredzero on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @04:28PM (#400097)
stretched way past the breaking point but what did you mean?

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/15/today-on-offworld-13.ht...

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