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Re:I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011) on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @04:31PM (#8494940)
Because everybody can do "actual progrmaming." Especially in grad school.

Computer Science is broad (even AI is different), but I'd say it's more about Turing's academic papers, and computational mathematics. Programming, and computers, aren't even needed, they're just models which either can or cannot derive solutions, or in a reasonable time. Such as the halting problem, P, NP, NP-complete.

In a way it's mathematical logic, but with more rigorous proofs.

Everybody else can learn a generic language with some external libraries and make almost anything they want. But that's not more academic than it is to do woodworking, or sewing. Comp Sci is academic, and one of the more important ones because it determines a lot of research other disciplines do. I.e physicists and mathematicians do comp sci, while the softer sciences run models without understanding why they work.

Re:Native Netflix support coming to Linux on Thursday September 18, 2014 @11:19PM (#8338852)
It works in Chrome-beta, just pipe that to XBMC and run it fullscreen?

Gotta change user-agent too, but I think that was already mentioned in the article. Html5 Netflix, been working since August.

Re:Teal 3d dice roller on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @12:02PM (#8137609)
Crashes when trying to load page in firefox.
Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) on Sunday May 25, 2014 @08:48AM (#7796203)
Why are people saying [2008] when the copyright says 2003, and the last revision was in September 2003?