Paul Graham wrote about programmer productivity and money in Great Hackers:
In programming, as in many fields, the hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve. Imagination is hard to measure, but in practice it dominates the kind of productivity that's measured in lines of code.
"Yes, but with a good functional language like Haskell, you're 9/10 of the way there, not 2/3." But then students would be too lazy to do their homework.
Another example of a physically and emotionally disconnected population would be the Solarians from Isaac Asimov's Future History novels. They actually carried it to the point where they became extinct.
The Solarian society is described in his novel The Naked Sun.
it is indeed easy! Here's my program that I created in one minute in c++. /*
* gPOS System with Debian OS
* copyright (c) 2007 Quakehead
*
* gPOS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* gPOS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with FFmpeg; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
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I was just listening to opl3 music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deaTzct3mW8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YMF262
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"Yes, but with a good functional language like Haskell, you're 9/10 of the way there, not 2/3."
But then students would be too lazy to do their homework.
They would work illegally.
How Tetris affects your life.
The Solarian society is described in his novel The Naked Sun.
It's the best book on computers, as it is also the best book on anything.
What if they also block Tor?
"29 months ought to be enough for anybody."
Thanks to my tinfoil hat.
no
oneblacklaptopperchild - there, fixed it for you.
Youtube to the rescue!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Seth+Shostak
it is indeed easy!
/*
Here's my program that I created in one minute in c++.
* gPOS System with Debian OS
* copyright (c) 2007 Quakehead
*
* gPOS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* gPOS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with FFmpeg; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
Class gPOS
{
public:
gPOS(int start_money=0) { money = start_money; is_drawer_open = false;}
get_barcode(barcode *code) { bar_code = code; }
print_to_thermal(void) { cout message endl; }
get_credit_card(int num) { credit_card = num; }
close_drawer(void) { is_drawer_open = false; }
open_drawer(void) { is_drawer_open = true; }
private:
int money;
int bar_code;
int credit_card;
char *message;
bool is_drawer_open;
};
how to assemble a girlfriend...
I'd say 42% is the answer. Problem solved :)
judgment day in 3 hours and 18 minutes.
when will they open-source windows?
Make a script that formats any inserted thumb-drive!
apt-get terraform mars
Apparently their server runs on an iPhone.