On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 18:41:36 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
The whole art/science vein of these Knuth quotes seems like a
lot of BS, trying to situate computer programming in the
long-standing and overblown science/humanities "divide."
I should like to see an argument rather than mere asser
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 18:51:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 18:05:28 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I appreciate that many of us have better things to do. But I
had been thinking about why I find D appealing, and how I
would get this across to future partners, and had also b
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 18:05:28 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I appreciate that many of us have better things to do. But I
had been thinking about why I find D appealing, and how I would
get this across to future partners, and had also been thinking
about various forum comments equating measu
The whole art/science vein of these Knuth quotes seems like a
lot of BS, trying to situate computer programming in the
long-standing and overblown science/humanities "divide."
I should like to see an argument rather than mere assertion.
Steve Jobs is not an authority on this subject, but I fo
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 09:04:51 UTC, Messenger wrote:
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 01:09:44 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 11:33:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Hmm... science exists only as long as we don't understand
something, then it disappears and only knowledge remai
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 06:31:40 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
In this talk I shall try to explain why I think "Art" is the
appropriate word. I will discuss what it means for something to
be an art, in contrast to being a science; I will try to
examine whether arts are good things or bad things
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 01:09:44 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 11:33:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Hmm... science exists only as long as we don't understand
something, then it disappears and only knowledge remains.
Looks like he talks about engineering, but calls it scien
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 11:33:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Hmm... science exists only as long as we don't understand
something, then it disappears and only knowledge remains. Looks
like he talks about engineering, but calls it science.
One dismisses Knuth discussing the topic for which he is
ri
Hmm... science exists only as long as we don't understand
something, then it disappears and only knowledge remains. Looks
like he talks about engineering, but calls it science.
An old essay that may yet be relevant today at a time when
intellectual fashion has continued in the direction he was moved
to address in his speech.
"there is a way to make a big improvement: it is still a pleasure
to do routine jobs if we have beautiful things to work with. For
example, a p
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