top | item 9205061 What a Computer Really Is 8 points| seandenigris | 11 years ago |seandenigris.com 4 comments order hn newest ankurdhama|11 years ago A computer is a machine which you can use to "simulate" a set of rule. Any other definition is just pure fantasy and hand waving. agumonkey|11 years ago I like the fact that i's purely syntactic reordering between two encodings. 2 > __x_ 1 > ___x | (ADD) | 3 < __xx seandenigris|11 years ago A hammer is just a long handle with a piece of metal on the end, but if you're not building something valuable with it, who cares? dang|11 years ago "Programmers: You Probably Don’t Know What a Computer Is" is too baity a title for Hacker News.
ankurdhama|11 years ago A computer is a machine which you can use to "simulate" a set of rule. Any other definition is just pure fantasy and hand waving. agumonkey|11 years ago I like the fact that i's purely syntactic reordering between two encodings. 2 > __x_ 1 > ___x | (ADD) | 3 < __xx seandenigris|11 years ago A hammer is just a long handle with a piece of metal on the end, but if you're not building something valuable with it, who cares?
agumonkey|11 years ago I like the fact that i's purely syntactic reordering between two encodings. 2 > __x_ 1 > ___x | (ADD) | 3 < __xx
seandenigris|11 years ago A hammer is just a long handle with a piece of metal on the end, but if you're not building something valuable with it, who cares?
dang|11 years ago "Programmers: You Probably Don’t Know What a Computer Is" is too baity a title for Hacker News.
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