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danielroseman | 13 years ago | on: Google Fails the Turing Test

Not at all: it's you who don't seem to have read the post. He reaches a person, who completely fails to help in any way. Eventually after a further series of emails, someone cancels his order and fails to ship him the actual phone he'd been waiting for. I can't see how calling Support earlier would have helped.

danielroseman | 14 years ago | on: Greatly increase Chrome performance

What an extremely irritating blog. For some reason the owner seems to have linked the pagedown key to the "previous article" link. If I press the pagedown key, it's because I want to read the text that's currently off the screen, not because I want to read the previous article. You're actually preventing me from reading your full text. Fail.

danielroseman | 14 years ago | on: False Cognates and Syntax: The Importance of Syntax in Programming Languages

I note that the writer has fallen into the trap of a false cognate - or, at least, a near-homonym - by writing "demure" when he/she meant "demur".

danielroseman | 14 years ago | on: Display 100 Hello World Without Using Loops

I think a better Python version would be

    print '\n'.join(['Hello world'] * 100)

No need for exec.

danielroseman | 14 years ago | on: Coursera/Stanford online algorithms I course – a retrospective

I'm glad you found it easy. Personally, I found it very challenging: although I thought I matched the requirements for mathematical background that Prof Roughgarden outlined in the intro lecture, it turned out to be a struggle to keep up with some of the concepts when it came to apply them in the theory questions.

The programming exercises were fun, but I don't think they were really the point of the course - this "part 1", at least, was much more about analysis than about design.

As a contrast, I've just started their compilers course: there the theory questions are slightly easier, whereas the programming questions are much more involved - the first one has already taken me several hours and I'm nowhere near finished.