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Comment TOP was my first love.. (Score 1) 739

I first installed Debian somewhere before the potato era. On a 386 I had to put the hdd on the same cable as the cdrom otherwise it wouldnt boot.

I installed it and accidently got in to `top` which was the most unbelievable KEWLLLLLst thing I ever saw !!!!

In that time people still took the time to properly write a manualpage grmbl..

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Submission + - Philosophies and programming languages (blogspot.com)

evariste.galois writes: In Wikipedia, in every article for a programming language, there is a special section "Language Philosophy", in which the motivation and the basic principles of the language design are being analyzed. The author is investigating much further than that, the deeper connections between philosophies and programming languages, by considering most influential thinkers of all time (e.g. Plato, Descartes, Kant) and trying to figure out which programming language fits best with most aspects of their own philosophy (Did you know that Kant was the first Python programmer?). The list is not exhaustive, but this is a funny and educative start.

Comment Re:No Child Left Behind (Score 5, Insightful) 1114

If you want the epitome of this 'one-size-fits-all' approach and witness its results upclose then please come to europe.

This fear of a middle-ages class-based school system that is encoded in every administrators head, has forged a bond inbetween civil servant and teacher so strong that they cannot be distinguished from another.

In fact this bond is so strong now that even the slightest form of desire for exellence is not just seen as an attack on the schoolsystem itself but also on the very fundaments of the society it's supposed to serve.

One giant self fulfilling prophecy if you ask me.

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