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Category Archives: computer science
Talking to a computer
The most important tools in our society change not just the way we work but the way we talk and even think. If you’re not convinced, just consider all the different telephony-related phrases that have become an important part of … Continue reading
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Managing shell command history in OS X/Linux
One of the many benefits of using the command line shell in OS X or Linux (or any *nix or similar OS) is that the operating system keeps a history of all the commands you use, storing them in a … Continue reading
Using diff
diff is a *nix command that takes two files and compares them, reporting on the differences between them. For example: $ diff foo.bar foo.bar $ When the files are identical, no output is generated (as in this case, comparing a … Continue reading
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Conway’s Game of Life
Learning to program, at least if you’re going in a more scholarly direction, means at the least hearing about John Conway’s Game of Life. It’s all about cellular automata, and it was invented in 1970–but it still is perfectly relevant, … Continue reading
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