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I've found quite a lot of pages on skills that geeks should have in order to ascend to the rank of geekdom. A lot of them, of course, are written by people who have no idea what geekhood is all about (pseudo-geeks I call them). Take this page for example. This is just one of the many posts on the Geek Dad blog on Wired. Granted, these posts are not really serious, and this is Wired after all, so you have to expect this sort of thing, but still this page succeeded in pushing my Geek Elitist buttons. ...

--Calculate standard deviation
stddev ls = sqrt . fromIntegral . (`div` length ls) . sum $ map ((^2) . (minus . (`div` length ls) . fromIntegral . sum $ ls )) ls


--to evaluate a string as an expression - wish there was an easier way like in lisp mmmmm might look into this again at later date
--install hint and then
import Language.Haskell.Interpreter
runInterpreter $ setImports ["Prelude"] >> eval "3 + 5"

For data to exist all that you need is a means by which to represent it and a means to interpret it.

Lately it has become increasingly apparent that the US government really is controlled by corporations. America is a command economy, a dictatorship, except the American dictatorship is ruled by CEOs rather than by a monarch. This is shown by the fact that the US government is willing to commit acts that will do far-reaching damage to everyone for the benefit of big businesses. This can be seen in SOPA and PIPA as well as the takedown of MegaUpload and a lot of other recent behavior.
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From time to time there are people who are new to programming asking for guidance, which is something I wish existed when I started programming. When I answer these requests, I do everything possible to refrain from giving a specific language, unless that language is geared specifically to the program they wish to develop. I have my programming language preferences, I try not to impose my preferences on new programmers. Maybe what works for me will not necessarily work for them.

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look, i NEED a code to send messages to ALL my friends on facebook (a bot) in either java or visual basic 2010! i would GREATLY appreciate this, and ask that you do all you can to help, i know i may be young BUT i want to save the internet! it's pretty much all i have at the moment and without the internet i would loose contact with many of my good friends.
thank you for your time
Sincerely,
Baxe

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Ok, so i've heard about loads of people blogging this and blogging that, and to be frank. i don't see why surely not everyone in the world wants to know how your feeling, or cares whether or not you had your dog died?

anyways i'm going to stop going on now lol

bye !