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8 points by seandenigris 11 years ago · 4 comments

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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
  • seandenigrisOP 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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