I'm learning PHP to create some cool web mashup site. Everything is going great so far; I've got most of the database design down.
Anyway, just one question: what is abstraction? I keep hearing this phrase get banded around a lot and when I asked my professor about he gave me a funny look like he didn't know what I was on about. You guys at /pr/ seem a lot smarter than him, can you help me out?
THANKS IN ADVANCE
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Anonymous2008-03-28 22:47
You seem to have us confused with /pr/. /pr/ is that way ↳
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Anonymous2008-03-28 22:48
STOP HELPING HIM!!!
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Anonymous2008-03-28 22:49
Abstraction is when you create synergy in your multi-tier UML design. You have to find ways to leverage your ROI in order to boost your desktop wallpaper to the maximum.
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Anonymous2008-03-28 22:53
Abstraction is the process or result of generalization by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose. Amirite or amirite?
Abstraction is hiding fast access to hardware in slow and less efficient software layers because the programmer is too lazy to reverse engineer the hardware, and because of our disposable society that forces everyone to upgrade everything every 2 seconds.
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Anonymous2008-03-29 3:11
PROGRAMMING IS ABOUT ``ABSTRACT BULLSHITE'' THAT YOU WILL NEVER COMPREHEND
EVERYTHING HAS ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED IN >>2-9
WELCOME TO /prog/
EVERY THREAD WILL BE REPLIED TO
NO EXCEPTION
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Anonymous2008-03-29 8:40
what is abstraction? when I asked my professor about he gave me a funny look
I had to imagine if someone actually asked that question... what thoughts would be the source of his funny look. I laughed hard.
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LISP is just another of those abstractions that we are trying to help him to get rid of you idiot.
Anyways, >>1, what is the CPU architecture of the server?
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Pantsu2008-03-29 13:09
what is the CPU architecture of the server
It's running on a WRT54G; so 200Mhz MIPS processor. I figure I can get it to scale better buy clustering a few of them (plus they only cost like $50 each).
PROTIP: You can buy an old P3 box and a wireless NIC for less than the cost of a WRT (or most other wireless routers). Slap FreeBSD (or one of many routing solutions available) and you've got a significantly better performing, more stable platform for working on. The only difference is that it's cheaper, consumes more power and has a larger form factor. Shoot at it until it dies.