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Is constant stimulation hurting our creativity—and the economy? Scott Adams pays tribute to tedium

By Scott Adams

We’ve won the war on boredom! If you have a smartphone in your pocket, a game console in the living room, a Kindle in your backpack and an iPad in the kitchen, you never need to suffer a minute without stimulation. Yay!

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                               Colossal Typewriter
                           by John McCarthy and Roland
                               Silver for the PDP-1  |   Photon typesetter
                                ?                    |   editors by Michael
                                ?                     \  Barnett & Kalon
             Expensive Typewriter        CREATE/EDIT   \  Kelley for      TECO
           for PDP-1 by Steve Piner       for CTSS      \ IBM 704     for PDP-1
                   /         |           /     |  \      \__  \   by Dan Murphy
                  /          |          /      |   \        \  \            |
  * Expensive Typewriter  editors      EDITS   | MEMO/MODIFY |  |   VEDIT   |

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(ns file-cols.core
  "Print the source-line length histogram of a bunch of files as a histogram.
  Inspired by: https://gist.github.com/rsms/36bda3b5c8ab83d951e45ed788a184f4"
  (:require [clojure.java.io :as io]))

(def uni-bar
  "Unicode bars for histogram."
  ["" "▏" "▎" "▍" "▌" "▋" "▊" "▉" "█"])

(def quot-rem-8

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(ns mars.rover)


;; A squad of robotic rovers are to be landed by NASA on a plateau on
;; Mars.

;; This plateau, which is curiously rectangular, must be navigated by the
;; rovers so that their on-board cameras can get a complete view of the
;; surrounding terrain to send back to Earth.

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;;; http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-26/srfi-26.html

(defn ^:private cut*
  [[a f] form]
  (cond
   (nil? form) [a f]

   (seq? (first form))
   (let [[arg-list xform] (cut* [[] '()] (first form))]
     (recur [(reduce conj a arg-list) (concat f (list xform))] (next form)))

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#Newbie programmer
def factorial(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 1
    else:
        return x * factorial(x - 1)
print factorial(6)


#First year programmer, studied Pascal

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;;
;; NS CHEATSHEET
;;
;; * :require makes functions available with a namespace prefix
;;  and optionally can refer functions to the current ns.
;;
;; * :import refers Java classes to the current namespace.
;;
;; * :refer-clojure affects availability of built-in (clojure.core)
;;   functions.