What a Computer Really Is

8 points by seandenigris 11 years ago | 4 comments

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

seandenigris 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.