Another way of saying it is, anything that uses get float doesn't care what the details are inside or shouldn't, and if I change that definition, I don't have to change anything elsewhere in my code, whereas if I just have the raw code in there, I have to go off and do it.

换种说法就是，任何用到获取,输入这个功能的人不用担心具体的实现细节,如果我改变了这里的实现，我并不需要去改变我的代码,因为我的最底处的源码就在这里,我去改这里就可以了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I was deciding between political science at the time and computer science because I have always been fascinated by cities and at some point want to maybe potentially go into government I'm still not quite sure if I have more effect there or more effect in programming.

我那时要在政治学和,计算机科学,中做出选择，因为,我一直为城市着迷,我潜意识里有些想去政府工作,我并不确定我以后在,政治上更有成就还是在编程上更有成就。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

The people who are in the know -know who's trustworthy as a borrower and who has a good prospect of paying it back -but if I go in there ignorantly, I'm going to get stuck with the worst stuff.

那些行家老手们,就知道哪些借款人是可信的,钱借给谁还款的把握比较大,但如果我懵然不知就把钱投进去了,就可能会落得个血本无归的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There are coffee machines and there are lounge sofas and everything else. There are computers, there are printers, so it's a good lounge, and I think if you go there one day a week to do your problem sets, or more often, that's a good meeting place,I recommend that.

那里还有咖啡机和舒适的大沙发,以及一些其它设施,比如电脑,打印机,真的是个很好的休息室,如果你每周去那里,花一天时间完成你的作业,或者多去几次,确实是个好地方,我强力推荐

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Just a few reminders, if any of you are here for the first time, and I know there are a few, if you go to this particular website, and you can get to this from the classes server as well, you'll see the course website that we've developed and it has a lot more information than if you just go to the classes server and click on the syllabus.

提醒一句,如果有同学是第一次来听课,我看到了有些新面孔,你们可以登录这个网站,从课程服务器也能找到,你们会发现我们更新了课程网站,其中含有大量的信息,若你只访问课程服务器,点击教程大纲

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