SIGBOVIK is a parody of computer science conferences. It's a running joke hosted on April Fools Day every year at CMU - and apparently a quite convincing one. ;-) Source: I attended SIGBOVIK a few times in grad school.
C++ is not technically a superset of C. Here are a few examples that are valid in C, but not C++: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1201840/111426 However, it's close enough that I generally agree with your point.
Why would you not use A* from the beginning? It's a trivial extension to Dijkstras and is often orders of magnitude faster when an informative heuristic is available. Also, both algorithms require identical data…
Nope. Maybe it used to be true, but not as of 2007. "…prohibits you…from disclosing this letter, other than to…an attorney to obtain legal advice or legal assistance with respect to this letter."" Source:…
Nit: You can't, by definition, prove an axiom. Memorizing axioms is quite necessary because they are the building blocks for all other theorems. In any case, I don't disagree with your high-level point.
Like antics said, this isn't true for graph planning. Here are three concrete examples that I know of: 1. Anytime D* was used by the winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge 2. Field D* was used by Spirit and Opportunity on…
It's not that uncommon in CS. I just started a Ph.D. program (Robotics at CMU) straight out of undergrad and a decent number of the other incoming students are in the same boat. It varies depending upon the field and…
I doubt it. The article makes this sound pretty specific to producing the magnetic disks used in hard drives. I don't see any reason why this would also work for silicon processes.
That description states a resolution of 1920x1200 instead of the 2560x1440 on these panels. I think 1920x1200 looks pretty awful on a 24" monitor, so I'm sure it will look even worse on one that is 3" larger. It's a…
Depending upon how this evolves, it could cause legal issues for employers who make postings. It's illegal to discriminate by a lot of personal information such as nationality, age, race, whether they have children. All…
It doesn't fit. The RJ-45 connector nearly the same size (possibly larger) than the edge of the retina MacBook Pro.
On OS X, you get clang and llvm-gcc in XCode 4.1, which is a solid 1.4 GB download. You're absolutely right about clang being pretty lightweight, so it's getting a bad wrap by association. I'm honestly not sure why…
I hate requirements like that. My hunch is that they the SE team hasn't put a ton of thought into the account creation process because they also support OpenID. I didn't even realize that you could login to…
Same problem here. It showed up again after Command + Tabbing out of Chrome and switching back in. It's humorous that the custom cursor fails in the one case where it's identical to my default cursor.
Can you suggest a good Illustrator alternative for Linux? I've tried a few and was never satisfied largely because the GUIs were very difficult to use. Perhaps I tried the wrong ones!
I was just at a kickoff event in NJ as a mentor as well. Do you mind sharing which? I was at the one hosted by Montgomery High School.
Building from source isn't necessarily a bad thing: some Linux packages have the same behavior (e.g. Portage, on which MacPorts is based). There are pros and cons to both approaches. Package management is definitely a…
Now we know for sure why Google removed the "+" operator: it's used for the "direct connect feature." E.g. if you search for +pepsi you're redirected to Pepsi's Google+ page.
> By the way, a 2880×1800 15" panel merely (well …) has 230 PPI. Apple couldn’t even call it a Retina display. Whether a display is "retina" or not depends upon how far the display is from your eyes. I could…
That problem is inherent with posting something online. The best any service can do is make it difficult for someone to accidentally violate their friends' privacy. This, in my opinion, is where Google+ is failing:…
Only allowing the owner to share an album is a false sense of security. If someone can see your album, they could just as easily download the photos and make them public. Instead of disallowing it outright, I'd rather…
If you're using a password management utility, root access to the filesystem isn't enough because all stored passwords are encrypted a password that is never stored on disk. One example of this, I believe, is Keychain…
If I am not misinterpreting the article and, "his driving privileges were returned...after 10 days..." is the time between receiving the letter and having his name cleared, I am impressed that the government moved that…
Well, that explains a lot. Every time I attempt to accomplish something on Facebook, one of two things happens: (1) the interface has changed in some way or (2) the feature is broken. Just last week, every "Load More"…
That's four hours per day averaged over the entire study. These statistics are more telling: "Employed persons worked an average of 7.5 hours on the days they worked. More hours were worked, on average, on weekdays than…
SIGBOVIK is a parody of computer science conferences. It's a running joke hosted on April Fools Day every year at CMU - and apparently a quite convincing one. ;-) Source: I attended SIGBOVIK a few times in grad school.
C++ is not technically a superset of C. Here are a few examples that are valid in C, but not C++: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1201840/111426 However, it's close enough that I generally agree with your point.
Why would you not use A* from the beginning? It's a trivial extension to Dijkstras and is often orders of magnitude faster when an informative heuristic is available. Also, both algorithms require identical data…
Nope. Maybe it used to be true, but not as of 2007. "…prohibits you…from disclosing this letter, other than to…an attorney to obtain legal advice or legal assistance with respect to this letter."" Source:…
Nit: You can't, by definition, prove an axiom. Memorizing axioms is quite necessary because they are the building blocks for all other theorems. In any case, I don't disagree with your high-level point.
Like antics said, this isn't true for graph planning. Here are three concrete examples that I know of: 1. Anytime D* was used by the winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge 2. Field D* was used by Spirit and Opportunity on…
It's not that uncommon in CS. I just started a Ph.D. program (Robotics at CMU) straight out of undergrad and a decent number of the other incoming students are in the same boat. It varies depending upon the field and…
I doubt it. The article makes this sound pretty specific to producing the magnetic disks used in hard drives. I don't see any reason why this would also work for silicon processes.
That description states a resolution of 1920x1200 instead of the 2560x1440 on these panels. I think 1920x1200 looks pretty awful on a 24" monitor, so I'm sure it will look even worse on one that is 3" larger. It's a…
Depending upon how this evolves, it could cause legal issues for employers who make postings. It's illegal to discriminate by a lot of personal information such as nationality, age, race, whether they have children. All…
It doesn't fit. The RJ-45 connector nearly the same size (possibly larger) than the edge of the retina MacBook Pro.
On OS X, you get clang and llvm-gcc in XCode 4.1, which is a solid 1.4 GB download. You're absolutely right about clang being pretty lightweight, so it's getting a bad wrap by association. I'm honestly not sure why…
I hate requirements like that. My hunch is that they the SE team hasn't put a ton of thought into the account creation process because they also support OpenID. I didn't even realize that you could login to…
Same problem here. It showed up again after Command + Tabbing out of Chrome and switching back in. It's humorous that the custom cursor fails in the one case where it's identical to my default cursor.
Can you suggest a good Illustrator alternative for Linux? I've tried a few and was never satisfied largely because the GUIs were very difficult to use. Perhaps I tried the wrong ones!
I was just at a kickoff event in NJ as a mentor as well. Do you mind sharing which? I was at the one hosted by Montgomery High School.
Building from source isn't necessarily a bad thing: some Linux packages have the same behavior (e.g. Portage, on which MacPorts is based). There are pros and cons to both approaches. Package management is definitely a…
Now we know for sure why Google removed the "+" operator: it's used for the "direct connect feature." E.g. if you search for +pepsi you're redirected to Pepsi's Google+ page.
> By the way, a 2880×1800 15" panel merely (well …) has 230 PPI. Apple couldn’t even call it a Retina display. Whether a display is "retina" or not depends upon how far the display is from your eyes. I could…
That problem is inherent with posting something online. The best any service can do is make it difficult for someone to accidentally violate their friends' privacy. This, in my opinion, is where Google+ is failing:…
Only allowing the owner to share an album is a false sense of security. If someone can see your album, they could just as easily download the photos and make them public. Instead of disallowing it outright, I'd rather…
If you're using a password management utility, root access to the filesystem isn't enough because all stored passwords are encrypted a password that is never stored on disk. One example of this, I believe, is Keychain…
If I am not misinterpreting the article and, "his driving privileges were returned...after 10 days..." is the time between receiving the letter and having his name cleared, I am impressed that the government moved that…
Well, that explains a lot. Every time I attempt to accomplish something on Facebook, one of two things happens: (1) the interface has changed in some way or (2) the feature is broken. Just last week, every "Load More"…
That's four hours per day averaged over the entire study. These statistics are more telling: "Employed persons worked an average of 7.5 hours on the days they worked. More hours were worked, on average, on weekdays than…