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yes, LISP. That's also what I was thinking. At least Mathematicians get no ))))))) :)

I've done this many times. This is special case that happens if you test with values inside the code. The compiler that I use, Visual C++, is smart enough to know that the result can be known at compile time, so it does just that in (Release). What you need to do is to read the arguments from a file or standard input.

I followed your advice. I've been working for 1 hour successfully!! I used this and saved a lot of setting up time : http://virtualboxes.org/images/debian/

hahaha :)

Isn't too much open-source also a bad thing? I think we are doing ourselves a disservice by creating open source software that automates the job of the programmer. It eliminates a lot of programming jobs. Many programmers learn to be "modifiers" instead of creators and so they never really learn... And besides, look at other professions. Is the plumber, the carpenter, the doctor, the lawyer giving you some service for free? There is a one way relationship going on here. Of course, it's easier for us to give stuff away because code, like data, can be copied easily. It's not the same kind of service but it's still something to think about.

How much did you pay?

I am a Windows user but I am seriously considering buying a small mac computer (maybe macbook air but I want more ram) for open-source development. It's no surprise that today, many tools, many functional languages work best on Linux and MacOS. All the screencasts I watched recently were on MacOSX. I tried many things to have it both ways : VMWARE with Ubuntu : X Server crashes every time when I use the browser VMWARE with Mint/Fedora : Crashes before that VMWARE with MacOSX : The whole thing went into a crashing loop after 10 minutes.

Back to my snappy W7 I am.

yes please! There's got to be a C++ framework out there to test. Casablanca?

I wanted to stay in school for the social life. The master degree was interesting as well, I can't say it was time wasted. I have no regrets. Thinking about the PHD now.

contra or contre?

Oops, wrong copy paste!

Jedi Knight II and Jedi Academy are amazing games. I was playing them on my old 400mhz G4 computer back in the day! They played fine! When I switched to an AMD64, it was perfect! I will be taking a look at this :)

Given the speed of a SSD, how long does it take to format it? Must be pretty fast

A radio station was giving away bitcoins if you only liked their facebook page not too long ago... I gave mine to a friend :( This is madness!

I hope I didn't make the website crash. I can't access it right now. Tried Asm, D, Tcl, Scala, Jquery... Crashed at JQuery. Odd

This. I am 80 % vegetarian. I eat beans/pasta/rice and other vegetables for most of my calories. I love it and it's healthy and cheap, 2 things I like. With good diet publicity and low prices on key foods, this kind of diet should become attractive to more people...

I don't think he's worried abotu the ads. He's just saying he's getting away with most of Facebook features without having to tell them his exact name and personal information.

hehehe, that sums it up :)

I just work in a public place like a college cafeteria and I fall in love 100 times in a day watching beautiful women. That's even more disturbing than the noise. I still get work done.

" Sogen Kato, Tokyo's oldest man, as found on his 111th birthday. Kato did not respond to our requests for an interview. "

hidden joke. I'm glad I caught it.

This article is probably not written by the CS department!

I played Warcraft 3 and the same trick was used to surround a hero with ghouls. Since ghouls are also the unit that gathers lumber for the Undead Race, they enter a no-collision state when you right click on a tree. This behavior was patched because it was too strong. You would just click on a tree behind the enemy hero and all your ghouls would pass through all the other units (footmen for example) and they could surround the hero and kill him. Once you kill the hero in Warcraft 3, there's no point fighting anymore :P

Even if you had achieved that, you would memorize the multiplication tables eventually!

To me it seems really silly to spend 100K to learn things that are only at a Bachelor's level. People who did their bachelor's in other countries like France or Sweden, for free, are learning the same things from scientific papers right now. Even if the Bachelor degree is harder or better, there is no difference in the end because it's only Bachelor level stuff.

Harvard or MIT cannot make you into a powerful machine. The most important thing to achieve a big scientific career is to be born with the genetics and the willpower to work. It seems that going to Harvard or Stanford takes care of the latter part since you are betting your life on a few years of your life and you are taking extraordinary debt to do so. If you're getting it all for free, you probably won't work as hard right? But after a few years, if you go to the master degree or the doctorate, what difference does it make? None.

best 404 page i've seen ! I ended up playing.

Code is pretty neat. I thought you'd need more lines than this. http://www.romainbrasier.fr/js/lemmings.js

Great story. You didn't stay in Canada? :)

Decent letter, I'm glad someone from the Senate stepped up. I would add this :

Seventh, really? 35 years for a kid who learned his lesson and didn't do something horrible in the first place? Some decency and common sense people.

"Normal people have like a mental secretary" So jealous

Anyone with A.D.D who's taken drugs here? Do you remember what it feels like? I haven't taken any, how do they make life different? I will say this however, I've found that a moderate dose of alcohol (1 pint of beer) usually makes me focus better/more discipline and I'm able to resume working on my master thesis. Usually, I cannot work on it because it's almost over(in my head it's over) and I want to do something else.

I am currently pursuing an academic career but I really feel that I would have been better at doing something simpler, like sports. Short tasks, competition, and recognition are very important for me.

I remember Bill Maher being very critic of Obama, then completely switching into full Democrats-must-win mode because the Republicains were way worse =/