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I'm also a college student, but not sure how much authority I have on this matter. Grades (I think) are only an approximation of your knowledge. Take them with a grain of salt, unl…

> Just making sure I won't be working with idiots. I think the the interviewer (or company) would probably take this as an insult. But I do agree with you in that these types of in…

For what it's worth, you can use the local keyword to limit the scope of variables. http://www.lua.org/pil/4.2.html

"It is unfair to label this poor quality, the author clearly describes a problem with moving a security tool like SSH into the browser." Yes, I agree. The grandparent does point ou…

I do not believe that was the point of the article. Extrapolations and technicalities aside, she is showing her perspective of why she is pissed at the cryptoparty community. Perso…

> R is currently the lingua franca for academic statisticians. New methods papers, textbooks, and toolkits are much more likely to ship with R libraries and implementations then Ma…

Maybe it'll be a Christmas present. :-)

At RIT at least, R and NumPy aren't in the core curriculum. Instead, there is a "Statistical Computing" class which covers SAS. Most students either use Minitab or Excel. Surprisin…

Good point about the karma limit. I was writing under a different assumption. What I was proposing in my earlier post was exactly as you say: explain the downvote. Maybe let everyo…

"New" members shouldn't downvote because they might not downvote the right things, or for the right reasons. I do not consider lurkers "new members." I also disagree with the idea …

That's a neat idea. -1 doesn't mean much without a comment explaining why. I do have a concern, though. If this system is implemented, doesn't that mean that the "new kids" will al…

This is a huge stretch, but will there be any support for noweb? Whenever I use LaTeX, it's usually for math/physics/stat homework where either computation or graphs are involved. …

> You wouldn't call a software architect simply 'an architect' (would you?). Yes, yes I would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect_(disambiguation) - third bullet down http://en…

So, are you saying that a discipline that does not involve the physical world cannot necessarily be an engineering discipline? Personally, I don't usually see people favoring the w…

> way too much money for what you're going to get. YMMV.

Co-op program. And networking. A lot of companies see RIT as a huge talent pool, and dedicate quite a bit of recruiting resources to look for potential interns and full-timers. Plu…

Same here, but mine is nnoremap gt nnoremap gT Normal mode tab switches through tabs. One (and two) key goodness.

Do restaurant owners recieve complaints about Asians? Gays? Muslims? Do restaurant owners recieve those complaints at the level that they do about young children? Are those complai…

If you're on Linux, there is worklog. There's a bit of initial setup with config files, but after you've done that switching tasks is as simple as (switching to your terminal and) …