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I literally wrote hand-written letters to IBM asking questions about BASIC. Later: Borland Pascal came with a glorious full bookshelf of printed documention, and instant-access con…

Why?

Did that happen?

Not really. Electrons do have mass, but a device powered by an electric current will generally have the electrons flowing out at the same rate that they flow in.

> poultry feathers or hog hair Yum! I'm not sure the truth is all that much less disgusting than the myth.

If these points are true, then why has X been spun off into a separate entity (just "X", under the Alphabet holding company, with increasing separation from Google)?

If you're talking about making a map of the astrophysical or cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves -- you're right. As you integrate (i.e. capture more data), the noise w…

> Does that mean Apple is worth less than its market cap? Yes.

Obligatory shuttle reading: http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm

> quicksort O(log(n)). Quicksort is O(n log n) average case and O(n^2) worst-case.

> It's the top of the bell curve that matters. I think that this attitude has gotten us into a pretty big mess.

I take it you haven't read "Go Set a Watchman"...

> at least one having MD License Plates Don't vehicles used by federal agencies typically bear U.S. Government license plates?

It's the Department of Computer Science, not the Department of Programming.

Lost 76% of its value... And still valued at nearly a billion dollars.

Regular expressions strike me as a far more fundamental CS concept than Unicode.

Doing laundry in Poland, I was grateful for the standard icons, whose meaning a quick Google search revealed.

The standardized laundry icons are way better than the alternative (no standard icons, or verbose text in a potentially foreign language).

SkyMall is back!

Jarringly different in style than the rest of the site.

>>I'm a junior college student doing some side projects[0] while taking 21 credits, jogging daily, going to mandatory club events, etc. Those except side projects take more than 40…

In the United States, for example. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/who-owns-patent-right...

Another question: How do you develop a side project when your employer insists that it owns all intellectual property you produce? Edit: As far as I know this is a very standard cl…

Since it's a character in Unicode's "private use area," its correct rendering is unspecified. (That code point's "use and interpretation may be determined by private agreement amon…