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It should be possible to do that using one Ethernet port using VLANs. You could buy a cheap L2 managed switch and use it to trunk two different Ethernet networks on the same port. …

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 attende…

As someone who lives in Pittsburgh - and likes the city quite a bit - I can attest to the fact that: (1) the weather is rarely perfect, (2) the entire city is under perpetual const…

Concepts, modules, a file system library, and an asynchronous I/O library have all been discussed as additions for C++17 and beyond. Most of these features are standard in modern l…

I had this issue fixed on my mid-2012 15" rMBP. It's known issue with some of the early LG panels on that model. The technician at the Apple store ran some standard image persisten…

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 genera…

The bitfield example is misleading. Section 6.7.2.1/10 of the C99 standard says: "The order of allocation of bit-fields within a unit (high-order to low-order or low-order to high-…

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 al…

Unfortunately not. Matrix inversion (or any type of linear algebra, really) deals with real numbers. This problem is nearly a linear program, which can be solved very efficiently, …

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 t…

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 …

Matlab is much faster. For a sense of scale, a relatively simple image processing script ran 125 times faster in Matlab than Octave. This is, most likely, because Matlab has a bett…

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*…

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…

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.…

It works, but not as well as in OS X. At least as of ~6 months ago, the Linux drivers for the MBP/MBA multitouch trackpads were unpleasant to use. Everything nominally worked, but …

Just a guess: The weaker gravity (around 1/3 of Earth's gravity) makes it much easier for wind to pick dust off the ground. Once a dust storm starts, it would also take a lot longe…

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 wor…

He was being sarcastic (I hope).

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…

I personally don't see the point in iGoogle, but it was perfect for a certain demographic. Anecdotally, I know of quite a few middle-aged people who learned to use the internet whe…

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 asso…

Apples call it the "iPad 2" on their online store. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad (look at the bottom of the page)