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I think rigor is imposing to people when you try and combine it with high-level theory. The concepts in that article are built on top of so much theory, that to explain it all woul…

I don't see much use out of either other than as a line on a resume. With that in mind, I'd choose IEEE - more well known than ACM. (And if you're getting the type of membership pr…

The comment that the link leads directly to is devastatingly good. If you don't want to do a lot of reading, just skip the main article and read that comment.

Yes. Completely happy. As everyone else said, the export to pdf is great.

No. I think SAT score would be correlated with IQ, but not too strongly on its own (many not particularly brilliant people get high scores by preparing excessively). I think measur…

But presumably average score for each group is used. I wouldn't think the difference in average score between the 200k group, and the 220k+ group would be great enough to cause tha…

I thought the same, which caused me to click on the link they used as reference, which turned out not to work...

The only wierd thing to me is that the strength of the relationship appears to gradually weaken as income gets higher (which would make sense), but then sort of jumps up at $200,00…

Yeah, good point, my advice is not particularly general. I guess I should also add, I've found most things not particularly enjoyable until I get a minimum level of skill. So if yo…

EDIT: ugh, this is not working right. I can't figure out how to get the asterisks to not italicize ( I was trying to show an example). Variables have block scope, but storage durat…

In my experience, LONG practice sessions are much more effective than short ones. E.g., I've found I get far more out of one 8 hour practice session than four 2 hour sessions. I'd …

Thanks for elaborating. I strongly recommend you find a trusted friend/family member/mentor/etc. to talk with about your concerns. It's really difficult to get a handle on a situat…

Also... Arrays have block scope. So if you have a function that declares an array, operates on it, then returns a pointer to that array, it's undefined behaviour. This was very con…

But most people, IMO, do not think deeply about morality, they just mimic others around them. I guess that would still apply to what you said though - it would take a very complex …

What did you do that was supposed to be "impossible"? What do you mean by "attacked"? (Phyiscally?) "Controversies"? The whole thing is very vague. :-)

I highly, highly recommend the book "Programming from the Ground Up". It is freely available, and full of small asm sample programs to try out yourself. Here's a link: http://savan…

No one said otherwise.

With the exception of solving integrals, diff eqs, or other CAS things, is Wolfram Alpha particularly useful when you'd have google at your disposal? I would think no, but that's j…

but the article said: "the Supreme Court, in its 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger ruled that diversity is a permissible objective for the use of racial preferences in admissio…

what is this?

It's good writing I guess, but honestly they're trying too hard. It just sounds fake to be that over the top.

jeepers! Complimenting they guy and I get killed on the down votes??

Very well said.

How the heck is a preference in who you date "racism"? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. People have strong preferences over all sorts of superficial things - body type, …