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I'm posting from a ChromeBook pixel running at 2560 x 1700, and the UI looks great. The taskbar, UI, fonts, etc. are all scaled perfectly. Have you tried running at 2560 x 1700 on …

The author of this article quotes two bits from the speech: >We have made no mistakes about your admission. and >You all deserve to be here! The first statement is the more importa…

Qt 5.1.1 includes QtCreator 2.8.0 instead of QtCreator 2.7.2. Other than that it's just a bugfix release.

Just ordered mine. I continue to be impressed by the uses Google has found for Chrome. Building new features into Chrome gives Google the capabilities of a full desktop application…

Church? I'm not very familiar with the language but I believe it sounds similar to what you're describing. http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church

I'm one of the TAs (section leaders) for 106X this quarter. We get a pretty wide diversity of skill levels in the class, so it's tough to ensure that we challenge the experienced s…

Clang, GCC, and Intel are all described as "mostly" supporting C99. This is unfortunate, and it would be nice to see them fully supported, but developer time is limited, and not al…

I think the author could have chosen better data for this calculation. There are a few unusual factors: * Why use average income? Why not median family income? * Why use median $/s…

Haskell uses type classes to support ad hoc polymorphism, or overloading. Consider the statement: (4.2::Fractional a=> a) + (4::Float) Float is an instance of the type class Fracti…

Haskell uses type inference, but that's not the same as implicit coercion, which Haskell explicitly avoids. That is: if you type 4 + 4.2 Then the compiler will infer that you mean …

I always thought x.y.z version strings (like Firefox 3.6.3, or similar) contained a bit of extra information about how development occurs which is often ignored. When z is increase…

Amusingly enough, the phrase "don't be a pussy" originally had nothing to do with genitalia. However, time has certainly altered the word's meaning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu…

I'd go as far as to say that I've never seen a floating at the bottom, scrolling toolbar which did anything other than annoy me. They also tend to mess up the "find" functionality,…

Just sent one with the method in the post. Let me know if it works.

The numbers which really surprise me are the +74% in CS107 enrollment and +78% in CS109. CS107 is viewed as the "don't declare CS until you take it" class, and a 74% increase defin…

Amusingly enough, Professor Roberts was one of the two professors in charge of IHUM 58, my fall quarter "Introduction to the Humanities" class at Stanford. He was quite clear in st…

This isn't a hard problem to solve exactly though; anyone with a calculator that can compute logarithms can find the exact time. A bit of algebra and the formula for periodically c…