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Try: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=trying-to-f...

Oh, I missed this detail. In that case for a deterministic result I think you need to look at every possible combination. However, you can order them by the minimum criterion first…

Since the count of items is known a priori (=sizeof(S)), doesn't that mean that the mean and the sum are related in a well defined way? Basically then both critera can be simplifie…

Yeah, I would. If you have a laptop just set the max CPU speed to 80% (or whatever, Maybe if you just type emails and surf all day it's not an issue, but if you are debugging big a…

Well, I came in here to say exactly that: the paper is based on a survey of people self-reporting their past history with sleeping. Not a very good way to control the results.

Like any other development tool, you can leave the smartphone on your desk. No need to carry it around.

Unless you are saving lives (a doctor) or protecting the country (in defense), or maybe a few other edge cases, the perception that you need to get back to a person in a few hours …

Amazon and Newegg both email me after I make a purchase requesting that I review the product. They do this a little after the product is delivered--to give me a chance to use it. I…

This has been a part of the MS knowledge base for at least one year. Why is this "news" now? http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/2008/11/19/welcome...

[Boston, MA] Delsys, Inc is hiring Win32 desktop application developers. http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6580

The content (search results) mimic too closely the ad results. Using whitespace to separate them (or a thin blue line, like the google sidebar ads) may help. Icons would brighten t…

This is actually not a bad idea. I've graduated now, but I would always start taking notes on each reference at the end of my paper. So it's definitely fulfilling a need. But I wis…

Coding for GPGPU or stream processors

Unfortunately he did not credit Feynman for the 'clock' analogy, who I believe originated this way of describing quantum processes.

Wow, this article is particularly vacuous. Someone died, and someone twittered. Lets draw conclusions!

Yawn. I might as well have two browser windows open. This should ferret out duplicates and merge the two sets of results. Like a metasearch engine.

Works in Chrome 2.0 on Vista.

It's a nice trick, but I will probably stick to Ctrl-K-C (block comment) and Ctrl-K-U (block uncomment) in Visual Studio, just out of habit. I hate leaving big block comments in th…

Chrome has a nice feature where you can drag a file from any folder/your desktop and drop it onto a file input element on a web page. Unfortunately, this feature does not work in G…

This is in no way better than regular pagination. Or, if you want to eliminate a full page reload, just do the pagination in AJAX (but still allow me to link to a specific page). P…

Can't agree more. And they want me to sign up in order to see or download a plain PDF, thats not going to happen.

Source code contains (slightly NSFW) ASCII art--that's awesome. http://code.google.com/p/awib/source/browse/builds/awib-1.0r...

And this is precisely why the most recent Firefox install I have is from the 2.x series. It used to be that Firefox (then Firebird) was the lean and mean cousin of bloated Netscape…

Well from a technical standpoint you are correct. Although, if I see buggy/weird behavior on a website, right away I question what sort of hidden unsavory stuff is happening on the…

The reference implementation seems very buggy--moving my caret and having inconsistent behavior. I would certainly be hesitant to type my password on a website which is handling th…