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For simple cases (such as the example in the GP comment) a compiler can easily infer those annotations. Complications are introduced in languages which allow aliasing. Precise alia…

My wife (a chemist) and I were recently talking about Watson and Crick and other work that had a significant impact on the life sciences. She asked an interesting question which I …

Regarding Unity, it's fairly easy to revert to the "classic" Gnome desktop, which is a good enough approximation of the old behavior for me. See, for example: http://askubuntu.com/…

>It's not the 70's any more, people rarely solve problems on whiteboards and paper. They solve them on the computer, sometimes through knowledge and their skill-set and other times…

Sounds like MegaMIMO, which allows wireless network throughput to increase linear in the number of APs added (they call this joint multiuser MIMO): http://groups.csail.mit.edu/netm…

Another userspace tool for process checkpointing is DMTCP: http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/ . From the About page: "DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) is a tool to transp…

I don't have any strong feelings for or against coffee shop campers, but this article came across as quite self-centered. Perhaps a different approach would be more effective in ch…

Boy. This is not at all the truth. Anecdotally, what I've discovered from a year at MIT is that the norm is feeling like you don't belong (e.g. here is some previous discussion abo…

I am confused. In what sense of the phrase is this an operating system? It says things like "Node is the primary runtime---no bash here" which to me betrays a misunderstanding of p…

Which class was this, and are any of the notes or project assignments available online? That sounds like a fun project.

Not signing off on the plea bargain is precisely the definition of remaining neutral: not influencing the proceedings.