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I'm a student at UMD right now, and pretty frustrated to find out about this. IMO, the university should do a lot more than just providing a year's worth of credit monitoring, beca…

I've been running into this problem with my 2013 MBA. It happens on wake, and the only that fixes it is a reboot. I'm getting pretty fed up with the issue since it's tanking my bat…

The "too much time has passed" bound on each iteration guarantees that you don't end up running an iteration forever, and makes the algorithm O(2^N), since the number of programs u…

The vast majority of Crossfitters are not at a level of physical fitness and mental toughness that would put them at risk of rhabdo after a WOD. They'd throw in the towel long befo…

I found the video lectures for this course extraordinarily boring compared to the Stanford algorithms courses taught by Roughgarden. Sedgewick is a brilliant computer scientist, bu…

For the iOS gmail app you can choose to be notified for all new mail or "primary" only. I'm not sure about using a built-in client like the Mail app though.

I've been taking notes in LaTeX and keeping them in source control recently. I still prefer to take notes during lectures by hand, but usually within a week of a lecture I'll trans…

It's a sad situation, and the officer never should have fired his sidearm at the dog, but to be fair to them, they didn't just shoot the dog with no provocation - the dog lunges 2 …

MBA's really are the best ultrabooks money can buy right now. I'd say the X1 Carbon from Lenovo comes close, except if you want comparable specs you'll have to shell out a lot more…

I allowed myself to Google everything and got 23,100 points. I got 3 out of the 5 locations basically exactly correct. The challenge is here: http://www.geoguessr.com/?s=eyJ0b3RhbF…

Sometimes it's not so straightforward to split up large into many small tasks. A lot of the time these steps will depend on other unpredictable factors, which leads to a lot of bac…

I use an app called pocket informant on my phone. It's a nice all-in-one organizer that supports GTD-style tasks and syncs with my Google calendar.

I think the rigidity of this system is its biggest drawback, as is the case with most productivity systems. For example, if I have two large projects that I need to get done and I …