You might find Apophenia ( http://apophenia.info/ ) useful. A simple exam is here: http://apophenia.info/eg.html

Shit. I wish I had mod points today. I'd mod you "overrated" just for fun :)

Lollipop is way more aggressive at saving battery life than all Android predecessors. For my tastes, this is a Big Deal. As a result, I'm thinking of keeping my Nexus 4 at least another year before I consider upgrading.

The proles, apparently.

I *used* to think car lights were easy to replace, since my first cars were early 1990s Saturns where you only needed to unscrew the cover and replace the headlight bulbs. It was almost as easy as changing a lightbulb in your house. And then I tried the same on my wife's Honda Civic, which was, well, not as trivial, and obviously by design.

No, he/she IS on the spot. Remember, the slide rule was mainly a source of inspiration, which help the GP understand relationships between numbers and motivated GP to learn more. Choice quote:

I did a 180 on math subjects - even without using the slide rule.

It is not a "learning styles" issue. Learning styles is a fiction.

I think Knuth's "made-up" assembly code looks generic to anyone who knows any assembler at all. I first saw assembly language in a Commodore 128 book decade ago, and reading the first few pages allowed me the grasp the big picture for Knuth's MIX language.

And I think you're incorrect about TeX vs LaTeX. Try to write your resume in LaTeX. TeX takes the pain out of LaTeX when you want to exercise good taste.

This is not at all true. The opposite is true. The latest kernel works perfectly fine on any 15 year old x86 machine.

This is true. However, getting a laptop with ECC RAM straight from the manufacturer is never an option, and impossible when RAM is soldered onto the motherboard. I think if Apple started using ECC RAM, and advertised it, others might follow suit (like with the "retina" displays).

It was the class of 1994, which entered college in 1990. So the article is correct. I was in the class of 1994 at a different college, and saw my first web browser in early 1994. Before that I used Wais and Gopher. Most of my classmates learned about IRC sometime in 1991-1992, not before. AOL was not a household name before 1990.

I totally agree with you. Please report the same on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. It's a shame the Linux kernel is written in C and does not benefit from this.

Here's one of countless reasons why you should learn C++.
std::thread([&](){ do_something(local_arg1, local_arg2); }).detach();
Write me the equivalent in C.

Wow! You should mention this on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. The Linux kernel is LOADED with threads, all written in C. You will certainly save the kernel developers lots of time when they switch. Please write back and tell me how it goes.

I don't have enough field knowledge to combat every ridiculous claim, coming from either side.

I'd be interested in hearing an example of a "ridiculous" claim from the side which thinks global warming is real.

C'mon, now. C++ needed the relatively recent "move constructor" to solve a serious inefficiency when doing, say for example, complicated matrix arithmetic using classes (created in the most obvious way). Before this, there were hacks, like template metaprogramming. The reputation of C++ is well-deserved, even if all of that stuff is fixed now.

Incorrect. The variable "a" is a pointer. The problem above is that "a" and "b" have different types-- "a" is a const pointer, while "b" is not.