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by barik 15y ago
Given that almost all files on RLSLOG: http://www.rlslog.net/ use FileSonic for downloading copyrighted material, I was wondering myself how long it would be before FileSonic either shutdown or disabled sharing entirely. I'm sure there ar
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by barik 15y ago
I agree, if the intent is for pedagogical purposes (as in this case), the use of pre-increment and post-increment operators should probably be avoided. A good rule of thumb is that if you find yourself having to say "and" too many times whe
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by barik 15y ago
The study you are thinking of is "The Camel Has Two Humps" by Dehnadi and Bornat, which was never officially published (and having read it, has several control issues that are cause for concern with respect to internal validity). However, m
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"PLC systems are designed by electrical engineers who started out in that or something else and don't know about much on the Joel Test. But I can be proven wrong." That's probably true, given that PLCs were originally for electrical enginee
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Siemens has quite a peculiar bit of software; it is the only product that I have seen that requires you reboot BEFORE installation of every single Siemens product. I think installing all of the Siemens software requires something like 15 re
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by barik 15y ago
It's not really as useful as you make it out to be, since PLC code doesn't exist in isolation; there is __usually__ corresponding hardware. Unless you plan on magically "rolling back the hardware" changes as well, rolling back the software
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"I was in a class taught by this guy and I seem to recall him saying that a large (20-40%) of embedded developers he surveyed reported using no version control software." Yeah, but that's a vendor issue; it's not that the Engineers don't wa
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by barik 15y ago
Almost all PLCs have back doors. Just because it uses Ethernet doesn't mean it does anything fancy. Almost all the PLCs I am aware of simply wrap existing RS 232 protocols over IP from the 80s and even earlier. Most of the plants actually s
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by barik 15y ago
Almost all startups, small companies, and even large companies that I've worked at have had some level of software piracy in their organization. Of course, I could just be unlucky in where I've worked, but it's always been rationalized away
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We are researchers at North Carolina State University. Help participate in research by spending a few minutes or more playing a variation of a popular online game, Scrabble. Playing our game will help us improve the design of games in many
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Everyone likes scrabble.. right? Help researchers improve AI.(ciigar.csc.ncsu.edu)
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There is some literature in other fields. Sjoberg, in "A Survey of Controlled Experiments in Software Engineering" did similar studies in software engineering to compare with other fields such as medicine and the social sciences. This surve
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It turns out, at least for me, that the courses themselves have been widely available in various formats (such as through MIT OpenCourseWare), so that by itself isn't new. The main difference that I've seen is that I think Stanford not only
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by barik 15y ago
I don't mind it. It's well known from teaching that reading about something and actually doing something (even if it is the same something) is incredibly important. I find that writing the MATLAB code, even if it's just translating a known
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by barik 15y ago
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but if you know the material, does it matter how you acquired that knowledge? Many Universities do allow credit-by-examination because of this very reason.
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It seems that there is a digital divide between universities that "get it", and universities that don't. I applaud universities like MIT and Stanford for opening up education for everyone. Other universities, like NC State and Georgia Tech,
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by barik 15y ago
Looks interesting, but I'm leery of offers that require me to re-tweet or Facebook a specific posting. I'm not even certain how they would verify that I've done so.
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by barik 15y ago
If open source is too much work, you can also publish in trade journals. For example I published an article on JSR-170 for IBM DeveloperWorks in 2006 when I was unemployed. It took about a weekend to write, and IBM paid me $600 for the piec
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by barik 15y ago
I can only speak personally of the individuals I know who have done this at NC State. The cost per semester is $1,802.17 for one class. The average time that I've seen for the people who've tried this approach has been between 1 and 2 semes
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by barik 15y ago
"Start with the library, that's free" The library doesn't reset your resume. This does. You don't actually need to finish the degree, find a job while in school.
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by barik 15y ago
One trick to avoid this gap is to re-enroll in school, at least until you can secure work again. You may have to take loans in the short term, but depending on the loan the interest may be 0% or near 0% while you are out of work. You might
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by barik 15y ago
I haven't had the need to write assembly language programs in years. However, I've still found x86 assembly quite useful to know due to having to reverse engineer binaries and DLLs. So knowing x86 still has some practical value, and with re
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I chuckled when rotating the image and seeing the Dell laptop in the back.
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I'll also chime in and say that Prolog is an interesting language to experiment with even if you don't use it for anything else later. It is said that there are some languages that change the way that you think about programming -- Prolog i
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by barik 15y ago
I actually use a version of FeedDemon ( http://www.feeddemon.com/ ) which is essentially a desktop application that can integrate with Google Reader. So technically, the answer is between "Yes", and "No, but I do use another RSS reader on a
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by barik 16y ago
Yes, you probably did something wrong. If you want to have a job after graduation, the surest path is to do an internship or coop while you are still in school. Surprisingly, it doesn't have to be much either. One summer is usually sufficie
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"The plastic casing is brittle and just breaks off after a certain amount of time" This is apparently a known issue with certain models of the Macbook. I had mine replaced free of charge as well, even though I'm out of warranty. Apple is aw
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by barik 16y ago
How difficult is to cancel Mozy and still get a refund on an annual plan? It looks like refunds aren't automatic with Mozy upon cancellation.
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by barik 16y ago
Related to this, I've found most text books aren't the best way to learn the material since they don't actually provide answers to solutions. You get the theory but little followup practice to apply your understanding of that theory. Are th