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by cschmidt 15y ago
Here's the SODA paper: http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/~dina/pub/soda12.pdf
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by cschmidt 15y ago
This paper is making some waves in Operations Research circles: We solve a 20-year old problem posed by M. Yannakakis and prove that there exists no polynomial-size linear program (LP) whose associated polytope projects to t
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On linear programming formulations for the TSP polytope(spokutta.wordpress.com)
1 points by cschmidt 15y ago|1 comments
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by cschmidt 15y ago
I'm not sure that post is 100% correct. Reading it gave me a bad feeling that it missed something I'd read in the past. See here for example ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741820/assignment-operat... The = operator is only a "top
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by cschmidt 15y ago
For me, Django.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Keep going. Until the important libraries catch up, you should be using 2.7 for doing most projects at the moment. You won't have wasted much learning in the mean time. Happy New Year.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
The author is one of the world's experts on the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP). He has a new book on the TSP written for the general audience coming soon. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9531.html
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The Problem of the Traveling Politician: a TSP around Iowa(campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com)
19 points by cschmidt 15y ago|2 comments
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by cschmidt 15y ago
easyDNS is Canadian. EDIT: they have an interesting blog post on SOPA: http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the...
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by cschmidt 15y ago
My son liked "Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners", which teaches python. He preferred it to Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way".
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Yes, it costs money. I've used the Mac version for several years now, and the windows version for maybe 10 years before that. I think I've had my money's worth. Given that it works for me better than anything else, the cost is nothing. I do
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by cschmidt 15y ago
I like Araxis Merge, especially the edit in place feature. http://www.araxis.com/merge_mac/index.html It does directory comparison. Kaleidoscope seemed pretty, but not as powerful.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
It is hard psychologically to realize you can never built the set as intended again. You end up lots of sets in big ziplocs. We've finally moved most of our son's legos into a single big bin, but he was opposed to it for a long time.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
I think my 4 year old girl is going to greatly prefer their new legos. Right now, she plays with Duplos, and all is well. However, I can see a day when legos are "too boy". That's just what they reported happening in the Lego studies. D
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by cschmidt 15y ago
I didn't see your comment until much later. I was just assuming that was a given. Of course if you know you're low in vitamin D, you should be taking vitamin D pills, as I do.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
I'd suggest a Fastmail.fm account instead. Their TOS says: This Service is provided to individuals who are at least 18 years old or minors who have parental permission to open and maintain an account. I think I read some
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Yes, Mythbusters is unscientific... http://xkcd.com/397/
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Well, many people (including me) are low in vitamin D, because we spend so much time indoors. My dermatologist said (only partially joking) that if you're aren't deficient in vitamin D, you're not using enough sunscreen.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
If whoever created this stops by, I got an error message on this snippet: import itertools name_generator = itertools.imap("name-{}".format,itertools.count()) # to get the next name: new_name = next(name_generator)
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by cschmidt 15y ago
I've used Pragmata and then PragmataPro for over 10 years now. It was always the most expensive programmer font, but totally worth it. If you think about how many hours each day I looked at it, the cost was nothing. Now the developer want
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PragmataPro the ideal programming typeface becomes open source(indiegogo.com)
1 points by cschmidt 15y ago|2 comments
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Bootstrap has saved me so much time. After using it, I'm wondering why everyone is so interested in having a custom look. Web design at the moment feels like desktop computers before GUI's became standardized. Why does a menu look differ
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by cschmidt 15y ago
>What kind of pedantic asshole cares if the main benefit of fair trade is a sense of superiority? > And it's quite something to claim the sense of smugness some people feel is a bigger deal than higher prices for farmers! Whoa, plea
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by cschmidt 15y ago
He's saying that the main benefit of fair trade to the consumer is a sense of superiority or reduced guilt over those who drink "regular" coffee. That sort of benefit always strikes me as a bit of a "luxury good" as well, in the sense tha
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Yes, indeed. It is truly the smart person's news source. There's also an audio edition, where they read the entire issue word for work, which is the best way to spend a long commute. (It takes 8 hours or so.) It is free for subscribers o
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Glenn Fleishman wrote this article, according to his tweets. (His twitter account is great fun to follow.) There are also other writers who post under the Babbage name.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Wow, that's a big list of guys. You have to go down many pages to get to 'bane' before you can find a female.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
It does have an f2.4 lens, so it should be good in lower light.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Absolutely. I think spending some time looking around dribble is a great way to find people. It seems to be where designers hang out these days.
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by cschmidt 15y ago
Sorry, of course it is. I wasn't thinking straight.

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