uhno

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by uhno 12y ago
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 alias analysis has been shown to be NP-hard [1] (as are many o
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Ask HN: What are current CS subfields in their infancy?
2 points by uhno 12y ago|1 comments
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by uhno 13y ago
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/questions/58172/how
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by uhno 13y ago
>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 through luck and Googling. This isn't uni
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by uhno 13y ago
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/netmit/wordpress/projects/spectr.
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by uhno 13y ago
Another userspace tool for process checkpointing is DMTCP: http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/ . From the About page: "DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) is a tool to transparently checkpoint the state of multipl
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by uhno 13y ago
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 changing people's opinions. The argument against cam
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by uhno 13y ago
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 about it https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by uhno 13y ago
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 programming and operating systems on multiple level
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Introduction to wireless channel models and OFDM [pdf](groups.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by uhno 13y ago|0 comments
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by uhno 13y ago
Which class was this, and are any of the notes or project assignments available online? That sounds like a fun project.
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by uhno 13y ago
Not signing off on the plea bargain is precisely the definition of remaining neutral: not influencing the proceedings.