I came across an interesting discussion regarding the role math should in computer science on SIGCSE’s(ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education consisting of CS professors) mailing list. A professor starts the conversation with (I personally bolded the important bits): “I understand that discussing the role of math in CS is one of those religious [...]
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Computer Science Education and its Dependence on Math: From the Perspective of CS Professors
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Comcast Upload Timeout
I’ve been experiencing some network issues for the past few weeks. The upload for my Comcast cable internet connection would turn unresponsive for a short period of time, ranging from 2-10 seconds, every few minutes or so. This turned from an annoyance in to a huge problem after a week or so. I use Skype [...]
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Site Dugg
My previous post about AMD was dugg (made popular on the social news site http://digg.com, my home server took quite a hit but survived. My alexa ranking rocketed to 70,000 for a day or two. I’m putting together some stats right and will post later.