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(this post has latex formatting. paste it in and hit preview) You can divide by zero, but unfortunately it isn't very useful. The rationals (fractions; numbers like \frac{a}{b} ) are usually defined such that b is not zero, so suppose we get rid of this constraint. Then we can define a...

The obvious next interview question is "Talk a little bit about the memory performance of this algorithm." (C lacks tail end recursion.)

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I have about 4 years of web development experience, no degree, and was just hired at a startup. My job finding strategy cut out people like Google, Facebook, etc. Since they get so many applications, it's silly to apply to them because they can do things like cut out all people without a...

I have an ASUS G71gx with an nVidia GTX 260M, and on stock clocks (I can't even change them, so they must be stock) I get artifacting in any games I play, even sometimes in Windows. RivaTuner says clocks are 540 MHz Core clock, 1350 MHz core clock / shader, 799.20 MHz Memory, ~63'C idle...

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Can you substantiate that claim? What is the vice-versa you refer to? Where is religion useful?

Why don't you just get a portable headphone amplifier? I got one for my Senn PC350's: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.18350

buttermuffin fudging treacle teat.

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 1984 - George Orwell

Treaty of Tripoli Article 11: Secularism is not a religion, it is neutrality. To suggest that there is no separation of church and state is to ignore a long history of court battles over the very issue. Is the right to abortion spelled out in the constitution? No, but it is in Roe V...

Default position should be negative on claim of existence like god, which is why atheists are correct when they say for all intents and purposes they are correct, just like you don't know of the invisible pink unicorn in the corner of your room, it doesn't mean we should say "we just don't know"

Definitely. What is astonishing is the fact that an amateur pseudo-intellectual is trying to do what the smartest people of all time have been trying to do, and failing without resorting to obscurity and logical fallacy. Good luck. You probably won't succeed. Intuition alone is not sufficient...

No, a tautology is true under any variation. That's why it's an abstraction - the variable "A" in A=A is a placeholder for any possible value. That's how you can know that A=A without checking every "case" or valuation.

videogames101 seems to think the proposition is an inductive statement. Is it inductive or deductive?