20 Aug 2014
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This question keeps popping up on Facebook every time a fair comes around, and answers always span from “suit and tie” to “t-shirt and jeans” to “giant banana suit”.
Rutgers Career Services recently weighed in on this by emailing the entire undergrad a PDF sternly warning us that the fair is serious business where nothing less than a suit is appropriate, and inviting us to a variety of events where we can glean similar gems from presenters who have little understanding of the CS field.
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03 Aug 2014
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7 min. read
I decided to finally replace my family’s pitiful set-top DVR.
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13 Jul 2014
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3 min. read
OS X is a popular environment for Computer Science students, as is Windows to a lesser extent, but both fall short or make life unnecessarily hard when it comes to the lower level C programming required by the curriculum.
Surprises like line endings and little deviations from POSIX can be a pain to track down.
For these classes, Linux is almost mandatory. For this there are three solutions:
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07 Jul 2014
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2 min. read
A few months back I replaced the stereo receivers in a 10 and a 20 year old family car.
Fed up with the lack of auxillary input (or even CD player, on the older one), I started on what would end up being a rather straightforward project.
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29 Apr 2014
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When I remade my website with Jekyll last week, I made a project showcase page (check it out in the sidebar!).
In under twenty lines of code, I built a system for programmatically display a list of projects with descriptions, and look nice doing it.
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