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| 2001/10/21 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Academia/GradSchool] UID:22784 Activity:high |
10/19 How do I reserve 306 Soda? I'd like to get a room to get a bunch of
people to study for the GRE. Thanks.
\_ http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Resguide/CS/sodasched.shtml
( http://www.cs , then click on "Room Reservations")
\_ Make sure you press the "Login" button first, then go back to
that page and you'll be able to view current reservations for
all reservable Soda rooms. If you're looking for a place to do
a group study session, I strongly recommend against 306, which
is not set up for group interaction; try 310, 320, 373, 380,
405, or 606. On a somewhat related note, HKN has been running
some review sessions for the CS Subject Test; the last one is
this Thu at 6:30 in 306, for 170/172 material. |
| 2001/10/21 [Uncategorized] UID:22785 Activity:moderate |
10/19 PacBell's WirePro costs $$$. Is that really necessary?
\_ Send them email asking them to make it free.
\_ you got an appt? landlords are responsible for inside wiring.
besides, you can kick in wirepro the day before you need it. |
| 2001/10/21 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:22786 Activity:moderate |
10/19 If, on the GRE you're asked to answer a bunch of recurrence problems,
is it better to solve them by the master theorem (which I hate) or
the iterative method (which works but takes WAAAY too much time)?
\_ learn to like the faster way. |
| 2001/10/21 [Industry/Jobs, Industry/Startup] UID:22787 Activity:high |
10/19 They are laying off 5 people in my group within the next two
weeks? Don't know who yet, they won't tell us. What should I do
in preparation?
\_ How many in your group? Work on your resume. Start your job
search now. Don't wait to get axed. If you have, uh, "special
access", abuse it and read HR and Finance's email to see who is
on the black list. BTW, you're not the person from a few months
ago posting that his startup was the one going to make it but who
refused to post the url, are you? The one who thought that only
slackers get cut in layoffs and good people are always retained?
The one who thought that only bad companies with all bad people go
under or can't get VC these days?
\_ No, that was me.
\_ Hi, you!
\_ are you a homosexual?
\_ Are you Aspolito? If not, why do you care?
\_ Yeah, got my resume and will probably take vacation before
the job search(but already know what companies to go for).
I was asking more about "other" preparations. Never been
have "special access".
laid off. Anything I need to do, at work? Actually, I do
have "special access" but I'm trying to resist. 25 in group.
\_ make sure you can collect unemployment.
\_ At times like these you have to protect yourself. Knowledge
is power and all that. Under normal circumstances I would
say don't do it but you need to know. Go read their mail.
Don't get caught. And whatever you do, don't *ever* tell
*anyone* you did it. As far as "other" things you can do,
there's not much non-job-search related things to do. You
might want to look into opening a roll over account for your
401k if you have one and do the 30 seconds of research looking
into health care costs if they don't extend your health to
more than the end of the month. Basically, just get your act
together financially. Don't make any big purchases. Even
if you don't get cut this round, you might get cut 3 months
from now if you're in a public company (the next financial
quarter). And whatever happens, DON'T TRUST THE BASTARDS!
Everything you're getting told may or may not be true and
you'll only be told things that benefit the company if you
believe them. Figure out the real deal on your own. And
seriously, best of luck, the job market is really tough right
now.
\_ usual common sense stuff. archive your files. clean up your
mail spool. sanitize your files. remove your personal objects
from the office. basically make sure there's nothing left that
might embarass or incriminate you later.
\_ Careful cleaning out your physical space. You don't want them
thinking you're all set to get axed and do you instead of
someone else. Bring home anything expensive or of personal
value but leave up all the calendars, posters, doodads and
other crap you won't miss. Don't make it look like you already
got chopped. Perception is reality and all that. |
| 2001/10/21 [Academia/Berkeley/Classes] UID:22788 Activity:high |
10/21 You are required to know recursion before taking CS 61a? Where
would they learn it aside from CS 3? AP CS?
\_ I didn't know what recursion was my freshman year when I took
61a. It took me all but 5 minutes to look it up in SICP and I
passed the test. Never took CS 3 or AP CS.
\_ Damn, you're cool!
\_ Many people did the same. Maybe you're just !cool.
\_ what language did you answer the question with?
\_ C
\_ manly men just do the inductive proof (2nd question).
\_ This is no longer available. As of a couple of semesters ago,
they changed the test to have 2 recursion questions only. Too
many incompetent people made it into the class on induction and
then had to be dragged along for the semester.
\_ are you serious? so people are forced to already know a
programming language (including pseudo-code), then? that is
so dumb.
\_ Why is that dumb? That's what CS3 is for. If you think
CS3 is too slow paced and you're "bright", do what the
guy above did and spend a few hours reading up in on
recusion in any basic programming/cs textbook.
\_ the issue is not knowing recursion or not. it's knowing
a programming language. CS61A is not about learning
Scheme, and SICP isn't designed to "teach Scheme". It's
stupid if you're expected to be able to express recursion
without knowing a programming language beforehand.
mathematical induction seems fine to me. if students
have trouble, they should be discouraged from continuing
on (which is what we did when I was a 61A TA), but they
shouldn't be kicked out automatically. of course, I
haven't seen any of the current entrance exams, so maybe
it's not as bad as I think. |
| 2001/10/21 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:22789 Activity:very high |
10/21 If I ssh into machine A and then ssh into machine B and then back
into machine A, is that slower than if I ssh into machine A and
stay there?
\_ Yes, in theory but if your pipe from you to A is smaller than the
pipe A <-> B it may not matter much. If you're only typing over
this link it won't matter at all. If you're sending data through
an ssh tunnel then it could matter a lot.
\_ What kind of answer is this? Don't answer questions you know
nothing about. The correct answer is that your latency will
be increased by double the amount of the latency of your A->B
link but your bandwidth should not be effected.
\_ The verb you're looking for is "affected."
\_ Unless your subject is psychology, you will seldom
use the word affect.
\_ wtf are you talking about? "affected" is the correct
word here. "effect" is seldom used as a verb. |
| 2001/10/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:22790 Activity:very high |
10/21 Mommy, why is Mr. Bush wearing matching pajamas and holding hands with
that short Chinese man?
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/ap/20011020/wl/1003627880china_apec_bush_xvy102.html
\_ thats cuz hes about to go to bed with the chineses.
\_ That was Clinton and Gore, pass tense.
\_ Bush loves China as much as they love him.. very little
But he needs China's support in this "war"
Bush, Sr. was in bed with China long before Clinton admin.
made it a common practice. Many ex-Bush,Sr. appointees
worked on their behalf. No one is honest in politics
\_ Sorry, you're analogy is wrong. The Bushs did
not relax technology export restrictions for
marketing department.
campaign dollars. Clinton's foreign policy
was run from the Commerce Department. Not to
say the Bushs were perfect at all, but compared
to Clinton they are/were angels.
\_ Bush Sr. traded weapons to hostile foreign
power in order to manipulate the American
public and you call them angels? Isn't this
exactly what you accuse Clinton of doing?
\_ I seem to remember something called...
wait, what was it..?? oh thats
right the Cold War. This was to
fight Communism, not line his pockets.
\_ This was to defeat Carter, not fight
Communism. Unless you are you going
to try and claim Carter was a Communist.
Communism. Unless you are going to
try and claim Carter was a Communist.
\_ More evidence Pres. Carter was inept.
He was President for petes sakes,
and had over a year to negotiate
for the release of the hostages.
\_ Was that referring to Irangate?
Didn't that happen long after Carter
was defeated?
\_ "chineses"? Is that anything like "sneezes"?
\_ Jiang is an idiot. Those commies need to learn how to improve their
marketing department. Isn't Jiang from Shanghai, and isn't Shanghai
the most cosmopolitan city in China? Some subordinate need to tell
Jiang he is an idiot.
\_ I heard that Shanghai was once the most cosmo city but not
anymore.
\_ it still is.
\_ Is that where they make all those cool movies?
\_ After watching the TV clip with everyone wearing the "traditional
style silk jackets", I have to say that the jackets made Jiang and
Bush and all the other leaders look like clowns. Don't know whose
stupid idea it was. --- Chinese
\_ Girl, you should be so lucky to be Mr. Jiang's sixth concubine! |
| 2001/10/21 [Uncategorized] UID:22791 Activity:nil 66%like:22792 |
10/21 Today is Jam Echelon Day!
http://cipherwar.com/echelon/index2.htm |