I'm lacking direction in my job hunt. Can you recommend a specific tech recruiter?
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posted by zeek321
on May 28, 2013 -
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What are the best automata (formal language theory) simulators? This is mainly for teaching purposes. I have used JFLAP in past iterations of the class in question, and my google searches suggest this is still the best option, but I was wondering if there is anything newer and better that I'm not finding. Details below.
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posted by advil
on Jan 28, 2013 -
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I can't keep living on disability. I can't go back to school. I'm not good with people. How do I find a part-time job that I can do? Are there no very-part-time CS jobs aside from freelancing?
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posted by mock muppet
on Aug 8, 2012 -
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My situation: I think I want to return to school. Due to health problems, I left a previous education in rather poor standing - and after several years I'm considering an entirely different line of work. How do I pick up the pieces and start something new?
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posted by roygbv
on Jul 1, 2012 -
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I am (very nearly) finished with my applications to computer science PhDs, and I realized I don't really know what will happen next. Assuming I get in anywhere, what sorts of contacts with programs are in store between their decision and mine?
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posted by silby
on Dec 15, 2011 -
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A while back, there as a controversial (flamebait) blog post by a CS professor about what predicts success in programming. He had a "one-question" test that he claimed was strongly predictive.
1) The actual question was a "whats the value of variable x" after a few steps of manipulation sort of thing.
2) He interpreted it as meaning "people who get this right actually accept that the computer does exactly what you tell it to, not what you wish it to do"
Help me find this post.
posted by gregglind
on Dec 1, 2011 -
3 answers
What is the best way to use Adobe CS to chop an illustration into multiple graphic files that can later be recombined by software to recreate the original illustration?
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posted by alms
on Oct 12, 2011 -
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How much do admissions committees for cs grad programs care about GRE analytical writing scores?
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 23, 2011 -
5 answers
Help me figure out what computer science book I heard about on the web a while ago.
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posted by silby
on May 28, 2011 -
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Given my level of preparation, how reasonable is it for me to hope to get into a funded master's program in computer science? And can you suggest some schools that fund non-PhD students?
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posted by anonymous
on May 13, 2011 -
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My friends, a software engineer and a novelist, are getting married. I want to give them a puzzle to solve as a wedding gift that requires the use of both their skills.
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posted by jewzilla
on Apr 17, 2011 -
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I'm curious what unconventional things people here have done after getting a computer science PhD, and what it took to get there.
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posted by miyabo
on Apr 3, 2011 -
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I'm a fairly recent and very inexperienced computer science graduate from a great public university, and I need some job advice. At the moment, I'd like to get into game development (specifically on the iPhone side of things), but I'm also interested in music and composition, mathematical art, animation, photography, and cinema, as well as archiving to some extent. What's a good job for me, and how do I get it?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 10, 2011 -
15 answers
I get to teach myself Cryptography for a class, please help me pick my book!
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posted by zidane
on Nov 14, 2010 -
12 answers
Is it worth it to get a M.S. or a Ph.D in Computer Science? What kinds of doors would they open?
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posted by cosmic.osmo
on Jul 23, 2010 -
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I'm a philosophy major in my junior year. Should I spend my fourth year of school enjoying myself or working on a masters degree in a more practical field? Life advice desperately needed! (long, but tl;dr can be found at the bottom.)
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 25, 2010 -
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I'm about to finish second year of Software Engineering at my mid-tier Canadian university and have no intention of continuing any further. I'd like to transfer into one of the more prestigious colleges in the US, although getting in seems like a complete crapshoot given my current circumstances. What course of action can I take in the coming months that would greatly increase my chances of being accepted?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 3, 2010 -
12 answers
I'd like to find a good online resource that poses interesting computer science problems.
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posted by b1tr0t
on Apr 19, 2009 -
12 answers
Help a computer scientist find an interesting job abroad, preferably in Japan
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posted by Cogito
on Sep 30, 2008 -
2 answers
Are there any scripting / cli-compatible languages which decently provide or at least pretend to provide bit-math?
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posted by tmcw
on Sep 27, 2008 -
7 answers
I'm hoping to get into a Computer Science Masters program somewhere next fall, and am looking for some advice on bettering my chances.
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 14, 2007 -
9 answers
What are my options for combining neuroscience and computer science in a graduate school setting?
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posted by mayfly wake
on Nov 4, 2007 -
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I graduated last may with a degree in Politics from a small liberal arts school. As one might expect I have found my job prospects since then less than thrilling. I now have the opportunity to re-enroll in school for a masters program in cs.
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posted by bernsno
on Sep 7, 2007 -
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Please recommend some canonical books (or even e-books) to learn networking in general (on par with a CS major), up to an 'intermediate' level. Including stuff on wireless networking and security concerns.
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posted by philomathoholic
on Aug 31, 2007 -
9 answers
Looking for serious, modern, and fun art schools in Europe, or possibly the US.
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posted by tmcw
on Aug 10, 2007 -
5 answers
Looking for kick-ass internships in the NJ/NYC area. Background is CS, design, and a little bit of everything. The tougher the better.
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posted by tmcw
on Jul 13, 2007 -
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CS-Royalty? So I was eating lunch in Williamsburg and struck up a conversation with a guy who was about 65 or so, and he claimed the following.
- He was one of 7 developers to port DARPAnet to commercial architectures
- He had worked with almost every president since starting up work
- He has been in a Fortune 500 company as an IT higher-up and had met with Bill Gates (and told him "his product sucked")
- He went to University of Colorado and taught at MIT
His name came out something like Larry Sand-berg, but very uncertain about the last name. I'm interested in seeing if this is complete BS, or some element of truth.
posted by tmcw
on May 4, 2007 -
23 answers
I
will begin an academic program for an MS in Computer Science starting Fall, 2007. The upside is that I have a year to prepare, while the downside is that I clearly have some obstacles to overcome, which are that
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 30, 2006 -
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A while back I was implementing a distributed transaction coordinator, and in the process also learned some of the pertaining theory. The only thing I can remember semi-vividly was a proof showing that you can't synchronize an action between two parties over an unreliable link, but I can't seem to find it any longer.
The final step of the proof was something like "thus, if this was possible, you could shorten every conceivable protocol by one step, which reduces all protocols to the zero-step protocol, which is impossible".
I'm pretty sure that it's a standard result of computer science, but I'm unable to find the right keywords to locate it. Help?
posted by themel
on Aug 18, 2006 -
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Computer Sc. PhD student: Should I be worried that I am the second author in most of my publications ?
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posted by raheel
on Jul 16, 2006 -
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My computer crashed, the HD was reformatted and now when I try to use the following fonts, there gone. I use windows EX, MS office and want to use the following fonts in Photoshop CS. I would like to reinstall the following fonts; Amaze, Bangle, Bickley, Broadway, Stencil, Stop, Surfer, Wide latin, MS gothic. I don't want to pay too much, if possible -- I had the above fonts before the crash. Thanks in advance for any advice...
posted by orlin
on Mar 29, 2006 -
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Since upgrading to OSX Tiger on my Powerbook G4, Adobe Illustrator CS has been acting a little flaky. Among assorted document hangs/crashes (requiring force-quits), Illustrator keeps creating .tmp files on my desktop such as "Acr1058251.tmp". I've done a bit of googling and, as suggested, have changed my prefs to not create PDF's upon saving, but this doesn't seem to help. Have any designers out there found a solid answer to why these files are being created, and a proper fix?
posted by sharksandwich
on Jun 1, 2005 -
2 answers
I'm looking for a good computer science Ph.D. program to apply to, with strong research groups in both bioinformatics and AI.
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posted by azazello
on Nov 7, 2004 -
17 answers
I am looking for an index data structure and query algorithm to solve a specific problem. Each row in the table represents a range, with a start/end value; I want to look up all the rows that overlap a certain value.
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posted by Mars Saxman
on Oct 7, 2004 -
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