Best cartoon ever.

2011-05-13 Thread S. Dale Morrey
I think this one speaks for itself. Caution: Avoid hot drinks before clicking. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/51811692-82/bagley-cartoon-lake-salt.html.csp Thoughts? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin.

mediawiki - Collection Extension

2011-05-13 Thread Merrill Oveson
Uphpers: Anybody out there good with mediawiki? specifically Collection Extension? I can create the book but I can't get the book to print the pdf. I'm using pediapress as the mw-serve ($wgCollectionMWServeURL = "http://tools.pediapress.com/ms-serve/";), but it gives long incomprehensible error

mediawiki - Collections Extension

2011-05-13 Thread Merrill Oveson
Pluggers: Anybody out there good with mediawiki? specifically Collection Extension? I can create the book but I can't get the book to print the pdf. I'm using pediapress as the mw-serve ($wgCollectionMWServeURL = "http://tools.pediapress.com/ms-serve/";), but it gives long incomprehensible erro

Re: Big O (was Re: Pay Range Locally?)

2011-05-13 Thread Spencer Gibb
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: > On 05/13/2011 01:44 PM, Merrill Oveson wrote: > > big-O? > > Let's say an algorithm iterates over a list, and for each element in the > list, iterates *again* over the entire list. This is O(n^2) behavior > and is usually naive. > > Another

Big O (was Re: Pay Range Locally?)

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/13/2011 01:44 PM, Merrill Oveson wrote: > big-O? The Wikipedia article makes it sound complicated. Here it is in a nutshell. Let's say you have two algorithms that do the same thing but in a different way, and you need to choose one. Big-O notation is a good way to compare the theoretic

Re: Pay Range Locally?

2011-05-13 Thread Doran L. Barton
On Friday, May 13, 2011 01:44:24 PM Merrill Oveson wrote: > big-O? Heh. You know, Big O Tires. They're a popular case study in Computer Science curricula. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation -- Doran L. Barton - Hypermoo Inc. - - 801-520-9875 Open source consulting, custom developmen

Re: Pay Range Locally?

2011-05-13 Thread Merrill Oveson
big-O? On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Eric Wald wrote: > On Thu, May 12, Robert Merrill wrote: >> >> For example: high-level schools (locally, think UofU, BYU) teach a lot >> of theory and hard math. It's good stuff, but in some corporations >> these students come out more interested in the ac

Re: Pay Range Locally?

2011-05-13 Thread Eric Wald
On Thu, May 12, Robert Merrill wrote: > > For example: high-level schools (locally, think UofU, BYU) teach a lot > of theory and hard math. It's good stuff, but in some corporations > these students come out more interested in the academics of solving > the problem than getting code to commit on de

AMPRNet

2011-05-13 Thread S. Dale Morrey
I've been looking into packet radio and wondering how AMPRNet works or better put how it fits into the picture of the internet as a whole. Also are EchoLink and AMPRNet the same? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the pe