"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." -- Blaise Pascal
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Let me start off by saying that I have the uttermost respect for all the faculty members of the fantastic Cornell Computer Science Department. I have been enjoying the education ever since I came here and I've become a much better budding software engineer / computer scientist than I was only half a year ago, thanks to all the amazing professors, TAs, and classmates from and with whom I have been learning.
However, I've noticed a trend that is making me quite uneasy. The CS curriculum, for some reason, is becoming easier. The hard courses are still pretty hard, but the easier courses, in particular CS1110 and CS2110, which traditionally together make up an introductory sequel which a student has to complete before he can affiliate with the computer science major, have been made easier.
As most CS majors probably know, CS1110 has undergone a major redesign over the last summer. Before the 2012-13 academic year, CS1110 w
| # Adopted from: https://github.com/dansdom/extend | |
| # Translated using js2coffee | |
| extend = -> | |
| options = undefined | |
| name = undefined | |
| src = undefined | |
| copy = undefined | |
| copyIsArray = undefined | |
| clone = undefined |
| getExtension = (filename) -> | |
| i = filename.lastIndexOf '.' | |
| return if i < 0 then '' else filename.substr (i+1) |
| baseName = (str) -> | |
| base = new String(str).substring(str.lastIndexOf("/") + 1) | |
| base = base.substring(0, base.lastIndexOf(".")) unless base.lastIndexOf(".") is -1 | |
| return base |
| # for erlang | |
| apt-get install fop | |
| apt-get install libncurses5-dev | |
| apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk | |
| apt-get install unixodbc-dev | |
| apt-get install g++ | |
| apt-get install make | |
| apt-get install libssl-dev |
| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| import SimpleHTTPServer | |
| import SocketServer | |
| from argparse import ArgumentParser | |
| import socket | |
| parser = ArgumentParser( | |
| description='Serve static files in the current directory.') |
| // Compile with rustc 0.9-pre (727b70d 2013-11-17 21:11:24 -0800) | |
| #[feature(managed_boxes)]; | |
| extern mod extra; | |
| use extra::json; | |
| use std::io::stdio; | |
| use extra::serialize::Encodable; |
| fn split_owned_vec<T>(mut v: ~[T], index: uint) -> (~[T], ~[T]) { | |
| assert!(index <= v.len()); | |
| let new_len = v.len() - index; | |
| let mut new_v = vec::with_capacity(v.len() - index); | |
| unsafe { | |
| ptr::copy_nonoverlapping_memory(new_v.as_mut_ptr(), v.as_ptr().offset(index as int), new_len); | |
| v.set_len(index); | |
| new_v.set_len(new_len); | |
| } |
| extern mod extra; | |
| extern mod sync; | |
| use sync::mutex::{StaticMutex, MUTEX_INIT}; | |
| use std::os; | |
| static mut LOCK: StaticMutex = MUTEX_INIT; | |
| fn work() { | |
| for _ in range(0, 10000000) { | |
| unsafe { |