In Richard Gabriel's famous essay The Rise of Worse is Better, he contrasts caricatured versions of the MIT/Stanford (Lisp) and New Jersey (C/Unix) design philosophies along the axes of simplicity, correctness, consistency, and completeness. He gives the example of the "PC loser-ing problem" (di...

If you are voting to close a question, please explain the reason. There are some questions which are closed with no explanations in the comments (two about careers). Not everyone reads the discussions on the meta and since we don't have a FAQ it can be quite confusing for other users why their ...

I'm studying Bootstrapping from Red Dragon Book Compilers and found the T diagram for cross compiler pretty confusing. I can't understand what is meant by "Run compiler1 through compiler2". Can anyone provide some better explanation, analogy or an example to relate with some real world compiler. ...

I am writing an application that needs to retrieve all posts on any given facebook page. For the McDonald's page, I would use this url: https://graph.facebook.com/McDonalds/posts?access_token=xxx&limit=5000 The problem is that first, I do not receive any posts older than 2011-11-01 and the ...

We are given a set F={a1,a2,a3,…,aN} of N Fruits. Each Fruits has price Pi and vitamin content Vi.Now we have to arrange these fruits in such a way that the list contains prices in ascending order and the list contains vitamins in descending order. For example:: N=4 Pi: 2 5 7 10 Vi: 8 11 9 2 ...

I am having a problem trying to solve a question on a past paper asking to design a security lattice. Here is the question: The AB model (Almost Biba) is a model for expressing integrity policies rather than confidentiality. It has the same setup as Bell-LaPadula, except that L is now a set of i...

Suppose I have an array of integers having length N. How can I output all longest decreasing sequences? I know how to calculate the length of longest decreasing sequences, but don't know how to report all longest decreasing sequences. Pseudocode will be helpful.

What operations need to be performed in order to do any arbitrary analogue computation? Would addition, subtraction, multiplication and division be sufficient? Also, does anyone know exactly what problems are tractable using analogue computation, but not with digital?