Computer Science Lounge - [Too Many Idea Men Edition]

depends on hardware and scale of workload

Hey guys I want to contact IBM recruitment because I want to talk about a coop 2018. Would any of you know how I could contact them?

This?

https://www.ibm.com/contact/us/en/?lnk=flg-cont-usen?lnk=flg

Under e-mail support it says:

General 'non-technical' questions, concerns, or Web-site feedback.

For technical questions, please see our "Support directories" section.

Wait... I am unsure. I was on the recruitment website, clicked the contact link at the bottom and that link brings you to the main IBM website and that is the link I linked....

thanks, I sent them a message maby they can redirect me to recruitment.

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Are we talking infinite cores here? In general, this tends to actually Dependant upon the algorithm. Also, because data must come from a common source and all be merged, O(n) is the lower bound on any constructible machine. So things like binary search would be better on a single core, but TSP would do better over infinite cores.

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I'm surprised the symantic SSL/TLS chrome certificate revocation hasn't been bigger news, considering the size of their reach.

Anyone else started to see emailing coming in offering free replacements for symantic certificates? I've had one from namecheap.

I havent seen that, what does a SSL/TLS certificate do and how does it work?

Certificates are used to encrypt web connections (among other things) so, https.
symantec are a giant money pit in this.

Google have found them to be mis-issuing certificates over a period of years (not necessarily maliciously), and have decided to depreciate and remove trust to existing symantec certificates

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/blink-dev/eUAKwjihhBs/rpxMXjZHCQAJ

That means over a period of time certificates before a certain date will become invalid and the https connections using them will be untrusted. they also want to revoke the extended validation immediately.

Pursuing Computer Science and Engineering 4 year Bachelor's degree.

are they single key or double key encryption?

What year are you?

Freshman,although i have been programming since a long time like junior high time.

So I assume that you are taking some sort of Java class?

Nope,not yet,Rather a C and assembly class.Would be learning java soon though.....

Interesting order, I started with Java and then took a c and c++ course. I had some assembly in a computer architecture course.

I am at the state now where they just assume you can learn any language in a day which is mostly true apart from the unique ones.

I have to agree with @chiefshane here. C and assembly seem like poor choices for starting to learn programming. Java will be more complex, but much more friendly. And their unit tests are, as I've found, a godsend. I wish I could find something in C++ that was as good.

If I may go on a tangent, Google's C++ test suit is workable, but not as good as JUnit in my experiences.

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Anyone knows any good sources like videos, books or tutorial sites that got intermediate C lessons? I'm looking for structures, algorithms related codes (stacks or queues are where i'm having problems), memory allocations and something more about pointers. I know the basic and fundamental stuff but i feel i need to study a little bit more.
I'm having some problems with applying C to my algorithm and data structures class, so any help i will appreciate it.

Will you computer scientists and engineers hurry up and automate my sysadmin job, already? I know Amazon is trying with Elastic Beanstock, but could you pick it up a little bit, so my "human capital" can be reallocated to a more beneficial and value added position like professional pie eater?

Thank you,

Lowly Sysadmin