Around 2008 Prof. Mayr stopped teaching discrete mathematics. After that in most of the midterms there was a solvable problem. Often it was something like "Use the Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest paths in this graph. 10 Points" (and the exam had like 32 points).
> the professors started to introduce one problem in each exam that anyone could pass who practised a bit and / or wasn't entirely stupid.
What is considered a passing grade at one of these schools?
At my private liberal arts college in the US it was usually (but ultimately up to professor discretion):
00-59% - Fail (0.0 for GPA)
60-67% - D (1.0)
68-69% - D+ (1.3)
70-72% - C- (1.7)
73-77% - C (2.0)
78-79% - C+ (2.3)
80-82% - B- (2.7)
83-87% - B (3.0)
88-89% - B+ (3.3)
90-92% - A- (3.7)
93+ - A (4.0)
You could count any class with a D or better toward graduation, but to actually graduate you needed a 2.0 or better GPA. If you did not have it you could take additional courses to bring your GPA up, but adding on 3-credit courses when you've got 120 credits built up with a sub-2.0 GPA is typically a losing proposition. Most transferred if they were sub-2.0 by the end of their Sophomore year.
I've seen other grading scales with E's in addition to/instead of F, or minor variations on the percentages. It seems popular to give Honors courses an extra point (e.g. an A- is 4.7 instead of 3.7), particularly in US High Schools.
I don't see how one professor makes the entire program.
FWIW I did my masters there and in my opinion the way they evaluate students is suboptimal anyway - but I don't know if that's a TUM thing or a German thing.
similar story of "greatest filter in whole CS 5 year path quietly removed" here, albeit ours was actually non-programming related. It was theoretical electronics, don't ask me why we had to go through that guy - actually other students, focused on electronics had much nicer guys.
the guy was firing people out of school with passion (literally for a single dot missing in Fourier equations at one place, often with deep personal insults, nobody liked him, not even from professors.
yeah, my uni was pretty bad, all the useful stuff I learned and use daily came from my own learning, none from university. campus was a fun place and great experience though :)
Looks really nice! I'll probably switch to this.
I'm always annoyed that homesick doesn't automatically sync my local dotfiles repo with the home directory and I have to push to GitHub and then pull with homesick.
I'm German and I'd argue the complete opposite way. Older people here are totally more privacy aware than young people / my generation that haven't witnessed the Stasi.
I'm from Poland, living in UK. In Poland, older people value privacy a lot, because they remember communism, secret police and censorship, while young people don't care as much. In UK, I've heard multiple times from older people that they don't care about privacy and that they trust the government 100%, while young people are more privacy conscious.
I'm a software developer in training from west Germany. We discussed this "nothing to hide" topic in our class (ages about 17 - 30) and about half of them didn't care or even appreciated surveillance.
I wonder if you and hengheng are on opposite sides of the country? My favorite physicist I've worked with had a fascinating viewpoint on how his life changed when the wall fell.
Still really surprising for me. I would've thought Google search alone would easily outperform all of Yahoo. And then Google also has YouTube, GMail, Maps etc.
I think the comScore data may be biased; IIRC they rely on a toolbar that's installed along with crapware, and so it'll be biased toward users who are willing to put up with crapware.
jQuery might be directly cached but does that really matter? You could make the browser cache Minified.js after the first loading.
And I'm pretty sure it's faster to parse / run a 4KB script than a 30KB script.
> And I'm pretty sure it's faster to parse / run a 4KB script than a 30KB script.
That's always a dangerous assumption to make. I can guarantee you that size has nothing to do with parsing and running times. As others have already pointed out, this library is already less performant than jQuery for their needs.
