Michael Ekstrand

Minneapolis, MN

Age: 27

Ph.D student in computer science, studying human-computer interaction and recommender systems. FP (currently Scala, previously OCaml) hacker. Programmer for 15 years.

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How do I disable the global application menu?

unity appmenu asked Oct 30 '10 at 18:50

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38 votes

Why is volatile not considered useful in multithreaded C or C++ programming?

c++ c multithreading volatile c++-faq asked Mar 20 '10 at 22:10

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17 votes

What is the difference between JavaConverters and JavaConversions in Scala?

scala collections scala-collections asked Nov 28 '11 at 20:34

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9 votes

How can I have a Maven dependency on the runtime classpath but not the test classpath?

java maven-2 maven dependencies asked Jan 27 '11 at 21:47

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9 votes

Place interesting tags list in a consistent location

feature-request tags advertising user-interface asked Mar 23 '10 at 12:40

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7 votes

Do aluminum rims provide better braking than steel ones when wet?

brakes rims rim-brake asked Jun 8 '11 at 13:03

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How does rooting work?

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5 votes

In Riven, does the chair with the round metal cage do anything?

myst-series asked Aug 17 '10 at 1:15

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5 votes

What is the advantage to hosting static resources on a separate domain?

domains cdn asked Jan 26 at 5:26

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