Michael Ekstrand

Boise, ID, United States

https://md.ekstrandom.net

Assistant professor in computer science at Boise State University specializing in human-computer interaction, recommender systems, and information retrieval.

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What is the difference between JavaConverters and JavaConversions in Scala?

scala scala-collections scala-java-interop asked Nov 28, 2011 at 20:34

stackoverflow.com

187 votes

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

c++ c multithreading volatile c++-faq asked Mar 20, 2010 at 22:10

stackoverflow.com

129 votes

How do I enable or disable the global application menu?

unity appmenu asked Oct 30, 2010 at 18:50

askubuntu.com

55 votes

What terminal emulators support tmux control mode?

terminal tmux iterm asked Mar 12, 2015 at 20:12

unix.stackexchange.com

44 votes

Resources for learning practical category theory

ct.category-theory textbook-recommendation online-resources asked Oct 17, 2009 at 18:03

mathoverflow.net

30 votes

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

domains cdn asked Jan 26, 2012 at 5:26

webmasters.stackexchange.com

25 votes

Is there a way to install and remove packages in a single yum command?

fedora rhel yum asked Jun 2, 2012 at 16:31

unix.stackexchange.com

24 votes

How does rooting work?

rooting asked May 10, 2012 at 1:13

android.stackexchange.com

21 votes

Is there a way to prune Travis's list of branches?

github travis-ci asked Nov 7, 2013 at 23:10

stackoverflow.com

19 votes

Is there a way to search the text of my browsing history in Firefox?

firefox search firefox-extensions browser-cache asked Jun 13, 2011 at 14:09

superuser.com

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How do you 'redo' changes after 'undo' with Emacs?

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Scalar vs. primitive data type - are they the same thing?

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Is List<Dog> a subclass of List<Animal>? Why are Java generics not implicitly polymorphic?

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What is the difference between an Abstract Syntax Tree and a Concrete Syntax Tree?

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What is the difference between Cassandra and CouchDB?

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User CPU time vs System CPU time?

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OCaml - How do I convert int to string?

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Why is const-correctness specific to C++?

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What are TeX and LaTeX?

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how to store printf into a variable?

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Is `hg pull --rebase` analogous to `svn update`?

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What is the use of finite automata?

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In Python with sqlite is it necessary to close a cursor?

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Is there a way to install and remove packages in a single yum command?

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Is citing only high-impact articles in my publication ethical?

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AVL tree vs. B-tree

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how to write a text editor in c++

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

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Getting "You have to run LaTeX again to get the references right " over and over again

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Which is better coding style?

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Why would a prospective advisor ask if I'm meeting other advisors?

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Can't the account information on my checks be easily used for fraud?

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Is HTML considered a programming language?

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Does declaring many identical anonymous classes waste memory in java?

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What is VBA good for?

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What is the OCaml idiom equivalent to Python's range function?

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Is there a point to setting assignment deadlines and late penalties besides practicality?

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running my own jabber/xmpp server

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FreeBSD is not Unix. But its Unix-Like Unix. Where is then the main Unix to read the source code?

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Riding a Mountain Bike in the city

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