The following paper is a nice summary of opinions about this classical computer science problem: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf And as I was...
Omer Zak
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Do you mean how to verify a solution for TSP in polynomial time? If that's the case, you better look at the TSP as a decision problem: "A variant of the...
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... Yes. ... Is the procedure of reduction executable in polynomial time? ... Why? My question is simple. Given a purported solution to the Travelling Salesman...
Omer Zak
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Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club invites everyone to a talk by Yaron Meiry (Sawyer) about "Programming Red Flags" - on Sunday, 28-June-2009. (Notice the ...
Hi all! This is a last day reminder that we will have a meeting at Telux tomorrow (Sunday, 28-June-2009) at 18:30 about "Programming Red Flags". More ...
Hi all! The "Programming Red Flags" meeting had a high attendance, and was generally very successful. Thanks to all the people who came and special thanks to...
... I would be interested in a separate presentation about SCons. Don't know about the other club attendees, but if you have the will and the time, then I say ...
... Well, Offer was also referring to some threads on the KDE mailing lists (which I haven't read either). ... CMake supports all of those except perhaps...
Hi all! Today I wrote and published a feature in my homepage blog about the termination of my AdSense account, after my April's Fools Day feature got featured...
In accordance with its annual tradition, the Israeli Free and Open Source Software will hold the August Penguin conference ( http://august.penguin.org.il/ )...
I don't understand you Shlomi. By now you should know that any comparison between Perl and Python just leads to some Python fan pulling out the "Perl is not...
... Yes, I guess I know that. It still doesn't prevent the rest of the discussion from being high-quality and interesting. It's sad that many Pythoneers need...
... I am sure companies are worried about someone using their code without paying the license fee but I think they are a lot more worried about someone taking...
... Yes. ... I assume the licensing terms that the material was made available under did not allow commercial use. In that case, you have the right to press...
... I see. Well, you can tell what a reference is by how it is used. ->[], ->{}, - ... one can pass non-scalar variables (@array, %hash, etc.) to functions by ...
... If sigils just conveyed variable types, you could achieve the same effect with Hungarian notation: listS.add(scalarH) No, sigils have a deeper function -...
... I do want to address that meme productively. If you catch me degenerating to a troll, feel free to apply sunlight and I'll to freeze to stone ;-) First,...
Hi Beni, ... There is a difference when you say: "For me Python is more readable than Perl" "Python is more readable than Perl" "Perl is NOT readable" or "Perl...
... I guess you're right. I still find that using sigils help me understand what the code does. ... Well, I haven't found deep comparison very useful so far,...
... If you are satisfied with this outcome, more power to you ;-) If want ammunition in favor of Perl: 1. Python bytecode is really easy to decompile, waaay...
Hi all! This is a reminder that in accordance with its annual tradition, the Israeli Free and Open Source Software community will hold the August Penguin ...
Hi all! I have published a new essay about free software licences: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wars/ Any comments...
... Hi Dotan! Thanks for submitting this story to Slashdot, (which got it accepted eventually). I submitted it too, but I didn't see it published. I'm not sure...
... I meant that licensing issues would be the main challenge in writing and distributing the software, as opposed to a programming challenge. ... Don't browse...
Hi Mikhael! Thanks for your comments and sorry for the late response. I'm also De-CCing Perl-IL . See below for my comments. ... I didn't say that the licence...