April 2010
9 posts
“Pushing is just pulling in reverse!”
– James Kruth (while attempting to explain Git to a friend.)
How to Keep Crappy Programmers →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Sufjan Stevens (19)
The Prodigy (6)
Leftfield (6)
Orbital (4)
Underworld (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– H. P. Lovecraft (from The Call of Cthulhu)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Bruce Springsteen (29)
Elliott Smith (12)
Blonde Redhead (11)
The Postal Service (2)
Alexi Murdoch (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Binary Search
After reading Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?, I decided to find out if I was. Here’s my submission (written in about 30 minutes in python):
# the list to be searched
data = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
# what we're searching for
search = 7
# we could do this recursively, but without tail
# call optimization we'd just reach a stack...
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it...”
– John Carmack (via reddit)
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't,... →
Thank goodness for Cory Doctorow and his frank discussion of our increasingly restricted technology platforms. I am almost finished reading Makers and I too am frustrated with a world with more iPads and less Apple IIs.