I’m solving a variation of the Knight’s Tour Problem [1] with a little home coding project. I know the best way to solve this problem is a recursive function call. I also know the problem I’m trying to solve has three times the number of possibles at each stop. It’s a damn hairy recursive function.…
I’ve read far too much Neal Stephenson [1][2]. I genuinely believe the direction of the evolution of our social organization is bee lining directly toward burbclaves. Nation states will disappear because they are unable to compete against large, multinational corporations or criminal enterprises. [Obligatory joke of that being a distinction without a difference here]. The…
I’ve been digging this guy’s design work lately: http://andrewbmyers.tumblr.com/
I think the next time I’m having a gloat party I’ll serve some schadenfreude pie. [1] I think this would taste how excessive gloating feels.
Joy! Mandatory online training courses! Of course I put it off until the last day. And now I suffer.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/02/19/the-devil-has-been-in-twice-as-many-movies-as-jesus-and-how-that-has-changed-our-theology/ An interesting discussion on the origins of our shared concept of the devil. And by interesting I mean how little of it is shaped by the historical tome as compared to popular culture.
I remember spending an afternoon studiously plonking out my GC [1]. I may have even included it in an email signature at the time. Man….blast from the past. Brought to you by a light discussion at work of creating a unique identifier for every developer based on their positions in the various geek religious wars…
Not sure how many times I’ve been through the steps in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhMQIpCP1A. Most irritating to me is the way in which the bug in GRUB that doesn’t kill a boot process but throws a bunch of misleading errors was skipped over. Went down a bit rabbit hole on that when it turns out…
My favoritest thing about Linq is that no one around here writes it natively. It always ends up in the code base via Resharper translating a block foreach and if/else statements. It looks awesome and is totally terse. Unfortunately, whenever you need to refactor that Linq statement the first thing you end up doing is…
One would think requirements like this: Would be in the documentation: