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by ianbishop 15y ago
This is really cool. I went to add a concert with time/date but landed up getting lot of videos that didn't meet the criteria. The concert was part of Osheaga (a festival in Montreal) but the listing shows up as Parc Jean-Drapeau, where the
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by ianbishop 15y ago
I personally learned from Skienna's other book Programming Challenges first ( http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Challenges-Steven-S-Skiena... ). Then when my knowledge had matured a bit, I was able to digest The Algorithm Design Manual
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by ianbishop 15y ago
Agreed but you have to keep in mind what the algorithms are being used for. You're going to have better luck implementing Dijkstra's quickly in a competition than you are A-Star. Not to mention A-Star is based mostly on heuristics and if yo
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IBM to Buy Q1 Labs(online.wsj.com)
1 points by ianbishop 15y ago|0 comments
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by ianbishop 15y ago
Seriously, it'll be worth it not to learn about manual memory management. I believe he's making reference to the inclusion of automatic reference counting in iOS 5.
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by ianbishop 15y ago
I really wish that there was an auto-update. I've been using the beta for some time now, Jon's amazing constant updates actually becomes frustrating because you have download an installer every update. I would buy a license in an instant if
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Why I quit my job(kainagata.com)
117 points by ianbishop 15y ago|7 comments
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by ianbishop 15y ago
Highlights: * Focus on YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) * Improved character encoding support * Adding parameter distinguishers a la Objective-C/SmallTalk. e.g. def step(by: step, to: limit) vs def step(step, limit) * Adding scope encaps
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by ianbishop 15y ago
Couldn't disagree more in Canada. There are lots of young people sporting Blackberrys (lack of cash, praise of BBM).
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by ianbishop 15y ago
If you participated in Facebook's Hacker Cup, you should definitely give Code Jam a try. It's much more organized and the problems are always interesting :)
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by ianbishop 15y ago
"RIM has been making a number of acquisitions in the past few months, including HTML5 mobile developer TinyHippos, professional contact manager Gist, and UI development team The Astonishing Tribe." Add QNX to that list and it almost sounds
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by ianbishop 16y ago
As an ICPC competitor, I don't even find these tales all that cautionary. It's a well known fact that those who do best in standardized tests do not excel the most in the workforce. Programming contests are no different. And to be fair, I'm
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by ianbishop 16y ago
I find it entertaining that Java's apparent successor will be, in many ways, a copy-cat of modern C#. It wasn't long ago that C# was created in Java's image. If this language is not continually enhanced, then it will fall behind. Java has a
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by ianbishop 16y ago
I would make the argument (as a 20-something) that there are far more 20-somethings on Tumblr than there will ever be on Posterous. Posterous has always felt, in its design, to be minimal and content based. It is not about posting cool phot
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by ianbishop 16y ago
I never really understood why companies don't just take a non-trivial real problem that they have run into during development. Just ask the candidate to talk it out, see if they are able to at least get on their feet toward a solution or an
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by ianbishop 16y ago
Ha, I'm surprised how simple the algorithm to generate random noise is. This is really cool though its applications may not be too widespread. I find with solid colours elements that slight noise can give it more of a body.
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by ianbishop 16y ago
One thing I am surprised to not see in this list is that, as an individual, you are required to have your form faxed back after been signed by a notary. AFAIK, this is not practice of Google or Apple either.
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by ianbishop 16y ago
If you haven't read the first two parts of this series, you really should. I don't think I've ever read another series of articles about such a boring topic (5x5 pixel buttons, label strokes) that is so damn interesting. The difference betw
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by ianbishop 16y ago
Does anyone know why they chose to go with linear probing over double hashing? I could never really think of why one would be more advantageous than the other.
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UBB: A Clever Ruse?(ianbishop.tumblr.com)
1 points by ianbishop 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Summer of Code 2011 Announced(google-melange.com)
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by ianbishop 16y ago
You mean Facebook?
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by ianbishop 16y ago
I have duck duck go integrated into my Chrome. Being able to do things like type '? md5 blabla' and have it spit out a hash has been helpful. Other things like integrated SO and Wikipedia help a lot too.
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Dell To Launch Social Media Listening Command Center(mashable.com)
1 points by ianbishop 16y ago|0 comments
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by ianbishop 16y ago
I think COLOURlovers is the only YC company that I can say I had heard of / often visited before they were part of YC. Are there any other companies that were reasonably successful before starting in YC?
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by ianbishop 16y ago
I would just like to say thanks! Without the Algorithmist, I would have pulled my hair out more than once.
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by ianbishop 16y ago
North American competitions usually allow C/C++/Java and sometimes Pascal. Good books on these are: * Programming Challenges by Skiena and Revilla * Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena * Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen The biggest troubl
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by ianbishop 16y ago
Your text editor options are usually vim, emacs and pine (or nano) depending on where you are competing. No one uses IDEs, even if they are prohibited.
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by ianbishop 16y ago
"For kicks, he took the tryout test for Harvard’s team. He came in first place." I knew I recognized him from somewhere! ACM Regionals in New York took place a couple weeks ago. MIT managed to solve 7/8 problems, Harvard solved 3. No one on
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by ianbishop 16y ago
eh, I'll take the bait. Whether you're using 960gs or whatever it may be, you still need to be considerate of position and "write css for layout". If you find yourself always using grid layouts, not just as guides but as the way to lay out

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