kogorman

Here's a link to something that looks like it might have been the original. [url]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2006-July/006810.html[/url] This page contains a link to a math paper (PDF) where the idea was developed.

I don't remember. It was a long time ago. When I first started with computers, we didn't have passwords since we trusted each other and there was no internet and no access by outsiders. In an early project, there was a back-door magic word "yoicks" that would let you make …

Project length does not even annoy me. I've done solo projects that took years. A long time ago, I once had a single repeatable bug that took two weeks to identify and about two minutes to fix. I think annoyance and anger arise to alert us to a situation, but …

I was recently toying with an idea from my education in computer science, namely that any deterministic algorithm can be expressed with just two control structures: a loop containing a switch. I never doubted it. From a certain point of view, that's what programs look like to the silicon of …

In my current Unix/C++ application, I need to pipe a file through the sort(1) program before reading it. The input is large to huge, so in-memory sorting won't work. I'm used to using fork(2), pipe(2) and exec(3) in my C programs. I know I can do the same in C++, …