During what I would usually consider a very dry class the other day, I had a satisfying realization. A discussion was taking place about what motivations students had for completing a college degree, and one student piped up and said “If I could just get the piece of paper (degree) and make a lot of [...]
It is my humble opinion that the wisest words that anyone can utter, are “I don’t know”. This issue has always been there for me, but has reared its head with more frequency in the past week. For example, some friends and I wen’t to go see the movie Religulous in theaters last night, and [...]
So I was browsing around today for interesting problems to solve, in the style of programming competitions, and I came across the following problem:
What is the smallest integer that is evenly divisible by all the numbers from 1 to 20?
Here was my solution:
<?php
$max = 20*19*18*17*16*15*14*13*12*11;
for($i = 20; $i < $max; $i+=20)
{
$found = true;
for($j = 19; [...]
Taking the advice from a friend who recently graduated and moved to the west side, I decided to install some source version control software, as he stated its a valuable tool to learn before getting out in the ‘real’ job market. I went with SVN, because well, everyone does.
Setting it up was pretty simple. Just [...]
I’ve made a disturbing discovery, which I kind of suspected but never bothered to test. But it’s time I admitted it.
I have a problem. I can’t type properly!
Now that may come across as rather confusing, what with me being a computer science major and all, but let me clarify for a moment. The root of [...]
It’s been a little while since I last wrote a post of substance; that is to say one that was more than just brief tidbits or musings. I’ll bring all 2 of you that read this blog up to speed.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately, which has a lot to do with this [...]
Anon E Muss wrote a comment on slashdot that I found particularly useful when confronted with an interesting article bombarded in ads:
“Just click the “Print this story” button and you can read the whole thing on one page, without ads. This trick works on many sites.”