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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Yet another PP challenge piqued my interest. Here's the problem statement:
Today’s problem appears with some regularity at places like Proggit and Stack Overflow and in lists of programming interview questions:
Given a binary tree t and two elements of the tree, m and n, with m<n, find the lowest element ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Programming Praxis (PP) recently published a puzzle that piqued my interest. Basically, the challenge is to code a solver for Word Cubes. Since I've always been a Word Cube aficionado, I decided to take a crack at the problem and see if I can come up with a decent solution.
Before ...
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
An additional pet peeve of mine resulted in yet another simple hack. I've found myself using my mouse too much while reading lengthy articles online. This fact became acutely evident when I was going through Google's Javascript Pacman implementation. Pressing the space bar in Firefox scrolls down, so that's great ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
This may be a huge pet peeve of mine, but I couldn't possibly be alone. Don't you hate when you land on a web page that asks for your username and password (or any other required information) and you realize you have to click on the first text box in ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
The question "What is it that you do again?" is something I've heard repeatedly ever since I started doing what I do for a living almost 7 years ago. People's face expressions usually range from the comic to the downright scary when I explain, as clearly as I possibly can, ...
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