My brother got me a pretty cool puzzle for Christmas which claims to have "Over 300,000 wrong ways to assemble the pieces, but only One right way!". The only hint/instructions are that the final solution will be a 3x3 square with six points and six holes on ...
There are times when you need to middle truncate a string. In many cases it's for UX/human purposes, though in some situations it's the best way to generate unique string for a length-limited field. This is the case I ran in to recently in trying to automate ...
(more)Which of the following lists is sorted in the most "natural" fashion?
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Elementary Season 1 Episode 1
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Elementary Season ...The secret to building high performance sites which depend on external web services is asynchronous HTTP. The trick to asynchronous HTTP (or anything with the exception of UI) is to avoid callback hell. Enter futures/promise objects. When used correctly they make doing substantial asynchronous IO, relatively straightforward.
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In the past couple days there's been several articles about how Google's interview process has failed. The headlines are overblown, inaccurate really, but to be expected giving the goal of getting clicks. In reality Peter Norvig was talking about counterintuitive findings. They were surprised to find that some ...
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