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Hello HN, due to some unforeseen trouble in both my private and professional lives I had a lot of free & alone time over the winterbreak and I decided to tackle a worthwile project…

Cool! A very nice read.. thanks for sharing. I actually looked at that puzzle but decided strawberry fields was more interesting. My solution comes up with reasonably efficient ans…

Came here to make a remark about Knuth. Indeed, in TACP vol 1, fascicle 1 (the new MMIX design) he talks about being able to address memory in chunks larger than 8 bits and specifi…

Agreed, there is a pretty good discussion over on the portland pattern repository that echoes your take: "Elegance" really just means "has a lot of nice properties". So, when someo…

For a constant growth rate of r%, the formula for the doubling time Td is given by log(2)/log(1 + r/100) which can be simplified to approximatly 70/r. * See http://en.wikipedia.org…