GvR's Blog

It's not a terribly hard exercise, I'd expect that almost any programmer could do the math and figure out that a solution requires files. After that I'd expect a candidate to at least sketch out a logical solution.

It's cool that it's Guido, though. And that it's a complete solution.

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Post by newt0311 » Thu, Oct 23, 2008, 3:22 AM UTC

Rss at http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/rss.xml

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Post by westside1506 » Thu, Oct 23, 2008, 3:38 AM UTC

I wrote this algorithm to solve a problem for myself one night about 10 years ago (agree - not a very tough problem, but very useful if you don't have enough memory). I told a client about it and he tried to patent it! I never checked to see if it went through...

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Post by newaccountname » Thu, Oct 23, 2008, 3:55 AM UTC

westside1506 wrote: post #8

I wrote this algorithm to solve a problem for myself one night about 10 years ago (agree - not a very tough problem, but very useful if you don't have enough memory). I told a client about it and he tried to patent it! I never checked to see if it went through...

You didn't need to; unix sort has been able to do this for way more than 10 years =).

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Post by Dobbs » Thu, Oct 23, 2008, 4:08 AM UTC

Prrometheus wrote: post #4

So, what did ya'll think of Anathem?

I felt like it was three related but different stories put together. Each 3rd of the book, seemed to have a very unique feel from the others.