When is a string not a string? As part of my “work” on the ECMA-334 TC49-TG2 technical group, standardizing C# 5 (which will probably be completed long after C# 6 is out… but it’s a start!) I’ve had the pleasure of being exposed to some of the interesting[...]

One of the perverse side effects of code that’s “the simplest thing that could possibly work” is that it can appear much easier to create than it actually was.  I refer to this as Athena Code because it can appear as if the code sprung full-grown and read[...]

This post has a few purposes – it’s partly a bit of advertising, but it’s also meant to serve as a quick way of replying to speaking requests for a while… if you’ve been directed here by an email from me, I hope you’ll excuse the “form letter” approach. ([...]

A few days pack I posted the prisoners puzzle and I think it’s time to give the solution. solution Obviously the prisioners can only use the both switches to communicate with one another after the planning phase so we have … Weiterlesen →

First of all the title, redux because I’m revising post I started on earlier in the year, compression because this has to do with compression, and Flux, which is also part of the redux, one of the first things I remember writing on the net was an art[...]

Wow its been a long time since I wrote anything! For those of you visiting here may be pleased to know that I’m finally getting round to writing again, but before a post with any real content I just wanted to mention a few things.

Today I stumpled upon a very nice and concise (but quite hard to understand) point-free implementation of Pascals-Triangle in Haskell: let’s first confirm that this really works (…magic): Seems to work. But how … Of course I know how to … Weiterlesen →

Toda I saw this puzzle I’ve not seen for a long time: A warden meets with 23 newly arrived prisoners. He tells them, “You may meet today and plan a strategy. But after today, you will be in isolated cells … Weiterlesen →