A Short History of Algorithms
This “Short History of Algorithms” poem was written in 2019 as a study aid for Big Tech-style coding interviews. It didn’t make me better, but here it is for anyone else who might enjoy...
Category: Programming
Background Check Your Doctor: Try This Health Care Provider Review Aggregator
I wrote a suite of scripts to help you background check your doctor. The Primary Care Provider Investigator imports a list of health care providers and then scrapes multiple review sites (e.g. Yelp, UCompareHealthCare)...
Telnetlib not reading all output? Try asynchat
Telnetlib not reading all output? Not receiving all the output from your telnetlib session? read_until() not an option because you don’t know what output to look for? telnetlib not queueing your writes? Think you...
JDI on How to Ask a Good Programming Question
The coworker featured in this comic has written a post about the problem with short questions posted to StackOverflow. It is haughty and good. For those that are immediately inclined to provide the complete...
AndEngine Installation: Lessons from Last Night’s Tweets
Y’all may have noticed from my Twittersplosion that I had a frustrating time trying to install and run the AndEngine examples. This involved 7 hours, 3 different tutorials (including 2 ones on video!) and...
Your Cocoa Build of Qt and You
Interestingly, I had to start building my apps on OSX because the apps I built on my Snow Leopard machine stopped working (loader error and other good times). After much suffering my boss set...
PIL on Snow Leopard: _jpeg_resync_to_restart error
Oh man I just got this working so I’m gonna write it all down in case I have to do this again later. CONTEXT: Using: – jpeg-7 – PyQt 4.6 – PIL (aka Imaging)...
Make “make” faster
I dread installing Qt because it’s an all-day project. With this pro-tip it’s a matter of minutes — and it applies to any make you make. From teammate Justin: I was complaining about building...
