Month: March 2013
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Gotchas all around! 😀 In fact, this time I’ve struggled with the algorithm to solve the problem. My first attempt did work, but could only solve correctly the small input of the problem, entitled Ocean View. It’s not complicated as a problem, but this time you need to think a bit more to get there:…
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This was supposed to be posted last night, but I was trying to make it work properly. This problem reproduces a few Python division problems and took me some time to figure it out. Actually I only knew about this when I checked the winner’s solution (also written in Python). Without the “gotcha”, the problem is…
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Howdy! Some hours until codejam starts again and I’ve decided to take some rust off. 🙂 This problem is called Hedgemony, quite simple: Lord Cohen is a baron with the best-looking hedge in the country. His award-winning hedge consists of N bushes planted side by side in a straight line. The bushes are numbered left to right…
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Since Ubuntu changed to Unity and Gnome 3 took over everything, I found myself without a nice DE to use. Gnome 2 was perfect for me, I could customize it the way I wanted it to feel (I still use it at work, but there we’re forced to use some “ancient” 10.04 LTS Ubuntu), so…
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http://code.google.com/codejam I’ll never be ready enough for this, I guess, but once again I’ll try to quickly code solutions to CodeJam challenges. It’s exciting to do it again. Couldn’t finish my “all problems solved” section of the blog, but I’ve practiced some more, and am more experienced after all. Let’s see how it goes. I…
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https://github.com/diogobohm/JenPop Nothing new so far, but enjoy and test it! 😀
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Howdy 🙂 it’s 10PM once again, and I’ve decided to restart posting. Really it’s been really hard to focus energy into posting content. Let’s see how it goes. I was planning a deep analysis into many different services and their offerings, guided by this wikipedia entry, but, as a colleague once said: “who DOESN’T use…