My colleague Matt wrote about a recent Ruby Quiz which emphasised short, elegant solutions. He was particularly impressed with a solution which used a property of Ruby hashes to generate a wondrous number sequence for any given integer in a single line of code. That got me thinking about the solution in Scheme, a language …
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Felis Chrisus
In some aspects of my life I feel like the proverbial cat: when I am inside I want to be outside, and when I am out I want to be in. I know not from where this decisive indecision comes from. Often I find I can oscillate between my two states of indecision freely, some …
NCSS 2007
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the 2007 iteration of the National Computer Science School. The NCSS is a week long event held at the University of Sydney that sees a cohort of 70-odd senior high school students from around Australia (some from as far away as Broome) develop a search engine and web site from …
The monarchists have much to answer
The Barmy Army love giving it to us Aussies (let’s face it, their cricket team can’t). Just have a look at this excerpt from their chant “The Aussies Love the English” Long to reign over you God save your Queen The next time that we go to a referendum the pro-republic campaigners should rub our …