Author: oysta
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Stupid joy
Some things bring me the stupidest joy. Tonight: an owl hooting in a tree near my place, the first time I have heard one nearby. From the nature of the call and the geographic location it was very likely a male Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua). Yes I guess this makes me an uber-nerdy bird watcher;…
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Old people these days!
I was waiting at a bus stop recently when I reached for my wallet to pull out some money. I have a fairly extensive track record of dropping loads of coins everywhere when I do this and this event continued this great tradition resulting in the spilling of a one dollar coin and a fifty…
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Wondrous Functional Languages
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…