Author: oysta
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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…
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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…