As I was walking to get my turkey pot pie today that was cooking in the microwave in our break room, I looked at the parking lot below and realized that parking lots are approximately perfect hash functions.
Think about it: cars come in in some semi-random order; spaces are available in semi-random fashion; cars park; [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
a perfect hash function?
Thursday, October 25, 2007
lack of interest… or too much?
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I host the website for the Elon chapter of the ACM (elonacm.org).
This morning I was informed by one of my former group mates that our community-building project, The Colony, had been invaded by spammers. I couldn’t even login any more to the site because the admin email address doesn’t exist (oops).
So, my only possible course [...]
you’re wasting your time: let it languish
I read slashdot on a semi-frequent basis. I comment on articles on a notably less-frequent schedule.
However, it really bugs me when I (or anyone else) have comments whose base rating is 1 get marked redundant, overrated, or otherwise: there are hundreds-to-thousands of comments you could spend your moderation points on (up or down), and yet [...]