I somehow missed out on this for a couple weeks - unsanity updated shapeshifter to work with safari 3 beta. No longer do I have a menu bar that's half decently themes and half aqua, and no longer am I stuck with a safari window that's in brushed metal. Woot.

This one was really easy, and it got accepted on my first try. Actually, it compiled on my first try too (not even a silly typing mistake), but didn't work the first time I ran it locally (stupid mistake, I did cin >> count instead of cin >> n ;)). But I think this is my first submission where I got 'Accepted' on the first submit. woo!
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The basic premise is you're given a chessboard, and you need to see if either of the kings are in check. My first submission, I had a bunch of debug code. My next few submissions I played with line endings since that's bitten me in the past. I then complained and Aaron gave me his exhaustive list of testcases, to which 1 out of the 97 there ( Read more... )

So my friend/coworker/boss/whatever started doing some programming challenges from this book, and blogging about it. Not being the kind of person who doesn't do exactly what everyone else does, I started doing the ones he does. I'm not proud of any of these solutions, but they were quick, dirty, and fun (much like your mom), so I don't have too ( Read more... )

So, I was browsing around earlier on digg, when one of the sites attempted to print something. Yup, that's right, I go to a website in a background tab and a print dialog pops up telling me that it can't print because I don't have a printer connected. What the hell ( Read more... )

I used to feel bad for the people who were sending their resumes/CVs through timesjobs, to tl.spectral@gmail.com, only to have them actually sent to me. That's stopped, and now it's just the people who are too fucking stupid to read AND who think that they're going to do better by sending their CV through email to the company direcly, instead of ( Read more... )

Apparently "Spectral Consulting" is either full of fucking idiots, or attracting them. They have email addresses like tl.spectral@gmail.com (for their "team lead" position) and somehow all the emails get sent to spectral@gmail.com. I can probably hook you guys up if you want this job or this job, since I don't think any of the people applying are ( Read more... )

I was on the phone and he was sitting on the chair, and then right as I was hanging up I noticed he was struggling to get off the chair. He managed to, while sitting on the chair (and STILL sitting on the chair) get his claw stuck so bad that he couldn't figure out how to remove himself. Good thing he didn't do something stupid like try and jump ( Read more... )

I thought it was just frozen, but holding the lock button didn't turn it off like it does if it's working. To reboot the phone: hold down BOTH physical buttons (lock and the home button), and it reboots. So, it rebooted and was working fine, I bring it home, drop it on the dock and the sync program says "Your iPhone contains diagnostic ( Read more... )

So, I expected perfection, and I have to say it isn't there yet but it's still pretty sweet. Since you can go basically anywhere (I'm pretty sure homeless people in Japan would know this information) and find out what's awesome/what sucks about the iPhone, I won't list the obvious ones here. The ones that did annoy me that seemed like simple ( Read more... )