OddThinking

This is the 500th post of OddThinking.

Sometimes big numbers like these are difficult to grasp, so I like to put them into perspective.

When I say I am against the Australian Government extending the Marriage Act to allow for marriage between same-sex couples, it isn’t for the reasons given by the religious, trying to protect society from what they see as an abomination.

It is because I want the Government to repeal the entire Marriage Act, and get their nose out of things that are none of their affair!

In which Julian offers a solution to the problem of sales-people, and a profit,

In which Julian tries to choose a data-structure with a low constant time, in a low constant time.

The first obligation when faced with coding standards and style guidelines is to argue about, moan about and mock the appalling choices made by the so-called developers who came up with a style that is guaranteed to turn your code into an unreadable, unmaintainable mush.

I propose draft rules for Live Action Tetris, for your joy, refinement and refined enjoyment.

For the modern Windows Python programmer, stuck with old libraries:

PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.6, Windows Installer (1,006 KB)

I have often considered writing a Battleship-playing AI, but I never have.

Now, I discover, there is a Battleship-playing AI competition, which I don’t have the time (or .NET experience) to enter.

Laserbox, from Dust United, is another casual logic game that I have been playing.

In which Julian uses a modern computer (capable of billions of multiplications a second) as a notebook to record how to make a slide-rule (capable of performing a few per minute).