Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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TPO Practice Question 1-1
Talk about a book you have read that was important to you for some reason. Explain why the book was important to you. Give specific details and examples to explain your answer. Of course my first effort wasn’t the best. It went way over the 45 second mark, so it had to be trimmed down.…
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What’s the difference between an inner and outer join?
This article was taken from programmerinterview.com, and can be found in it’s entirity at http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/database-sql/inner-vs-outer-joins/. I am reprinting it here for my own notes on SQL for future reference. Many thanks to the author(s) of this article. Joins are used to combine the data from two tables, with the result being a new, temporary table. The temporary…
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What I Like And Dislike About PHP
Likes I started using PHP after I did about 200,000 lines of Perl code during an upgrade of a system that I supported at a large company. We translated the C++ services over in about 9 months. It was the easiest and most stable conversion I’d ever made. So when I started using PHP, it was…
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To be or… Well you know the rest
I have been helping my Chinese partner rewrite some of her students essays. When I first started, I felt like I was throwing my ethics out the window. I was helping students get a better grade in exchange for money. Well, not a lot of money any way. Maybe that is why I felt so…
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Fibonacci Modified
I’ve been having a little fun while I’ve been keeping my programming and C# skills sharp. Here is one of the problems I solved a little while ago. The biggest stinker about this problem was that the numbers could get very large. Larger than the Int64 would handle, so I had to install the BigInteger…
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What’s Your Name?
Over the past 30 years, I’ve noticed that people from Asian countries like to adopt Western names so they can fit in with the West. Some say that it’s easier for Westerners to remember or pronounce. I’ve even heard that they are trying to avoid the stigma of being oriental in a Western business. Whatever…
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Beekeeping
Many of you would say that it is an odd career path that a person should take after working for so many years as a software developer. I would emphatically agree, if it weren’t for what really happens in a beehive. Many years ago, when I was a boy, I was introduced to beekeeping. My…
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Making a Trie in C#
When I was first learning how to program, I had a class that wanted a fast way of checking the spelling of the words in a file. The language we were using was called APL (Another Programming Language), which was based on atomic structures that were very dynamic and powerful. Unfortunately it was a language…
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