About four weeks ago, the project that I was working on was abruptly canceled. It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the way the project was going -- there were lots of things wrong with the way the project was going, but the cancellation was due to a change in …
Posted Mon 03 December 2007 by mcherm in Programming
Suppose that you have a collection of numbers or perhaps of WidgetManagerHandles -- could be most anything that can be sorted. We'll suppose that these are stored in an array and that you can take as much time as you need beforehand to organize the array, after which we will try …
Posted Thu 22 November 2007 by mcherm in Programming
I was in middle school taking Algebra I when someone, probably another student, said I should open the textbook to a page about 3/4 of the way into the book. They pointed to a terribly complicated equation and said "you'll have to learn THAT". Here is the equation:
I …
If I can't use my own blog to post nicely worked out math problems, then what good is it?
So the other day, I had a problem to solve. I had two circles (the initial problem was in 2D, but the solution works for spheres in any number of dimensions …
A few days ago, version 1.0 of "Miro", an open-source application, was released. It is a video player with a nearly-perfect design combining the powerful VLC video player, an intuitive UI design, BitTorrent distribution, and a thoughtful approach to copyright law. And it will change Television forever.
Posted Thu 15 November 2007 by mcherm in IP-Law, Uncategorized