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Pragmatic Rubber Ducks
In the early 2000’s, back when I still considered myself a young programmer, IBM laid off a large number of engineers in my town and my company scooped up a bunch of those guys. They needed jobs and we needed programmers. A few ex-IBMers ended up in the area where...
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The Illusion of Freedom, or why you should wear your mask
I’ve had the opportunity to engage with people who don’t wear masks to find out why the choose to not do something that seems so simple that, to me, it seems silly to not just do it. I’ve heard about psychological issues, as well as discomfort due to physical issues...
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I haven’t looked at my code or the CodinGame site since the last time I posted, RL work has been busy and I just have felt like more coding when I get done. I just looked and somehow I was promoted to the Silver league! That’s good for the motivation....
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CodinGame Spring Challenge 2020 - Day 5
Today is day 5 of the CodinGame Spring Challenge 2020 and today I need to defeat the Bronze boss. Yesterday was Mother’s Day and I didn’t get much done and right now I am 1362/2515 in the league, or in other words my bot is a steaming pile at the...
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CodinGame Spring Challenge 2020 - Day 3
Today is day 3 of the CodinGame Spring Challenge 2020 and today I am going to set about defeating the Bronze boss. Defeating the Wood League bosses yesterday was a good start but in reality I didn’t even scratch the surface of of the problem space. For instance, there is...