Tag Archives: Programming

Open Redirects

Posted on March 26, 2010 by lorg

In this post I’ll discuss an issue I tackled a short while ago – open redirects. But first, the story of how I got to it. Feel free to skip ahead to the technical discussion. Background Our analytics for plnnr.com … Continue reading →

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Ethics in Programming

Posted on March 8, 2010 by lorg

Some time ago I was bothered by the issue of ethics in programming. I heard the question best raised during a “game unconference” I attended. There was a panel about monetary systems for games, and people talked about the issues … Continue reading →

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Small Programming Challenge no. 5 – Generating a Permutation

Posted on November 11, 2009 by lorg

I thought of this one quite a long time ago, and I believe that the idea behind it is pretty nice mathematically. I got the idea for it from Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming”. The challenge is simple: write … Continue reading →

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10 Python Optimization Tips and Issues

Posted on September 21, 2009 by lorg

Following my previous post on Optimizing Javascript, I thought I’d write a similar post regarding Python optimization.

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Checking the ulam spiral

Posted on September 17, 2009 by lorg

In the following post, the Ulam spiral is described. It’s a very simple object – write down consecutive natural numbers starting from 41 in a square spiral. Curiously, the numbers on the diagonal are primes: Reading this post, I immediately … Continue reading →

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My solution to the counting sets challenge

Posted on September 7, 2009 by lorg

A few days ago, I wrote up a challenge – to count the number of sets a given set is contained in. In the comments, I touched briefly on the original problem from which the challenge was created, and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Small Python Challenge No. 4 – Counting Sets

Posted on August 28, 2009 by lorg

This is a problem that I encountered a short while ago. It seems like it could be easily solved very efficiently, but it’s not as easy as it looks. Let’s say that we are given N (finite) sets of integers … Continue reading →

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Debugging in IE.

Posted on April 12, 2009 by lorg

I did something I shouldn’t have done: from JavaScript, I appendChildNodes()-ed some text and an img to an existing img. I apologize. Firefox told me it was OK. To put it more accurately, Firefox didn’t tell me anything, and just … Continue reading →

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Computing Large Determinants in Python

Posted on March 25, 2009 by lorg

Story: For my seminar work, I had to calculate the determinant of a large integer matrix. In this case, large meant n>=500. You might say that this isn’t very large and I would agree. However, it is large enough to … Continue reading →

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Easy Harvesting

Posted on March 23, 2009 by lorg

Image by existentist. I’ve been doing a lot of harvesting (aka screen-scraping) lately. Fortunately, I don’t need forms automation, so I’m using urllib2 and not Mechanize like my friend Ron Reiter recommended. At first, when I wanted to get some … Continue reading →

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