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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:13 -0500

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Radix Sort on Floating Point Numbers

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:13:26 -0500

Phimuemue, in a recent post (at the time of writing, anyway) present his variation on sorting floating point values using radix sort. His implementation wasn’t dealing with the pesky sign…

Lost+Found: 7-11

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:44:29 -0500

Lost+Found: 7-11:

On Eskimo Disco’s MySpace Video Page.

Filed under: Lost+Found, wtf Tagged: catchy, music, Pingu, stop motion

The CES production function

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:54:27 -0500

The CES production function:

In many fields of economics, a particular class of functions called Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) functions are privileged because of their invariant characteristic, namely that the…

Adding Keywords in Emacs

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:36:28 -0500

Adding Keywords in Emacs:

As you already know—if you read my blog before—I use Emacs as my primary editor, for C, C++, Python, LaTeX, etc., and I’ve grown fond of the clunky ol’ piece of software. Still, once in a…

Computing the Neutral Zone

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:10:53 -0500

Computing the Neutral Zone:

Have you ever add to decide, you and your colleagues, where to go for lunch? Each time, it ends up being a committee, of course. It gets even worse when not only you have many colleagues, but also…

Bad Laptop Colors: Why?

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:50:53 -0500

Bad Laptop Colors: Why?:

In Calibrating your LCD for Better Results I presented a few techniques to adjust your LCD so that you get better colors, even though it’s not a perfect calibration.

I have a couple…

Ubuntu bugs. Is that kind of handling usual?

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:25:06 -0500

Ubuntu bugs. Is that kind of handling usual?:

I am the author of bug #501192 in Ubuntu. The bug is about the fact that glib, in Ubuntu, doesn’t use the distribution specific way of getting the default terminal emulator: the…

RAII COM wrapper

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:46:17 -0500

RAII COM wrapper:

COM stands for Component Object Model. This is the technology behind most of non-trivial things in Windows, the why of the obscure HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry subtree and the core of the infamous…

Natural ID vs Generated ID

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:05:17 -0500

Natural ID vs Generated ID

Sohcahtoa!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:48:32 -0500

Sohcahtoa!:

Mathematics can ask you to remember things that have no obvious connection to common sense. Either because it’s arbitrary (the name of a function in respect to what it computes) or because you…

Features I’d like to see in my Editor.

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:13:45 -0500

Features I’d like to see in my Editor.:

Do you ever have pipe-dreams about what you should be able to do with your computer? Like those crazy virtual interfaces like they had in the movie Minority Report or like every CSI lab seems to…

L’importance des clés primaires avec mk-table-sync

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:53:16 -0500

L’importance des clés primaires avec mk-table-sync

Those Pesky Applications!

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:33:27 -0500

Those Pesky Applications!:

Regardless of which operating you’re using, you’re bound to encounter applications that cause you problems. Some applications cause you problems so often that you eventually place a custom…

Compressing a year of timekeeping in 2 hours

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:59:12 -0500

Compressing a year of timekeeping in 2 hours:

I’m very bad at keeping track of the time I spend working. This tends to require manual input, and something to remind me of doing the input. The later part is where I usually fail and lose…

Please link to codeninja.ca

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:53:28 -0500

Just a friendly poke to people aggregated on this blog: please link back to http://codeninja.ca in your blogroll or elsewhere. We need more inbound links and cross-promotion to this site so that everybody contributing share a bit of traffic with others.

Bundling Memory Accesses (Part I)

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:26:09 -0500

Bundling Memory Accesses (Part I):

There’s always a question whether having “more bits” in a CPU will help. Is 64 bits better than 16? If so, how? Is it only that you have bigger integers to count further? Or maybe more accessible…

Interfacing with Microsoft products

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:31:08 -0500

Interfacing with Microsoft products:

I work for Kryptiva, which is a small company creating security and collaboration tools. Our server products are deployed on Ubuntu and Debian Linux, but our client-side are naturally available on…

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Radix Sort on Floating Point Numbers

Suggested Reading: Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies

Suggested Reading: Advanced Data Structures

Lost+Found: 7-11

The CES production function

Adding Keywords in Emacs

Computing the Neutral Zone

Bad Laptop Colors: Why?

Ubuntu bugs. Is that kind of handling usual?

RAII COM wrapper

Natural ID vs Generated ID

Sohcahtoa!

Features I’d like to see in my Editor.

L’importance des clés primaires avec mk-table-sync

Those Pesky Applications!

Compressing a year of timekeeping in 2 hours

Please link to codeninja.ca

Bundling Memory Accesses (Part I)

Interfacing with Microsoft products