Making it happen
Archive for December, 2007
Romanian Erotic Stories
Dec 21st
Really nice book, it’s an event in Romanian literature – there are the first short stories of Florin Iaru and Marius Chivu if I’m not mistaking,
Blogging Persai
Dec 19th
Persai is an somewhat interesting news aggregator, started by the people at uncov, however I like best their programming blog it’s really geeky especially if you are in the NLP area.
Facebook hiring puzzles
Dec 19th
Facebook has some programming puzzles on their jobs page, if they are interesting I’ll solve them later on. Once you solved them, send the solution to:
{ (0xFACEB00C >> 2) in decimal format } @ facebook.com
Google Codejam 2007
Dec 18th
Has anyone else noticed the Google supported Codejam contest did not happen in 2007 ? Any info why ?
Wurbe 4 geek meeting
Dec 11th
- only programmers except Pisi and wurbe-loving Nihasa
- while geekmeet in Cluj had 7 girls attending we only had Irina that together with Chelu kicked everyone hard at fussball
- the same Irina gave us the following problem (I’ve solved it at last!):
You have two glass balls and a building with 100 floors, you can also drop the balls from any floor k and they will eventually break, find with the minimum number of drops the highest floor where balls do not break.
- most of the people were hardcore ruby on rails fans (or ninjas?) – I was the only passionate of Microsoft platforms 
- of course there is no geek-meet without a little bit of iphone, google, facebook and nerdy jokes
String compare in C#
Dec 10th
Adrian (again!) points to me that you can’t simply compare strings lexicographically using < and >, you’d get the following:
Wurbe 4th edition
Dec 10th
I’m off tonight to the 4th programmer meeting under the name of Wurbe – details here in RO.
WPF-based yahoo messenger
Dec 6th
A preview version is here – performance is terrible though, I’ve uninstalled it after exactly one minute.
Politically correct language choice
Dec 3rd
Guess what, these days you can no longer use flags (as a visual symbol) along with text to indicate languages when choosing one from a list because it’s offensive to the other countries sharing the same language – more here.
