This past week, I finished an interview with a company. I fumbled in many ways, including showing up terribly late. I’ll focus this blog post just on my technical shortcomings, or as I perceived them. Learn from your mistakes, right?
Object Oriented...
In the Hacker School Manual, reflection is listed as a trait of an awesome hacker. I seem to recall another blog post of theirs mentioning that it’s part of their daily recommended structure. I can’t find that post right now, so I’ll save that for...
I’ve seen a class definition pattern in Ruby (generally not Rails) and finally found a use for it while working on project Euler problems. It looks like this:
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class MatrixPosition < Struct.new(:row, :column)
end
This gives me a 2-line class definition...
If you’ve used bash before, then the tilde (~) is probably familiar to you.
It’s a shortcut for your home folder in the terminal. Thus, cd ~ on my
system works as follows:
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$ cd /
$ pwd
/
$ cd ~
$ pwd
/Users/erichu
This is great, but I...
This is just a quick note for the day, but I learned something new today because of a comment on an answer I posted on Stackoverflow yesterday.
A Schwartzian Transform is a technique used for sorting objects that’s useful when the sort key on objects...
With a technical blog already set up on blogger, I have to ask myself why I want to set this one up. The answer is that blogger isn’t customizable enough. I’d like this blog to also be a playground of ideas.
If there’s some library I want to try...
By Eric
I finally got the basics of this blog set up. It was fairly simple, involving 3 main steps.