While discussing yet another Google interview blog post with a friend, I formalized a suspicion I've had about Google's interview process. You see, it's puzzled me a bit that Google insists on a fairly reasonable knowledge of algorithms, because, in my own experience, that is a fairly small part of …
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I spent part of the last few days figuring out how to get my cross-platform GUI, FamilyRelations II (a.k.a. FRII), to build on Windows. It used to compile on my old desktop machine, which we then converted over to MythTV with a Windows partition for compilation, but that …
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Over the last few days, I put a bunch of time into my ongoing refit of Cartwheel.
Cartwheel is a sizeable toolkit for doing bioinformatic sequence analysis; it's got a Web interface, a batching and queuing system built on PostgreSQL, and a client library for manipulating things over XML-RPC. So …
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I just wrote a small GalCon strategy guide, available here. Comments welcome.
--titus
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Posted by Brian Dorsey on 2007-01-05 at 13:24.
I think we should play some GalCon at PyCon this year! (Your earlier post about GalCon got me completely addicted.) Take care, -Brian
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Done. DONE. done. Done done done done done.
I defended Sep 5th. That went well.
Unfortunately I had lots of revisions to do.
That is finally finished: everyone signed off on the revisions.
If I don't officially have my nigh-irrevocable PhD by the new year, it will be because of …
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Over the last week, I've spent far too much time playing Galcon, an addictive game developed by Phil Hassey using Pygame and other tools.
In Galcon, you are a general out for conquest. You start with one or a few planets that produce fighters, and you're pitted against "independent" planets …
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Grig and I will be reprising our Testing Tutorial at PyCon '07! This year I think we have a better idea of what people found useful, and in consequence we should be a bit better organized, too.
Our outline is here: http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Tutorials
More anon.
--titus …
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