Updated: January 18th, 2010
Introduction
StackOverflow is an amazing site for coding questions. It was created by Joel Spolsky of joelonsoftware.com, Jeff Atwood of codinghorror.com, and some other incredibly smart guys who truly care about user experience. I have been a total fan of SO since it went mainstream and it's now a borderline addiction (you can…
Updated: June 9th, 2009
Today I had to swap 2 columns in one of my MySQL tables. The task, which seems easily accomplishable by a temp variable, proved to be a bit harder to complete. But only just a bit.
Here are my findings:
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The
UPDATE swap_test SET x=y, y=x;
approach doesn't work, as it'll just set both values to y.
PostgreSQL seems to handle this query differently, as it apparently
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The Ultimate Programming Language – LOLCODE
If you are a programmer, you, by definition, belong to the elite [awesome] human breed called geeks. If you know how to code in Python or Ruby, you might even think you’re pretty hot shit. But none of that compares in hotshitness to what you are about to learn.
Allow me to introduce LOLCODE – perhaps the most serious and, for some, cryptic, programming language….
Basement hackers compete to best Netflix recommendations $1M
This is a great read by NY Times. An article on 6 pages rarely gets my full attention but this is one of them (though I detest the usage of "basement hacker").
Basement hackers and amateur mathematicians are competing to improve the program that Netflix uses to recommend DVDs — and to win $1 million in the process.
"THE “NAPOLEON DYNAMITE” problem is driving Len Bertoni crazy. Bertoni is
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