Why have I not heard of Mark Cerny, and how do I get his job?
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Categories: Games / Programmer
Category: Programmer
HackerPraxis
I’m starting a new project: HackerPraxis, a place for daily code practice in bite-sized chunks. Check it out.
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Reflection: Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
I just finished reading Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About by Don Knuth. For those of you not in the know, Donald Knuth is a legend among computer scientists and professors of such. His magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming, is incomplete, but it’s already revolutionized the industry and the first three volumes…
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Categories: Books / Programmer
Varchar(MAX) – More like Varchar(AUTO)
Recently I was working with a database where certain tables were reporting page overflow errors. I subsequently learned a bit about how Microsoft SQL Server works, and this is my attempt to write it down. SQL Server has a page size of 8KB. In simple terms, that’s about eight thousand characters of text. For a…
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Guncho
I recently heard about Gunchocomp through a blog post by Emily Short. Guncho is an extension of the Inform 7 interactive fiction platform that allows the user to create multiplayer/MUD experiences. Not much has been done with multi-user interactive fiction yet, so this competition sounds like a great opportunity to try something new. I’ve never…
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Categories: Games / Programmer