Mushroom Monster: 3-Line Solution in Julia
The first question in Round 1A of the 2015 Google Code Jam is a great example of a problem that can be solved very easily in just a few lines of Julia.The question goes like this:Kaylin loves...
View ArticleOperational Tranformation in Redis
Operational Transformation (OT) is the most widely used algorithm for merging changes to the same file from two simultaneous users. It is used as a base for Google Docs and countless other real-time...
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2015 Architecture of Octave Online
I maintain Octave Online, a web UI for the GNU Octave computational engine. The site is enjoyed by tens of thousands of users from all around the world, and well over a million commands have been...
View ArticleInstalling git-http-backend with CentOS, NGINX, and Custom Authentication
The docs for git-http-backend have instructions on how to set up the service in Apache, but they stop short of giving an example for Nginx setup. There are otherbloggers who have posted bits and pieces...
View ArticleConvert/Degarble Latin-1 to UTF-8
Sometimes on the internet you encounter garbled text: usually, bytes that were intended for UTF-8 but got rendered as Latin-1 by some outdated database system. I wrote a little online converter tool...
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