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Advent of Code 2018

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I have recently come across a website that proposes a series of programming challenges throughout December, until Christmas. It’s called Advent of Code and this is the fourth year it runs this competition. Every day, a new challenge is made available, and each challenge has two parts. You only get the second part after completing the first. It does not matter what programming language you use for solving the challenge, nor how the code looks or how fast it executes. The only thing that matters is the result.

Programmers with a good sense of humor

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Two funny things I have discovered today. First is an easter-egg in a trace route, from people at BeagleNetworks.net that have inserted the plot of Star Wars Episode IV in their internal routes. Just traceroot 216.81.59.173 to see what happens. Here is the listing: […]>tracert -h 60 216.81.59.173 Tracing route to read.more.at.beaglenetworks.net [216.81.59.173] over a … Read more

2012 in Review

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Here is an overview of the things that I’ve done in 2012. Codexpert Revamped The main site for the Romanian C++ community has a brand new, modern look (all built with HTML5), making things easier to find. We also now feature a blog in English, which is intended to replace the old article section. codexpert.ro … Read more

Great Artists Steal

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So Apple won an important battle with Samsung (in a US court where a juror said it was clear to the jury after the first day of the trial that Samsung stole ideas from Apple, which made the rest of the one year long trial moot). Apple accused Samsung of stealing. And it’s probably not … Read more

Remnants of the Golden Age of Communism

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The image of this former metallurgical plant of Călan (Hunedoara county) appeared through the surrounding hills as I was driving early in the morning to Hunedoara. It used to be a an important metallurgical center during the “Golden Age” of the communism era. Now it’s just a ruin like most of the industrial facilities in … Read more

The Great Global Warming Swindle

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Two months ago I was showing my friends a film called “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” As the title suggests, the topic of the movie is the global scale deceit about the man-made global warming. A number of important scientists argue that man has nothing to do with the rise of temperature and everything happens … Read more