Another interesting problem that eventually got locked.

You are on a 2D graph starting at the origin (0,0). Given n vector movements (x,y), what is the max euclidean distance...

I originally came up with this idea over four years ago and after writing the shortest path algorithm, it fell off my radar, I got bored, so on and so forth. I got a wild hair this afternoon and I now present a tech demo of this concept. I have taken a modern map of Europe and overlaid the cities as found in the Ticket To Ride Europe...

Radix Trees

Continuing in the same solution space as the Trie, we now look at Radix Trees...

This one will be short and sweet. I use Google Voice to forward SMS (and at some point in the last three years they added MMS) to my gmail account. It used to be plaintext or the image(s) in the case of MMS. This past week, plaintext went away in favor of this monstrosity:



I cannot find a way to revert. I will...

I get hit up by recruiters or past coworkers to come work for their company. Companies seem to have this notion that if they have eccentric benefits, it will draw people to come work there. Perhaps there are some individuals who like to work for free or get "perks" that they could easily purchase themselves in exchange for tens of...