random thoughts from class.

My Foundations of Software Design teacher doesn't like sci-fi.

This came out of a discussion about cryptography and NP-complete problems, which lead to somebody mentioning Neal Stephenson and Cryptonomonicon, which led to the teacher's confession that she didn't like sci-fi, even though people have tried to palm Snow Crash on her.

It's great.

That time of the year

This is for Christmas card addresses, though if you'd all at least participate in the country poll... :)

[Poll #80356]

reason number #586 why programming sucks.

I had to write a recursive program that would take a string and return it backwards. For example, if I put in java, it would need to return avaj.

I spent the last twenty minutes chasing the bug that made garage print as "egarag". Until it dawns on me that if you slice the e off garage, it's a palindrome, and that's not printing as last letter rest of word, it's printing the right answer. :P

Twenty minutes chasing a non-bug. I'm slipping.