I was recently looking at some of the top selected answers for this problem on code wars and noticed a lot of string concatenation happening. While this may be pragmatically ok for small toy examples, if you are going to use string concatenation in a for loop iterating over anything but a small set, you’re probably going to have a bad time. To highlight this problem, imagine this contrived program that:...
After seeing several posts on the /r/golang subreddit, e.g. this one, sing this book’s praises, I decided I better give it read. It also has pretty solid reviews on good reads. There are so many ways to do things in programming, that I admit I found the catchy title engaging - I definitely want to know what I should not be doing! It turns out, there was a lot of things I’ve done in the past that have not been ideal....
Hashes have always been a fascinating class of algorithms to me due to their following characteristics: Fixed output size - the ability to give a function some input, whether the single character “A” or the entire works of Shakespeare, and get a fixed length output is just plain neat Deterministic - you get the same result given the same input One-way functions - it is difficult, and in the case of cryptographic hash functions, computationally infeasible to reverse the hash to get the original input These characteristics unlock all kinds of useful problem-solving mechanisms....
Several years ago I decided to run an experiment. I had a few humble goals: Experiment with Gopherjs - a transpiler that converts Go code to JavaScript Create a few simple exercises to improve my German Leverage Cloudflare for free TLS to give me the s in https, and so I don’t have to muck with certificates Use a bootstrap to make the site look not completely terrible Host an interactive web page on AWS with ec2 and Route 53 with a Go backend to serve the pages and provide server-side validation for the exercises on the site Thus, the https://theawfulgermanlanguage....
After a more than a decade in software development, I finally got the opportunity to mob program. I was skeptical at first. I had seen contractors pair programming and many people made jokes and cast doubts on how that could be viable - surely it must just be a clever way for them to bill more hours? And if pair programming was dubious, surely mob programming was even more so....
Introduction My name is Sean. In an increasingly digital world, it can be harder to get to know someone. This site seeks to remedy that. This site is also an experiment with the hugo static site generator. Thanks and enjoy!