krishna2

"spent much of his life in the Cook Islands and 16 years in three sessions living alone on the island of Anchorage in the Suwarrow atoll, which was the basis of his popular autobiography."

Very long but totally worth it to read the whole thing: http://www.janesoceania.com/suvarov_tom_neale/

Makes me want to go to Cook Islands at the least.

This is everything that is wrong with program trading in a nutshell and I am telling you that this was a multi-billion dollar crime. Someone "fat-fingered" Billions of shares instead of millions and that’s all it takes to send the markets down 10% in one day and the only reason trading didn’t shut down was because Mr. Fat Finger just so happened to make his mistake minutes after the usual trading brakes come off at 2:30. What a friggin coincidence, right? Well, bad luck to all who got wiped out and what a funny stroke of luck for those with multi-billion dollar shorts (including us fortunately so we shouldn’t complain too loudly). It’s amazing what "THEY" get away with right in front of us, in broad daylight….

About the film: Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

But some of the DVDs have this annoyance as well.

And the doloto site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee423534.aspx

Just curious, how many HN folks have attempted proj euler and how many problems have you solved ?

I am at Level 3 (103 problems).

A short snippet: What works extremely well is to take the basic idea of a list of mini-buffers (that is, smallish character arrays), and tweaking it, so that instead of keeping a list of sub-buffers, you put the sub-buffers into a binary tree. The result is a structure called a rope. To the best of my knowledge, ropes were invented by Hans Boehm (of garbage collection fame). Ropes are a simple, elegant data structure that's excellent for representing large string-like data structures. (The name is a pun: a real-world rope is made by twining together lots of smaller strings. A data-structure rope tangles together data-structure strings.)