Here’s the key takeaway from this post: use the scientific method to deal with bugs, rather than relying only on your intuition—never assume “ghosts” are influencing your code, infrastructure, libraries, or even making fun of you through the Internet. Has this ever happened to you? You’re a developer sitting at your desk. Suddenly, a fellow developer with less experience reaches … Read more »
When someone says the word blockchain, most think of the boom and bust cycle in cryptocurrency prices, creating and destroying fortunes in a matter of days. Taking a look behind this wild price action reveals a technology which aims to disrupt the way value is exchanged between individuals and organizations, by creating a secure world database of all transactions. In the past, … Read more »
Have you ever played chess? If yes, you already know that the queen is the most important piece and that it can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally. If you haven’t, don't worry: today, we'll only learn how to place 8 queens on the chessboard such that no queen is able to move to a square occupied by another queen. In chess jargon, we say that the queens … Read more »
Problem solving is a hard, strenuous activity for which, most of the time, there are no fixed rules. Thus, when a book comes out claiming to provide some sort of script for problem solving, it will inevitably draw a lot of attention. It was so with Polya’s “How to Solve It”, published in 1945. But the book became a huge success–more than one million copies sold world wide–not only … Read more »
