Posted in daily on Apr 11th, 2007
The picture says it all. Multitasking really slows you down. Suppose you have two tasks to do: Task A and Task B. When you perform your tasks alternately (as in the top line) you pay a big overhead cost. Each time you are resuming a task, you have to load all the information [...]
Posted in python on Apr 8th, 2007
The Python Challenge had started two years ago, in April 2005. The basic idea of the Python Challenge was to introduce people to the wonderful world of Python by creating a puzzle which will encourage them to solve programmatic problems with a bit of Python code. It got amazingly popular and some people had admitted [...]
Posted in daily on Apr 8th, 2007
How I transferred my latin1 encoded wordpress blog into a perfectly working database setup with UTF8 encoding.
Posted in python, turbogears on Apr 2nd, 2007
It’s always funny to see your content translated or mentioned in another language. This time it is special, since even the screenshot (and food) got some localization.
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