OddThinking

Apparently, I used C# well before the iPhone.

Report generation involves a conflict of interest, leading to proliferation.

I introduce the game of Captive Queens, explain the rules, analyse the tactics and determine the chance of winning.

To decide who is “it” (or “in”) first, in a playground game, such as chasey (a.k.a. tag), a fixed algorithmic process is used to make a pseudo-random choice.

Of course, this is a deterministic procedure, and we can, with diligence, careful calculation, computational power and just a little bit of luck, reverse engineer the algorithm and determine who will be eventually selected.

How many Australian locations have repeated names, like Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy and Curl Curl?

Here is a software analysis anti-pattern I have seen many times in my career. It is popping up in my current project, and I am trying to work out how to subvert it early.

“But, Julian,” I hear you ask, “What words in the English language have the most anagrams?”

Today, I am justifying a particular personal coding standard rule. If I explicitly argue the case, I hope I will conform to it more.

Wishing someone a Happy New Year may subject you to a Denial-of-Service Attack

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to test whether occasional attendees have a rosier view of attendance levels than the regulars.