Hardcode

You don’t find each day such a high prize for an algorithmic contest. Basically all you have to do you is to write an algorithm to give better movie recommendations , you have a huge dataset of movie-related data to play with. Sounds fun and I may give it a try …

I managed to code a J2ME chat using a http connection that stays open, however there are few more problems: the database is polled to retrieve the new conversations and worse on IIS 6 I can’t stop the page when the connection is closed (IsClientConnected stays true)!

Here on DataLoadOptions implementation. I’m debugging a website and it seems that indeed in some cases DataLoadOptions works faster, in some cases it doesn’t, I just can’t find any explanation.

Also sometimes with Linq it may be faster to have many small queries to load the related child data than a single query using join, no idea why as it’s the same data in the end.

Ok, what the hell ? I’ve applied like 3 months ago and still no word from them. But why am I surprised, one of my friends have applied since the start of the program and still nothing …

If you remember, Bill Gates has bet on handwriting and speech recognition and text-to-speech. Wrong choice, the real next-gen devices seem to be (are?) multi-touch and accelerometer-based devices (as the iPhone and the Wiimote).

Related: What’s the difference between an accelerometer and a gyro(scope) ? While it seems to be pretty complicated (angular momentum?),