It's Cold

August 20, 2013, 11:39 am

Apparently there is snow falling in the Australian alps which doesn't improve how I feel about how goddamn cold it suddenly got. Obviously, I need some code to heat up my laptop.



# some code to heat up my freaking lap
from cmath import exp, pi
import random
 
# thanks http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform for the FFT code
def fft(x):
    N = len(x)
    if N <= 1: return x
    even = fft(x[0::2])
    odd =  fft(x[1::2])
    return [even[k] + exp(-2j*pi*k/N)*odd[k] for k in xrange(N/2)] + \
           [even[k] - exp(-2j*pi*k/N)*odd[k] for k in xrange(N/2)]
 
while (True):
    print fft([random.random (),
    random.random (),
    random.random (),
    random.random (),
    random.random (),
    random.random (),
    random.random (),
    random.random ()])

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Four years and $19,999

August 3, 2013, 3:59 am

I thought people might be interested in what four years of iOS side projects looks like.

So was all that time working well below minimum wage worth it? Totally. There is nothing better to sharpen your saw as a developer (and as an entrepreneur) than building real products and selling them to real people.

Screenshot from AppViz

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CLGeocoder is not an Opera fan

April 15, 2013, 6:22 am

I realise that Reverse Geocoding is a pretty tricky problem and probably will always be a work in progress, but the CLGeocoder bug I found today was so amusing I had to post. Things like this make this API less useful than it otherwise could be.