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Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound 118

An anonymous reader writes "Anyone who's ever taken a programming course or tried to learn how to code out of a book will have come across sorting algorithms. Bubble, heap, merge — there's a long list of methods for sorting data. The subject matter is fairly dry. Thankfully, someone has found a way to not only make sorting more interesting, but easier to remember and understand, too."

Comment Fuck Off (Score 1) 172

The best thing about Flash, from a programming perspective, is that you don't have to write in a bunch of special cases for different platforms like you do when writing HTML/CSS/JS for IE/Mozilla/WebKit.

If this project catches on, it better be perfect or I'll be one of many writing a sniffer to block my apps from running on it.

Also, the 'Flash is buggy' stuff needs to stop. It makes you sound ignorant. Flash is a runtime. People can write wonderfully stable, efficient code in ActionScript or they can take down the whole process, just like they can in Java, C++, Objective C, or whatever. If flash wan't around, advertisers would hire the same half-wits to write banner ads in Java or JavaScript and your CPU fan would spin just as fast. (This is why you need adblock.)

Comment Damages my ass. (Score 0) 861

Prove that any of the people who downloaded this film illegally would have purchased it legally if downloading it wasn't an option. Prove that these people who said, "well, I wasn't interested enough to see it in the theater or rent it, but I hear it won some award so maybe I'll check it out" would have been thoroughly motivated to purchase or rent the movie. Your film bombed because it was crap. Deal with it.

Comment Re:A missile in a shipping container.... (Score 1) 618

Please. Targeting is a piece of cake:

http://www.boatingsf.com/ais_map.php

And terrorists seem to be less likely to target the military than they are to target civilians. (The end goal of organized terrorism is to push the government to become more restrictive, to the point that the citizens begin to turn against their government. It's worked in South America in the past. So by targeting civilians, the government is forced to clamp down by the very folks who will later decry the police state.)

Rather than an aircraft carrier, imagine a cruise missile targeting a full oil tanker in one of our more populous bays.

But, if you have a person who's ready to give up their own life, as the current crop of terrorists seems to have, you don't really need to waste your money on expensive and complicated electronics.

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