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[voodooflux]

Morning ED

How's tricks?

Morning ED. How's tricks?

There's an echo in here.

There's an echo in here.

[El_Diablo]

Morning ED

How's tricks?

I'll tell you how tricks are, stupid ClientCo1 PA minion type plebian-ette sent me to the wrong site for a meeting, happy I was not!

Ostensibly she got confused with the building numbering...

[voodooflux]

Ostensibly she got confused with the building numbering...

Those pesky numbers can be tricky can't they.

[El_Diablo]

Just put forward a proposal to save client co 1.25 million euros/year and they've accepted it.




Slightly cuffing pleased with myself.

Kudos to you SP!

[El_Diablo]

Those pesky numbers can be tricky can't they.

I might have to put a minion of my own in at ClientCo1 hehehe.

[El_Diablo]

Where are you lot?

I'm reading lots of good stuff on blogs I've never read before (the usual thing... you find something good in your feeds, and that links to something good, and then that blog turns out to have loads of other good stuff, and more good links out, and before you realise it you're halfway across the web. I just love this hypertext thing Thank you, TBL for your "internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing" - works for me )

If any of youse can rouse yourselves from your slumbers, try this excellent post about what best to know if you want to get a job at Google - although please note, he puts the caveats first, and they should not be skimmed

For myself, I'm going to go over everything in there - in particular, I actually can't implement two separate O(n*log(n)) sorting algorithms from scratch (although I do know what Big-O means) and I shall be correcting this appalling lack of knowledge tomorrow

Oh, and although he doesn't mention it, there's one thing you should know: trees (not those things outside that make wood for a living, the CompSci kind) are acyclic directed graphs, so you can slot them into the learning-about-graphs bit, which is (IMHO) a win

Although if you ever do get into a project that involves analysing the growth of those leafy things outside that make wood for a living, do bear in mind that their structure and development can be modelled using a directed acyclic graph - that's why directed acyclic graphs are usually referred to as "trees". Theory imitates life, and all that

Of course, the almost infinite malleability of nature means that there are exceptions... it might be sensible to gen up on cyclic directed graphs too

I notice that the Associate Producer of Babylon 5 was Susan Norkin.

I've got to commend you Nick on your excellent posting skills

[HeliCraig]

Hey, I have to put something in there to keep you support chaps in your toes.

I have gone to great lengths to distance myself from them. Leave it there sunshine.

[cailin maith]

Morning all

Hey ED

[voodooflux]

I have gone to great lengths to distance myself from them. Leave it there sunshine.

moved desks

[El_Diablo]

Hey ED

Good morning you paddle swivelling expert, how are you today?