A blog about life…seen in bits of 1 and 0Tumblr (3.0; @tudalex)http://tudalex.com/<a href="http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/the-difference-between-a-developer-a-programmer-and-a-computer-scientist/">What type are you?</a>http://tudalex.com/post/7525255338http://tudalex.com/post/7525255338Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:18:16 +0300<p>For the last 2 days I&#8217;ve worked on integrating with the installer engine.</p> <p>Yesterday I&#8217;ve tried using some of the other engines made for the console or gui.</p> <p>The console installer failed to install (or I didn&#8217;t know how to use it, but often triggered a Segmentation Fault). And after many attempts the gui installer engine is well too integrated in the gui to adapt it easily.</p> <p>So today I tried to use the installerengine class, but I have problems, cause it doesn&#8217;t want to parse a config file from the web. Working on it!</p>http://tudalex.com/post/7019294319http://tudalex.com/post/7019294319Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:44:40 +0300<p>Our team Hakuna Matata (Iacob Radu, Gilca Mircea and me) qualified to the next phase of the ACM ICPC contest. Wish us Luck!</p>http://tudalex.com/post/6945159950http://tudalex.com/post/6945159950Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:57:45 +0300<p>I&#8217;ve been accepted to GSoC, and in order to deliver the status updates I&#8217;ve created another blog at <a href="http://gsoc.tudalex.com" target="_blank">http://gsoc.tudalex.com</a> Go check it out!</p>http://tudalex.com/post/6560989798http://tudalex.com/post/6560989798Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:03:55 +0300<a href="http://www.devttys0.com/2011/05/reverse-engineering-firmware-linksys-wag120n/">http://www.devttys0.com/2011/05/reverse-engineering-firmware-linksys-wag120n/</a>http://tudalex.com/post/6003099720http://tudalex.com/post/6003099720Mon, 30 May 2011 18:49:49 +0300<a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: typepad/sethsmainblog (Seth's Blog)">Seth's Blog: The triumph of coal marketing</a>http://tudalex.com/post/4041261004http://tudalex.com/post/4041261004Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:06:59 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfhec0PaKn1qz6pqio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://startupquote.com/post/2892285401" target="_blank">startupquote</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.</p> <p>- Alan Kay</p> </blockquote>http://tudalex.com/post/3064251062http://tudalex.com/post/3064251062Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:25:00 +0200quotesstartups<a href="http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/2851153384">myNoSQL: Apache Whirr: Cloud Common Service API</a>: <p><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/Index" target="_blank">Whirr</a>:</p> <blockquote> <ul><li>A cloud-neutral way to run services. You don’t have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of each provider.</li> <li>A common service API. The details of provisioning are particular to the service.</li> <li>Smart defaults for services. You can get a properly configured system running quickly, while…</li> </ul></blockquote>http://tudalex.com/post/2863661436http://tudalex.com/post/2863661436Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:00:06 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf9pjdxwg81qzkeizo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>via <a href="http://www.thedoghousediaries.com" target="_blank">The Doghouse Diaries</a></p>http://tudalex.com/post/2825395909http://tudalex.com/post/2825395909Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:35:00 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lesya75RAK1qzkeizo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>And this is how my CS homework looks like.</p>http://tudalex.com/post/2682540006http://tudalex.com/post/2682540006Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:25:00 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldm882C2eP1qzkeizo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://tudalex.com/post/2358153349http://tudalex.com/post/2358153349Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:43:13 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lch4f6enZY1qz6pqio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://startupquote.com/post/1687346049" target="_blank">startupquote</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.</p> <p>- Edwin Land</p> </blockquote>http://tudalex.com/post/2356939416http://tudalex.com/post/2356939416Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:01:07 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldk8pj2esr1qzkeizo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cand te lasa scanner-ul, nu ai altceva de facut decat sa iti construiesti propriul studio de copiere caiete.</p>http://tudalex.com/post/2346302407http://tudalex.com/post/2346302407Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:58:34 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcnfizM8DX1qzkeizo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dacie on dacie</p>http://tudalex.com/post/1726990701http://tudalex.com/post/1726990701Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:45:04 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb4ys1m2vo1qz6pqio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://startupquote.com/post/1443605662" target="_blank">startupquote</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.</p> <p>- Walt Disney</p> </blockquote>http://tudalex.com/post/1588764167http://tudalex.com/post/1588764167Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:38:36 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbcdroLUYE1qz6pqio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://startupquote.com/post/1476650485" target="_blank">startupquote</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The best way to predict the future is to invent it.</p> <p>- Alan Kay</p> </blockquote>http://tudalex.com/post/1581326330http://tudalex.com/post/1581326330Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:16:11 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_las62aORCG1qar4hdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://alexmarinescu.tumblr.com/post/1398461055/you-are-aweasome" target="_blank">alexmarinescu</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>You are aweasome</p> </blockquote>http://tudalex.com/post/1579965994http://tudalex.com/post/1579965994Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:21:14 +0200<a href="http://www.immah.ro/">Sa nu mai spuneti ca nu avem artisti talentati... si hazli!</a>: <p>PS: I think it is already a proper portfolio!</p>http://tudalex.com/post/1544501241http://tudalex.com/post/1544501241Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:22:00 +0200<p>I have a homework for the <a href="http://acs.pub.ro/" target="_blank">University</a> in which I have to say if a number is a palindrome or not. So I was wondering which method is going to be faster? Reading it as a string and checking it character by character or reading it as a int and comparing it to it&#8217;s reverse? </p> <p><span><strong>INT</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Pros: </strong>Faster checking</p> <p><strong>Cons: </strong>Had to generate the reverse of it which included using the % (mod) operator which we all know is time consuming</p> <p><span><strong>STRING</strong></span></p> <p><strong>Pros</strong>: Only had to check the first letters of a number in the case the number wasn&#8217;t palindrome.</p> <p><strong>Cons</strong>: Had to use strlen to get the length of the string.</p> <p>So I had written some simple scripts pretty fast and I was amazed to see that on a random dataset the string method is somewhere between 10-20% faster.</p> <p>I made an archive with all the scripts and the random number generator, you can get it <a target="_blank" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3817012/PC/string_vs_int.tar.bz2%20">here</a>.</p> <p>I am pretty sure that I can make a way in which I can find the length of the string from reading it, without reading character by character. What do you say?</p>http://tudalex.com/post/1448090415http://tudalex.com/post/1448090415Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:23:00 +0200<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/GN-fmbJomOg/hacking-education.html">Hacking education</a>http://tudalex.com/post/1344355955http://tudalex.com/post/1344355955Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:43:23 +0300