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enplaned, AVWeb, and Wings to Adventure

Posted by Stephen Waits Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:04:49 GMT

Tim Bray posted a link to a thorough airline biz blog, called enplaned. Looks fantastic, I’m subscribed. That puts me at 86 feeds.. I need to prune soon!

Additionally, I’ve been reading AVWeb for years. It’s bi-weekly newsletter, covering news across the entire aviation spectrum. I highly recommend it to anyone with interest in aviation.

Finally, I recently discovered a fantastic TV show, called Wings to Adventure, on OLN. I found this via an advertisement on AVWeb. I’ve only caught one episode thus far, but it was fantastic. It even had a commercial from Cirrus Design – any show sponsored by Cirrus has to be cool right? In that episode, they explored flying to Catalina Island, off the Los Angeles coast, amongst other things. The nice thing is they aren’t afraid to talk in pilot-speak; in other words, it’s not dumbed down – instead they seem to be aiming right at pilots. Very cool!

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Ruby Quiz #60 - Test Cases

Posted by Stephen Waits Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:57:31 GMT

I think about all I’m going to be able to actually accomplish on this quiz is to generate a few test cases via brute force or stochastic search. That said, here they are – please let me know if you find shorter solutions so that I may update my own cases.

Update: Christer Nilsson pointed out a better solution for 300 -> 1. I’ve corrected it in my test suite.

Update: Peter Burns has updated my test code, fixing several cases, and making it a bit more data-centric. Check it out here. As a side note, my original code was output by a C++ program. Blush.

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