Jay's Notes – Code, baduk, random thoughts.

I was posed a fun question the other day: If you only have 10 letters on your keyboard, which ten letters allow you to type the most number of different words. As this was posted on Twitter, I wanted to give the answer, and include the generating code...

Just the other day, I had a very low scoring game of Go, and both sides had very few points. That got me thinking: "What's the lowest scoring game ever played?" This question is not well-defined because of captures and KOs. So I re-worded it to: "What...

After spending the last couple of nights fiddling with my .vimrc, I think I've come up with a no-nonsense set of fold settings.
My philosophy for a .vimrc has always been a self-contained single file that doesn't depend on plugins. This way, I can copy and paste it into a new environment and be comfortable with light to heavy editing....

There was once an old system that did things. It did those things well for five years; but then one day, it stopped doing some of the things.
You see this system was in charge of doing a whole lot of things, so it forked 10 copies of itself, so that each copy could take care of a smaller portion. The system kept track of each forked child by tracking its PID. If it detected that a child was...