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Countdown to TechEd Europe: Come to Berlin On Us!
Sep 23, 2010 at 1:03 AMPlease come to Stockholm! It's a beautiful city!
Countdown to PDC10: There’s one pass left! Is your name on it?
Aug 17, 2010 at 9:11 AMBecause Mike, I want to complain bitterly to you in person for giving me those sleepless nights back in 2008, when you guys had the Hard Hat Challenges...
Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher
Oct 22, 2008 at 1:17 PMJust let me know... Am I on the wrong track?
This challenge was not easy! The winner should receive two shirts.
/JiNX - See you at PDC...
Countdown to PDC2008: Parallel Computing and Getting Your Head in the Cloud
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Countdown to PDC2008: Technical Fellow John Shewchuk Talks About His Talk at PDC2008
Sep 23, 2008 at 12:08 AMActually, I saw the challenge yesterday morning for the first time. I read the nice clues above fromFridjon (Thanks btw...), and I immediately associated everything to the good old Amiga-days, when we used to make demos with nice vector graphics in them... These numbers just had to be vectors. I figured that the groups of four numbers must be "Distance" (the length of the vector), a "Point" (X and Y coords) and "Direction" (the angle). The problem was just which number was what? The last number was the only one in each group that was larger than 0, so that had to be the length. The third number spanned from negative to positive numbers, so I guessed that had to be the angle. That left the coordinates to number one and two.
Then I created a small C# program that would draw all these vectors (using what's left of my old trigonometry knowledge from the scene). Of course nothing showed up... But then I thought about "the wrong direction", so I animated a rotation on every vector, and after some "trial and horror" a text magically appeared in front of me... "ASK THE BRAIN ABOUT XYZZY". So I did...
Countdown to PDC2008: Technical Fellow John Shewchuk Talks About His Talk at PDC2008
Sep 22, 2008 at 1:13 PMBrianna says:
A hollow voice says "PDC."