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Entries from June 2006

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken

June 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Waterboy points to an article by Joshua Bloch of Google Research worth reading: If someone ever asks you why does this computer thing have to be so complicated, review this little piece of math niceness with them. I find that encapsulates in a nice single story the simplicity of a mathematic idea with the complexity […]

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Skipping The Flash Intro On Your Website

June 19th, 2006 · No Comments

I did a study on this in the late 90's for a customer in which I came up with pretty much the same results. Even worse, skipping the website altogether was very high on the list. So not only did they not see the flash intro they never saw the homepage: “The common use of […]

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Native XMLHTTPRequest In IE7

June 1st, 2006 · No Comments

As Sunava Dutta points out, IE7 now includes a native XMLHTTPRequest object along side support of the ActiveX object as well. In looking into a BlogChat bug with IE7 Beta with help from Sunava and others from MS we have determined that the ActiveX implementation in IE7 doesn't work exactly the same as pre-IE7 browsers. […]

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