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Between a major work deadline (on Wednesday) and a house move (all week) I haven’t had as much time as I’d like for writing. Rest assured I’ve been doing research (meetings, emailing questions, and even a couple of interviews) for a few articles, including: Job interviews: Don’t Panic! Consultants: Are they really consulted or just [...]

Joshua Bloch has posted on the Official Research Blog about how most binary search and merge sort code is broken and has been for years. The bug is to do with large arrays, and highlights how often programmers accept code that will do “for the examples we have right now” rather than considering whether it’ll [...]