acedio

The presenter, Devine, is one of the folks behind 100r :)

Tried seeing how small of a program I could fill the screen with. Came up with this, but feels like there has to be a more elegant solution ^^;

[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[F]]]]]]]]RRF[[R]R]]]]]]]]]

I was a projectionist at a local 14-plex for a couple of years back in college. It was a really excellent job for getting homework done while the machines buzzed in the background. I miss the simplicity and meditative quality of threading the machines and keeping everything on schedule, and often find myself wishing I could retreat to a job like that again. The occasional brain wrap (or worse, a thrown film) always kept us on our toes, but otherwise it was generally low stress and gave me plenty of time to think about whatever hobby I was into at the time :)

That's a better solution in general IMO, but the author's approach can guarantee that you'll never go over N calls in a sliding window rather than fixed windows. I don't believe that's possible with the timestamp + count solution. Gotta bring up both solutions and ask the interviewer what they want :)

From the article:

>> It's to be expected that these cameras might have little impact on the behavior of police officers in Washington, D.C., he says, because this particular force went through about a decade of federal oversight to help improve the department.

Seems as though the D.C. PD didn't have many issues that needed correcting?

Could be wrong, but I believe the areas you're referring to as continuous are the areas where it takes a while for the first flip to occur (if it ever does). Once a flip happens, neighboring cells seem to diverge quite quickly.

Yeah, I think the effect would have been better had they explained what was going on immediately rather than saving it until the end. Very cool tech, regardless :)