Triangular N-Queens Challenge!

Note: I am competing in the CS Games in Canada, and will not be able to approve comments for the time being.
The Challenge
Triangular N-Queens
This is a problem that I faced in the 2006 ACM Greater New York Programming competition. I failed to solve it at the competition, but I was determined to do it at [...]

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Dijkstra is now 980 Dollars an Ounce

I know of one –very successful– software firm in which it is a rule of the house that for a one-year project coding is not allowed to start before the ninth month! In this organization they know that the eventual code is no more than the deposit of your understanding. When I told its director [...]

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People are the Problem, not Operator Overloading

Alternate Title
I’m 12 years late to the party. Again. Hear me out.
Java Does it Wrong
Java’s design leans heavily on the (correct) belief that the average programmer is imperfect, lazy, and ill-informed. In response, Java acts like a typical overbearing parent. Java knows that you’re too lazy to check whether or not you’re REALLY writing inside [...]

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