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Computing Weighted Random

Today I stumbled on a nice problem in a project I’m working on. I have an array with objects where each object has a weight. I then need to pick an object randomly while considering the weights (i.e heavier objects will get picked more often). If you think about this problem a bit you’ll definitely come up with a working solution, but Eli Bendersky took the time to sum it up nicely for all of us.

Thanks Eli! :)

Playing with Colors

This saturday noon we had a meal with the family. That day had a beautiful sun and I decided to try and make some interesting colors. Here’s what came out. What do you think?

Don’t you just love Xcode?

So was trying to debug my app in the simulator when I got one of these cryptic “Error 14389654: The debugger can’t launch the simulator” messages. Obviously the simulator was already running. Fine, let’s quit the simulator and Xcode, and relaunch them. But then when I hit Command+Q in Xcode I got this frightening error:

Don’t you just love Xcode?

Working with Git

I’ve been researching Git for some time now and started using it full time. I decided to give Git a try after having a lot of pain with SVN. The experience until now has been absolutely amazing! Read the rest of this entry »

At the beach with friends

So on friday morning I went to the beach with friends and took a few shots (some with my band new Tokina 11-16 :) )