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Hopefully, this will give the spam blockers some insight into how to block this stuff..
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Thursday 19 June 2014
Wednesday 18 June 2014
Switching energy supplier - robots are better than humans
Our dual-fuel supplier was Scottish Power until this morning. A letter they sent me recently reminded me of just how much money they get from the joint account each month. I called their call centre to say that I was comparing prices and what was the best price rate they could offer?
One long and fruitless conversation with the (very lovely) Ian later and he is still unable to quote me their best deal. Ian himself is a lovely chap - excellent. His training, however, seems to have him guiding the conversation continuously AWAY FROM the subject of Tariff Comparison Rate (TCR). I asked for the best TCR several times and he seemed both unable and unwilling to discuss it. "Oh you want to know how much you'll be paying?" No goddamn it, show me the best TCR! It was as though he has been told to avoid the topic at all costs.
Now, I don't expect that Scottish Power's call centre are very different to any other. They are there to confuse, schmooze and bamboozle their way into KEEPING you as a customer and thereby maximizing profits as they gradually increase prices. Fair enough - they are there to make a profit from me. But they seem to expect me to just sit back and take ever-increasing prices on the chin without doing anything.
So where do you go? How about to a company who make money on CHANGING your provider based on saving you money.
Next time, I won't bother calling a human. I'll talk to a robot. The best ones keep it simple. With USwitch it took me 10 minutes to switch provider and save over £230 per year.
Thank you USwitch. You helped me move from a TCR of:
Scottish Power Standard: 16.62p/kWh for electricity and 4.97p/kWh for gas
to...
EDF Blue: 13.73p/kWh for electricity and 4.48p/kWh for gas.
Remember: TCR. Nothing else matters. Especially NOT the quality of customer service. The better trained the human, the less they work in your favour. Go for a robot instead.
One long and fruitless conversation with the (very lovely) Ian later and he is still unable to quote me their best deal. Ian himself is a lovely chap - excellent. His training, however, seems to have him guiding the conversation continuously AWAY FROM the subject of Tariff Comparison Rate (TCR). I asked for the best TCR several times and he seemed both unable and unwilling to discuss it. "Oh you want to know how much you'll be paying?" No goddamn it, show me the best TCR! It was as though he has been told to avoid the topic at all costs.
Now, I don't expect that Scottish Power's call centre are very different to any other. They are there to confuse, schmooze and bamboozle their way into KEEPING you as a customer and thereby maximizing profits as they gradually increase prices. Fair enough - they are there to make a profit from me. But they seem to expect me to just sit back and take ever-increasing prices on the chin without doing anything.
So where do you go? How about to a company who make money on CHANGING your provider based on saving you money.
Next time, I won't bother calling a human. I'll talk to a robot. The best ones keep it simple. With USwitch it took me 10 minutes to switch provider and save over £230 per year.
Thank you USwitch. You helped me move from a TCR of:
Scottish Power Standard: 16.62p/kWh for electricity and 4.97p/kWh for gas
to...
EDF Blue: 13.73p/kWh for electricity and 4.48p/kWh for gas.
Remember: TCR. Nothing else matters. Especially NOT the quality of customer service. The better trained the human, the less they work in your favour. Go for a robot instead.
Friday 30 May 2014
Truecrypt development team compromised?
It appears that the Truecrypt development team have been compromised by the NSA using some brute-force social engineering.
The Truecrypt home page and its Warrant Canary has disappeared from the web (including from the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://truecrypt.org ), which indicates that they have been served with an order for user data under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
The old Truecrypt page at http://truecrypt.org/ now redirects to a page at http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ which encourages migration to BitLocker. As the Bitlocker team appear to having been targeted by the NSA, the Truecrypt developers are either being *extremely* tongue in cheek in hinting to the community about a Lavabit-style social engineering attack or they are plain stupid. I'd go for the former.
A new Swiss group has sprung up at http://truecrypt.ch/ to fork the source, but "who are these guys then?".
For now, do NOT migrate to Bitlocker. Instead, keep using Truecrypt 7.1a until such time that the new Swiss group's credentials can be checked and a rolling code audit process has been established.
John Gilmore's quote from TIME magazine springs to mind:
The Truecrypt home page and its Warrant Canary has disappeared from the web (including from the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://truecrypt.org ), which indicates that they have been served with an order for user data under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
The old Truecrypt page at http://truecrypt.org/ now redirects to a page at http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ which encourages migration to BitLocker. As the Bitlocker team appear to having been targeted by the NSA, the Truecrypt developers are either being *extremely* tongue in cheek in hinting to the community about a Lavabit-style social engineering attack or they are plain stupid. I'd go for the former.
A new Swiss group has sprung up at http://truecrypt.ch/ to fork the source, but "who are these guys then?".
For now, do NOT migrate to Bitlocker. Instead, keep using Truecrypt 7.1a until such time that the new Swiss group's credentials can be checked and a rolling code audit process has been established.
John Gilmore's quote from TIME magazine springs to mind:
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Microsoft Research Code Hunt Walkthrough
Introduction
What is Code Hunt?
On May 15th, as seen on Reddit the Microsoft Research Team announced Code Hunt, an online "game" that claims to help you learn to code. Not too sure about that, but it is certainly an interesting way to pass the time and may even teach you a few things along the way. Inevitably, though you get stuck and need hints.
This post
The purpose of this post is not to give you all the answers to Code Hunt. If you're looking for that, you're in the wrong place! What it will do is explain how to find all the answers and why your answers are not optimal. With the information given here, you should be able to receive full marks and learn something along the way. We only use C# here, but the information can equally be applied to Java.
Resources
You may find use for:
Walkthrough
Sign up
First things first, sign up and log in to ensure that you keep your progress between sessions.
General approach
The problems do not come with any specification of what the tested method should achieve, so the first thing is to reverse engineer the specification from the input->output expectations presented by the system. One approach to achieving this is to use concatenated ternary operators using the tested input parameters as follows:
Once you have reverse engineered the method's intended purpose, you should apply documentation comments with triple-slashes. Always document your code!
Finally, implement the function as efficiently as you can:
If Microsoft agree that your code is both correct and succinct, you get maximum points!
00 Training
00.02 Inky fingers
Look at the input value. Look at the output value. Not much difference is there?
00.03 Doubly tricky
Output is a multiple of input.00.04 Nonplussed?
Output combines inputs.
01 Arithmetic
01.01 Are you positive?
Output is a simple function of input.
01.02 A bit more different
Add a constant to the input value.
01.03 Don't be so square
A higher order function.
01.04 Magic numbers
A lower order function
01.05 Divide and conquer
Magic!
01.06 More over?
Sounds like...
01.07 What's the difference?
Why fewer?
01.08 Why try more?
...than x. First order.
01.09 You star!
Go forth...
01.10 Tricky
The first one, the second third.
01.11 Get this one over with
The other goes down under.
01.12 A modern approach
Read up on the modulo operator (the percent sign).
01.13 Even more modern
Similar to the previous puzzle. But more. so.
01.14 WHAT?!
I must confess, originally I only managed to get the following:
It then took a LOT of staring to realise that this was some sort of modulo, but I didn't get it. Thanks and kudos go to MegjelenőNév for pointing out that this one requires x both before AND after the modulo. Spoiler: answer in comments below.
01.14 Of Average difficulty
You know what I mean.
02 Loops
Now the loops can all be achieved using regular loops, but in this modern age of LINQ, who uses loops? I have provided all my Linq-based answers. Please work out WHY these are correct (though not necessarily the highest-scoring) answers...
02.01 Simple Range
Read up on The LINQ Range method. It may not do what you think!
02.02 Squares
02.03 More Squares
02.04 Add 'em up
This one is a little weird and requires a pair of casts...
02.05 One fewer squares
02.06 Count the a's
02.07 Count the input chars
03 Loops 2
03.01 Ternary operator
For this one, I AM going to directly give you the right answer, and it's a single line. Read up on the C# ternary operator to find out how this works...
return power==0?1:power==1?number:number*Puzzle(number, power-1);
Here's how to read the above...
Return the following value:
- If power is 0 then 1 otherwise
- If the power is 1 then number otherwise
- The number multiplied by a recursive call to this function against the number but for one lower power.
03.02 LINQ Aggregate
For this one, again, I am going to give you the answer. Read up on the LINQ Aggregate function, which recursively multiplies. You should then be able to see why this is an acceptable solution:
return Enumerable.Range(1,i).Aggregate(1, (x,y) => x * y);
03.03 More Range, More Aggregate
Now that you have the answer to 03.02, you should be able to solve 03.03. Of course, you read up on exactly how LINQ Range works didn't you? No? Shame! Go read up on EXACTLY what each term does.
Now, can you explain why this works?:
return Enumerable.Range(lowerBound,upperBound-lowerBound).Aggregate(upperBound, (soFar,newValue) => soFar * newValue);
03.04 Wot no LINQ?
No LINQ needed for this one really... Half one fewer by half one more.
03.05 Non-optimal LINQ
Enumerable.Range(1, upperBound).Sum(a=>a%2==upperBound%2?a*a:0);
Now make it optimal.
03.06 LINQ Repeat
Here's part of the answer. Now if only there were a way of JOINing STRINGs...
Enumerable.Repeat('_', word.Length)
03.07 Casting to int
Here's a framework.
return new string(s.ToCharArray().Select(c=>(char)(MATHS!).ToArray());
Hint: you can cast a char as an int.
03.08 I am not a number!
I'm a free string!04 Conditionals
04.01 OR
04.02 AND
04.03 LESS THAN
04.04 LESS THAN again
04.05 i<0?-1MYSTERYCHARACTERi>0?1:0
04.06 MORE THAN
04.07 i<WHAT?NUM:ANOTHERNUM
04.08 Modulo ternary string / string
04.09 (i%NUM!=0?STRING1:STRING2) + STRING3
One is empty - which one?
04.10 Similar to the previous
04.11 Redouble?
04.12 i<NUM1?NUM2:i<NUM3?NUM4:NUM5
05 Conditionals 2
05.01 Oh, simple ternary
05.02 LINQ distinct count
05.03 What sort of triangle?
05.04 Show us those abdominals!
05.05 Square equality
06 Strings
06.01 I did not write elegant code.
But then I didn't need to!?
06.02 Non-optimal - make it better
var charArray = s.ToCharArray();
return Enumerable.Range(0,charArray.Length).Select(n=>n%2==0?charArray[n].ToString().ToUpper():charArray[n].ToString()).Aggregate((a,b)=>a+b);
06.03 Reverse, split, uppercasefirst, join, reverse
06.04 s at x
06.05 one plus two
06.06 second half
06.07 upper lesser second half + second half
06.08 which is longer?
06.09 the longer or both
06.10 third
06.11 WHAT?! again
See Andrew Furdell's hint below.
06.12 string + reverse
07 Strings 2
07.01 two three one one three two
07.02 first half
07.03 replace b with c
07.04 reverse
07.05 stringbuilder every other use mod
07.06 use string.Replace()
07.07 Vwls r bd m'ky?
07.08 Everything seems to be in order
Use IndexOf
07.09 Enumerable Repeat string Join
Do it all in one line07.10 Hmm
I have the following:
var alphabet = "a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z";
return string.Join(" ",Enumerable.Range(0,t).Select(n=>n!=t-1?alphabet:alphabet.Substring(0,50-n*2) + "z").ToArray());
Now how to improve?
08 Nested Loops
OK, so everyone can write nested for loops. But we're better than that now aren't we? ;-) Unfortunately, these efforts are not appreciated by Microsoft so most of these are considered non-optimal answers. IF that is the case, there is something wrong either with their compiler optimisations, or with their code evaluation algorithm.
08.01 Factorial sums
Now Microsoft have just got this one plain wrong. The following code is a quite reasonable attempt to sum the factorials between i and j:
return Enumerable.Range(i, j-i+1).Sum(x=>Enumerable.Range(1,x).Aggregate((a, b) => b * a));
However, this get rejected for two really weird cases:
For input values of i=12, j=13, Microsoft give the answer -1883912192. Clearly wrong. 12! + 13! is 6706022400.
For input values of i=3, j=64, Microsoft gives the answer null. Null?! Null is not even a legitimate return value. Don't bother with this one, it can't be done.
UPDATE: Kudos to MW, who (SPOILER) has given a full 3-star answer in the comments, below.
UPDATE: Kudos to MW, who (SPOILER) has given a full 3-star answer in the comments, below.
08.02 Hashes
This one is easy to do with nested loops or new string('#', x), but can you do it with LINQ?
Here's the kind of code you should be writing by now...:
return string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(1,n).Select(a=>new string('#', a) + " "))
Microsoft didn't give full marks to the following, so I don't feel bad about sharing the following:
return string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(0,n+1).Select(a=>string.Join("",Enumerable.Range(0,n+1).Select(x=>x>a?"_":x.ToString())) + " "));
return string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(1,n).Select(a=>new string('#', a) + " "))
08.03 Alpha underscores
Easy to see what they are wanting here, and easy to lazily implement in for loops.Microsoft didn't give full marks to the following, so I don't feel bad about sharing the following:
return string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(0,n+1).Select(a=>string.Join("",Enumerable.Range(0,n+1).Select(x=>x>a?"_":x.ToString())) + " "));
08.04 Dash on N
More LINQ awesomeness:
return string.Join(" ",Enumerable.Range(1,n).Select(a=>string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(1,n).Select(y=>y!=a?b:"-"))));
08.05 Underscore at N
Blah blah LINQ blah:
return string.Join(" ",Enumerable.Range(0,a.Length).Select(b=>string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(0,a.Length).Select(y=>y!=b?a.Substring(y,1):"_"))));
08.06 Have LINQ hammer. Everything is a nail.
return string.Join(" ",Enumerable.Range(1,size).Select(b=>string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(1,size).Select(y=>b!=1&&b!=size&&y!=1&&y!=size?"_":"$"))));
08.07 LINQ -> Noughts and Crosses
return string.Join(" ",Enumerable.Range(0,height).Select(heightPos=>string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(0,width).Select(widthPos=>(widthPos+heightPos)%2==0?"x":"o"))));
08.08 OK, I admit, not pretty, but I'm committed to it now...
I will tidy this one up later with Math.Abs()...
return
string.Join(" ",Enumerable.Range(1,number).Select(index=>string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(0,index).Select(a=>index.ToString()))))
+ " " +
string.Join(" ",Enumerable.Range(1,number-1).Select(index=>string.Join("", Enumerable.Range(0,number - index).Select(a=>(number-index).ToString()))));
09 1D Arrays
09.01 list at i
09.02 First and last
09.03 LINQ Contains()
09.04 Enumerable.Range
09.05 Enumerable.Range again
09.06 And again...
09.06 And again...
09.07 ToCharArray then LINQ then back to String
09.08 Enumerable.Range again
09.09 Select a=> -a
09.10 Array.Reverse()
09.11 To CharArray, Reverse and Join
09.12 Buggy test?
My answer here is
return Enumerable.Range(numbers.Length-amount, numbers.Length).Select(a=>numbers[a%numbers.Length]).ToArray();
This results in...
I have NO idea.
UPDATE: Kudos to MW, who (SPOILER) has given a full 3-star answer in the comments, below.
UPDATE: Kudos to MW, who (SPOILER) has given a full 3-star answer in the comments, below.
09.13 Coming soon...
09.14 Enumerable.Range with Math.Max and Select
10 Jagged Arrays
All the following can be used to get 3 stars
10.01 List at i,j
10.02 Three star answer...
You need to use Enumerable.Repeat<T>.
10.03 Same as previous
10.04 Nested projections
10.05 Same as before, but use Sum() with a ternary
10.06 Same as before, but use Max()
10.07 Coming soon...
10.08 Larger of the sum of the last or sum of the first
11 Arrays 2
11.01 Zip, Concat and Skip
11.02 SelectMany() flattens
11.03 This one makes me cross..
Can someone explain to me why this does not work?!
return
Enumerable.Range(0, input.Length).Sum(arrayIndex=>(long)input[arrayIndex][arrayIndex])
==
Enumerable.Range(0, input.Length).Sum(arrayIndex=>(long)input[arrayIndex][input.Length-1-arrayIndex])
;
11.04 The modern way is Linq
11.05 string + condition?string:string.Empty
11.06 Linq t?"E":r?"N":a?"R":"Y"
11.07 Linq to Pivot using Enumerable.Range and [y][x]
12 Search Sort
12.01 .Count ==
12.02 Same again
12.03 Cleverness gives 1*
Use FirstOrDefault()
list.Select((item, index) => new { Item = item, Index = index })
12.04 Same but LastOrDefault() instead
12.05 Same but ToArray()
12.06 Simple Select()
12.07 Pairs sum
12.08 Coming soon...
12.09 Ever increasing
12.10 Distinct Count
12.11 Array.Sort()
12.12 Yes, it works for strings too!
13 Cyphers
13.01 int cast +7 %26 -97
13.02 Different mod, different base
13.03 Different offset per character
13.04 nn mm nineteen nineteen
14 Puzzles
14.01 Sum
14.02 6003
14.03 Coming soon...
14.04 Coming soon...
Saturday 3 May 2014
Tuesday 29 April 2014
Zettics acquires Velocent
ZETTICS ACQUIRES VELOCENT TO PROVIDE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME 360 DEGREE VIEW OF A SUBSCRIBER’S EXPERIENCE AVAILABLE TODAY
Operators can now leverage a single analytics suite to deliver significant business improvement in network, customer care, marketing, and 3rd party monetization
Concord, MA – 29 April 2014 – Zettics, the market leader in Actionable Subscriber Analytics for mobile operators, today announced it has acquired Velocent Systems. The combined entity will provide a subscriber-centric, real-time analytics suite that integrates data usage, network performance, and customer experience metrics into a single, unified view for the operator. Having these data sets in one solution will allow operators to realize unique business benefits that were previously unavailable in the market.
Commenting on the acquisition, Sterling Wilson, President and CEO of Zettics said, “Velocent is the market leader in network analysis and Customer Experience Assurance (CEA) for mobile data. Combining Velocent’s capabilities with Zettics’ deep expertise in analyzing data usage for marketing, care and monetization results in a world-class solution for operators. Both companies have complementary technology, customers, and employees that together will deliver unprecedented business improvement to operators worldwide.”
Zettics technology will now derive an unparalleled amount of unique intelligence from a combination of a subscriber’s data usage and corresponding network performance. This includes behavioral metrics (engagement, interests, and segmentation) combined with experiential metrics (latency, throughput, and tonnage) across a variety of apps and services such as browsing, video, audio, and VoLTE. Zettics enables this business critical information to be accessed through an interactive UI, a low-latency API, or integrated via real-time alarms or extracts into operator systems. Multiple tier-1 operators across the world use Zettics and Velocent to improve their business today.
“Operators will finally have the tools they need to simultaneously understand their network performance, along with their subscribers’ experience, behavioral trends and consumption patterns. By effectively and efficiently monitoring both the data and evolving VoLTE networks, operators will be able to deliver a truly enhanced customer experience,” said Ian Herbert-Jones, Velocent’s CEO.
The transaction closed on April 25th, 2014. Zettics is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts with offices, partners, and major operator customers across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. Sterling Wilson and Asa Kalavade will continue in their roles as President/CEO and CTO/SVP of Products, respectively. Ian Herbert-Jones, Velocent’s CEO, will assume the position of Zettics’ SVP of Business Development and Channel Management, and Velocent’s CTO, Stephen Douglas, will assume the position of VP Technology.
About Zettics
Zettics, the leader in Actionable Subscriber Analytics, delivers immediate insights that drive significant business improvement and subscriber value. These real-time insights deliver a 360° subscriber view of data usage, network performance and customer experience, enabling operators to extract greater value from their networks, products, and services, while fully complying with subscriber privacy policies. Operators that choose Zettics generate new revenues, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce costs.
Zettics, the leader in Actionable Subscriber Analytics, delivers immediate insights that drive significant business improvement and subscriber value. These real-time insights deliver a 360° subscriber view of data usage, network performance and customer experience, enabling operators to extract greater value from their networks, products, and services, while fully complying with subscriber privacy policies. Operators that choose Zettics generate new revenues, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce costs.
Zettics’ patented technology powers a unified suite of subscriber-centric analytics solutions for network, marketing, care and data monetization business units. Operators are already using Zettics to reduce churn, improve customer care, monetize data with third parties, reduce and prioritize infrastructure investments, segment their users for advanced marketing, enrich their CRM systems, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, and more.
Zettics technology is deployed with leading operators in the world, processing trillions of records monthly. Zettics has offices worldwide and its investors include North Bridge Venture Partners, Voyager Capital, Steamboat Ventures, Emergence Capital, Excelestar Ventures, DRW Trading Group, and Jump Capital.
Monday 28 April 2014
Hadoop Learnings
Hadoop Tutorial: Intro to HDFS
Sameer Farooqui gives a very clear overview of the Hadoop Distributed File System. 33:35 - 5*
Microsoft .NET SDK for Hadoop
Yay! Microsoft really believes in Hadoop... 4*
Low latency OLAP with HBase
Presentation on implementing OLAP-like functionality in HBase. Not entirely convinced... 2*
Saturday 12 April 2014
Setting up a new MVC4 app on a fresh machine
For Windows Server 2008 R2, first set up Web Deploy:
- Install IIS
- Download and install the Web Platform Installer (WPI)
- WPI: Install MVC4
- WPI: Install Management Service
- In the Services app, set the Web Management Service to start automatically but don't start it yet
- (Re)start the IIS Manager
- Select the server node and in the bottom part of the main pane will be an icon "Management Service". Double-click that
- Enable remote connections (setting up security as appropriate)
- Install Web Deploy 3.5 using the download, not the WebPI (if you did this earlier, you may have to change it in "Add/Remove Programs" to ensure that all features are enabled and restart IIS
- Create new website with an appropriate App Pool (.NET 4)
- In Visual Studio on the remote machine, publish the app using Web Deploy and validate the connection
- Accept the security certificate
- Re-register ASP.NET with c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
- Create a new MVC4 app in Visual Studio with Razor
- Publish!
Lovely - you should now be able to run you app. However... You will want these NuGet packages, which you can install from the Package Manager Console:
- Install-Package MvcHtml5Templates adds EditorTemplates for the new html5 input types including email, tel, and url
- Install-Package Bootstrap makes it work across all devices (I like http://getbootstrap.com/examples/sticky-footer-navbar/)
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