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Feeling good about Berta today

Today I used my most advanced project for the very first time. And it was awesome

When O(N) is better than O(log N)?

We are used to think that O(log N) is always better than O(N), but it is not always true.

Interview coding skill

Coding on the interviews is an independent skill from real coding.

Java 8 lamdas

Last night I wrote a code using Java 8 lambdas for the first time. And I loved it!

SringBuilder vs StringBuffer revisited

I am sure you have read about StringBuilder being faster than StringBuffer so many times, that you are sick of it already. Fun fact is: it is not faster.

Scala Option performance cost

I wanted to measure how much extra cost does Scala Option incurs.

Parsing address string in PostgreSQL

Sample query to parse address line into fields in PostgreSQL without stored procedures

Funny code

Unexpected iteration over java linked list