Month: March 2021

Producer and Consumer – Part 2

Yesterday the temperature in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul reached 72F which is quite pleasant for this time of the year. Today we are expecting 42F for a high. That is a drop of 30F! At least the day is forecasted to be sunny.

I also received a message from Gleves48061@hotmail.com regarding my post Revenue Milestones in Java. Not sure what it was all about so I will not comment on it at this time. If I could get an updated comment, I will review and reply as needed. Thanks. Continue reading “Producer and Consumer – Part 2”

Two Sum – Revisited

It is a very nice sunny day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Today is March 29, 2021 and the high for the day is going to be around 70F. My wife and I talked about grilling chicken for lunch but it is a work day and the process of grilling, eating and cleaning might take a couple hours. That is fine on a holiday.

I decided to attempt to solve all problems in a section of LeetCode. It seems that several problems that I have solved before fall into this collection. I will take a problem from each category a day. Perhaps on weekends I will look at two. Continue reading “Two Sum – Revisited”

Producer and Consumer

Hope you are doing well. I fully understand that not all countries are moving quickly to vaccinate most their population against COVID-19. Hopefully the efforts have already started and will be completed soon. Here in the USA it seems that every state is moving at its own pace. That said, a large amount of people have received at least the first of two jabs. The youngest I know of is of age 21. The world needs to get as much of its population vaccinated as possible to achieve herd immunity. If this is not done the virus will continue to mutate and the threat of COVID-19 might remain for years or decades.

It seems that Israel is leading the vaccination process. As in many other countries, there are some people that do not wish to get vaccinated. The prime minister of Israel has made some clever, and for what I understand legal changes to motivate all their citizens and residents to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

In a nutshell the idea is that the good of the majority needs to prevail. People will not be forced to get a vaccine unless there are medical reasons. Besides that, the population needs to show a vaccine passport to work where there is human contact with others. If the person wishes to attend events and places where they could possibly transmit COVID-19, they need to have a COVID test in the previous 48 hours. The COVID tests used to be free but in the near future people will need to pay for a test. So if a person for without a real medical issue does to get the vaccine but wishes to mix and mingle with others, they will have to pay and get a COVID test every other day. I guess Israel will be one of the countries that will reach heard immunity in the very near future. In my humble opinion, we in the USA need to start thinking about each other and work for a common goal. Continue reading “Producer and Consumer”

Maximum Score of a Good Subarray

Good morning. Hope your day has started on the right note. If you follow this blog you have noticed that I recommend social distancing in order to reduce the chances of COVID-19 to spread in your local community. My wife and I wear a mask when we go shopping. As soon as we return to our vehicle we remove the mask and apply had sanitizer to our hands. We are planning to continue this behavior for the foreseeable future.

My wife has been to the Mall of America a couple times during the pandemic. She and a friend have not been shopping but walking. On each occasion my wife told me that the mall was almost empty with many stores closed. That is a shame. Continue reading “Maximum Score of a Good Subarray”

Merge K Sorted Arrays

Good morning! It is once again Saturday morning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today is March 13, 2021 and the sun is shining in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The forecast calls for the temperature to get up to 58F. For this time of the year it is welcomed. Tomorrow it will be a little cooler and daylight savings time starts at 02:00 AM when the clocks spring forward to 03:00 AM. Tomorrow we lose one hour.

A week or so ago I was talking with an engineer about merging a set of sorted arrays. I also generated the post Merge Sorted Array which probably motivated the exchange. If you take a look at the last post, the idea was to merge two sorted arrays. The obvious next step is to consider multiple sorted arrays of the same or different lengths. In that post we considered two approaches. In the first one we add all the elements from both arrays into a priority queue. We then populate the result array with the elements being removed from the priority queue. Continue reading “Merge K Sorted Arrays”

Merge Sorted Array

Good morning!  Hope your day has started on the right note. The high temperature in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul is forecasted to be about ten degrees less than yesterday. BTW, yesterday the temperature went up to 61F which is the highest this year so far. My wife and I were planning on grilling yesterday but one thing and the other and I ended having BBQ Chicken Teriyaki from Trader Joe’s. Tasty but I prefer my wife cooking (just making points).

It seems that COVID-19 vaccinations are starting to pick up Minnesota. We are behind other states but the expectations are high. We need to hit herd immunity as soon as possible. It seems that masks and social distancing will be a good idea for people with or without the vaccine for the near future until there is enough data to understand if we will need periodic vaccine boosters or not. Continue reading “Merge Sorted Array”

Largest Triple Products – Revisited

!!! UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE !!!

I received a comment indicating an issue with the largestValues() function. The issue has been corrected. The code has been updated. Thanks for noting the issue.

Good morning! It is 04:15 AM and it is a relatively warm day. Last evening before going to bed I decided to hopefully get up a little earlier than usual. I have a permanent alarm on my phone for 06:00 AM. I use it as a fail-safe in case I do not naturally wake up before. Today I wanted to get this post done and take a look at a test I left running overnight. My wife has a doctor’s appointment early today and it is a 45 minute drive from home. She has to fast so I will follow suit. We should be leaving home around 06:45 AM.

On a separate note, I visited the ProtonMail web site. As we all know there are companies that offer free email services. They have redefined what the word free means. The cost is quite heavy regarding your privacy. In the past couple weeks I have been reading about email services. My wife and I are contemplating on opening accounts on a service in the near future. When that happens, you will see a new email address at the bottom of the posts. Continue reading “Largest Triple Products – Revisited”

Clone Graph in Java

It is Friday morning and I am getting on Skype to chat with my best friend. We met when we were attending elementary school. We chat most Fridays but sometimes something comes up and we need to postpone for the following week. All friendships need care and time to maintain. The call occurs at 06:00 AM so hopefully I will have time to get this post done before the call.

The weekend is going to be the warmest of the year so far. We will be around 60F. Most people are going to use their grills or smokers. I believe we will join the group.

I received a message associated with a previous post. I will reply to it later today. The message suggests some improvements to my code. First of all I appreciate the message and suggestion. Please note that in general I want to get a solution up and running and accepted by the web site (e.g., HackerRank, LeetCode). If the solution is too slow, in general I try a second and in some occasions a third approach. I am not going to say that I have the best possible solution. I just want to make sure I describe my approach and you can see my thought process. Continue reading “Clone Graph in Java”

Union Find Java

It is Monday morning. Lots of work associated things for the day so this post will be direct to the point.

As I have previously mentioned, I am in the process of reading Algorithms in C Third Edition Parts 1 – 4 by Robert Sedgewick. I finished the first chapter and wanted to experiment with the content in the book. Yesterday I got VSCode on my machine to compile and execute. I thought I was ready to use the IDE in C. It seems that when I created a new project something did not work. I am currently using the MinGW compiler with VSCode. The issue might be associated with it. I decided that over the next weekend I will remove MinGW and will switch to the Microsoft C/C++ compiler. I do a considerable amount of work using Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 IDE. Have been using Visual Studio for a couple decades and I like it. VSCode is quite similar but yet different. Continue reading “Union Find Java”

Setting Up C in VSCode IDE

It is another Sunday morning in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The weather forecast indicated that we would be receiving about 3 inches of fresh snow. It seems that we will be getting about 0.1 inches of new accumulation. Given that today is February 28, in the next couple months we might still get winter storms bringing 6 or more inches each.

This past week I had a very nice and interesting conversation with a Principal Software Architect at one of the largest software companies in the world. It was very educational. I really enjoyed the conversation. One of the things that initially called my attention was when I asked the kind of things he does on a regular basis. He mentioned that he “provides guardrails” among other things. When he mentioned it I was not sure what he meant so I made a note to ask him later. At some point I had a chance to describe what I do and have done. One of the things I mentioned was sets of DLLs that with time I have created with the purpose to help developers use a set of tools to get some routine work done without having to redesign and test code use as a scaffold and be able to concentrate on the task at hand. Among the libraries that I have developed are some that deals with encryption, linked lists (I refer to them as queues), sockets, trees, etc. I was then clarified what “guardrails” refer to. It is the same concept in order help developers produce faster code with fewer bugs. It seems that we are performing some similar tasks. Continue reading “Setting Up C in VSCode IDE”