Tons of things working on

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it’s been a while since the last post. After coming to new york, I have been very busy on my study, personal projects and (of course) playing around. studying in new york university is harsh, but not as hard as i think. I met nice people, hanged out with…

Interview Practice 02 - Stack with Minimum Function

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Question Define a stack structure with “min” function — a function to get the minimum value within the stack. The time complexity of min, push and pop functions must be O(1). Solution 結合鍊錶一起做。首先我做插入以下數字: 10, 7, 3, 3, 8, 5, 2, 6 0: 10 -> NULL (MIN=10, POS=…

Interview Practice 01 - Convert Binary Tree into Doubly Linked List

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Question Convert binary search tree into doubly linked list. It’s required not to create any new node, but only turning pointers. Solution The following shows the concept of this question. 8 / 6 0 -> 5 = 6 = 7 = 8 = 9 = 0 = 1 / / 5 7 9 1 First, since node…

External directory in Xampp (Apache)

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For both server and website developing, I usually use Xampp’s Apache to create a localhost server. However, I hate to put my important files in the htdocs inside Apache. Instead I would rather put the folder inside Documents, and make a link to htdocs. First, create a symbolic link…

How to Take a Screenshot on BlackBerry PlayBook

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To capture screen in BlackBerry PlayBook, just hold the volume Up and Down buttons together. After a camera shutter sound, a screen image in the format JPG will be saved in **Pictures **> **Camera **folder.…

InstaMusic Beta is Coming!

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Hi there, its been a long time that InstaMusic haven’t been updated. Sorry for that because I had been so busy in working on a game project in my company. Anyway, I am quitting for the sake of pursuing a master degree. And finally I have time to implement…

Take a Screenshot on Samsung Galaxy S2 after the Upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich

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Thank you for checking out this tutorial. Reading the discussions in this post, seems like there is quite a number of people having troubles to take screenshots with Galaxy S2. To clear any confusions, I summarized some information and added as followings. Hope you could make it too. Fingers crossed.…

InstaMusic Got 10,000 Downloads over Lunar New Year!

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Happy lunar new year to all. I am flattered. In less than a month since I put the InstaMusic to the Android Market on 27 Dec 2011, today it has already more than 10,000 downloads. To be honest, I never expected this. If you are uninitialized, InstaMusic is a…

Caffeine on Mac and Ubuntu

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Caffeine has been a very useful app to instantly disable or enable the screensaver on mac. At least for me, I am using multiple computers in office and all of them except the one I am using will usually get idle. Getting into screensaver, however, is bad sometimes especially I…

InstaMusic Version 1.0.1

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Version 1.0.1 Changelog Fixed music pausing bug Fixed bug to open now playing with no song Fixed bug such that music should stop after playing the last song Fixed minor bug that now playing screen will be opened when notification is clicked Fixed bug that the app crashed…