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Perl Weekly Challenge: Compression and Matchsticks

I’m not really feeling music recently. I’m not feeling much of anything, but I need to do the challenge. So here’s Perl Weekly Challenge 296. Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: Compression and Matchsticks

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Perl Weekly Challenge: No music, only numbers

I was able to work on task 1 on Monday, but I haven’t been able to focus since. Here’s three solutions for task 1 of Perl Weekly Challenge 294. Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: No music, only numbers

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Oh, oh, Domino!

Don’t wanna discuss itThink it’s time for a changeYou may get disgustedStart thinking that I’m strange I mean, I guess I am strange for always wanting to include music in the weekly challenge, but with a first challenge like this, how could I not link to Van Morrison’s Domino. There’s no need for argument in Perl Weekly Challenge 293. Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: Oh, oh, Domino!

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Perl Weekly Challenge: One Challenge, Twice Large

You didn’t know what the Weekly Challenge was / Until you met a hacker on a Github bus / I got there in the nick of time / Before he got his code across your git commit line…Yeah, yeah, it’s a stretch, but it’s an excuse to pull out Ian Hunter’s Once Bitten, Twice Shy (yes, Ian Hunter). So you got the rhythm, you got the speed, you got Perl Weekly Challenge 292. (sorry I’m only doing one…

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Perl Weekly Challenge: You Got to Know When to $HOLD Them

This week’s Perl Weekly Challenge task 2 is about poker hands, so the musical theme this week has to be Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler. So ante up and let’s deal out for Perl Weekly Challenge 291. Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: You Got to Know When to $HOLD Them

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Luhn

Not every time is the music that the Perl Weekly Challenge inspires going to be a Broadway show tune, a banger from classic rock, or even a baroque fugue. Sometimes, it’s going to be a marketing jingle: 🎶 Double your pleasure, double your fun, with double good, double good, Doublemint Gum! 🎶 See, it’s because “Luhn��� rhymes with fun. No? Fine, let’s chew on Perl Weekly Challenge 290 for a little…

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Tirhd Mumixam Prel Welkey Caelhlnge

When I think about the second task and how it jumbled words, my mind immediately went to Lewis Carroll, and that meant that tonight’s musical theme needed to be Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit. So let’s feed your head on Perl Weekly Challenge 289! Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: Tirhd Mumixam Prel Welkey Caelhlnge

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Perl Weekly Challenge: A Man, A Plan, A Canal... PANAMA!

So, when someone mentions palindromes, my mind immediately jumps to my favorite book on mathematics, algorithms, music, art, and philosophy: Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. This was the book that introduced me to the idea of a musical palindrome, a piece of music that sounds the same played forwards and backwards, and the author cites J.S. Bach’s Crab Canon as an example. So let’s…

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Strong but Valid

This week the peek into my brain comes via the first task, Strong Password. Immediately, I thought of David Wilcox’s, Strong Chemistry. Likening passwords to the emotional pull of an ex-lover is probably strange, but, hey, I never claimed to be normal. With the musical setting out of the way, let’s dive right into Perl Weekly Challenge 287. Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: Strong…

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Ch-ch-ch-changes!

This week the tasks are all about characters ch-ch-ch-changing, so of course I needed the musical theme to be David Bowie’s Changes. So let’s be quite aware as we’re going through Perl Weekly Challenge 282! Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: Ch-ch-ch-changes!

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Appear Twice, Count Once

There’s no relation to the problems for this week’s musical theme. Earlier this week, my wife and I watched the documentary Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, so you’re getting my favorite Gordon Lightfoot song… Canadian Railroad Trilogy. So now, while we’re listening to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, let’s construct some code as part of Perl Weekly Challenge…

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Word Reverse String Sort

I’m posting really late this week because this was a special week for my wife and I: 19 years ago this past Wednesday, I managed to get he alone during intermission of the production of Guys and Dolls we were in, and I asked her out on a date. I guess the date went well, because 19 years later we’re still together. To celebrate, we went into Manhattan and went to see two musicals in one day: a…

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Perl Weekly Challenge: Complete Maximum Day Frequency

So, I don’t want to repeat my music selection from Seize The Day. I feel like this task needs another “day”… another day… oh. Another Day by James Taylor. Well, with the music selection out of the way, let’s dive into Perl Weekly Challenge 276! Continue reading Perl Weekly Challenge: Complete Maximum Day Frequency