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Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given

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  To: Daniel Pitts
From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
> On 8/2/12 1:20 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:48:20 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote, quoted or
>> indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>> save the request on disc and go to lunch.

I hardly ever go to lunch at all. Typically have a bite at the workplace...

>> Bertrand Russell "told" me about this years ago.  You have to get away
>> from your computer.

Away from the computer I couldn't have had a look at TreeMap's methods...

>> He suggested even a week of "not" thinking about it for a toughie.

Within a week of this strategy, surely one of the coworkers would have noticed 
my inactivity on the task and taken it over... maybe eventually asking me what 
I think I'm being paid for...   Nope, rather not let that happen ;-)

>> Of course Murphy's law says the most likely time for the answer to
>> come to you is one second after hitting submit.
Good description of what kind of happened, btw.

> If we're talking about Murphy, then by submit you mean "deploy the hack
> workaround fix to production after a month of QA".
> ;-)
;-)

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SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "Andreas Leitgeb" <andreas.leitgeb@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:11 +0000
  Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "Andreas Leitgeb" <andreas.leitgeb@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:11 +0000
    Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "markspace" <markspace@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:11 +0000
      Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given valu "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:12 +0000
        Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "Daniel Pitts" <daniel.pitts@1:261/38.remove-s5y-this> - 2012-08-02 19:12 +0000
          Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given "Andreas Leitgeb" <andreas.leitgeb@1:261/38.remove-yy0-this> - 2012-08-03 18:54 +0000

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