Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Andreas Leitgeb" Subject: Re: SortedMap: getting value for largest key less or equal a given Message-ID: <501C1566.56034.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-Comment-To: Daniel Pitts Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer In-Reply-To: <501AC32E.55956.calajapr@time.synchro.net> References: <501AC32E.55956.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-FTN-AREA: COMP.LANG.JAVA.PROGRAMMER X-FTN-MSGID: 1:261/38 7d40ac0c X-FTN-REPLY: 1:261/38 d27c503a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98] Lines: 35 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:54:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.70.65 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1344020058 69.21.70.65 (Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:54:18 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:54:18 CDT Organization: tds.net X-Received-Bytes: 2369 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:17075 To: Daniel Pitts From: Andreas Leitgeb Daniel Pitts 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". > ;-) ;-) --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) --- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24