The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) 2017 was held on Saturday, 25th of March, in sunny University College Cork. I was competing with two of my housemates, Cian Ruane, and Ross O'Sullivan. Myself, Cian Ruane, and Stefan Kennedy came 2nd place at the IrlCPC last
Continue ReadingA warm breeze was blowing the day before yesterday. The sun shone with a bit of hope, and young cheerful students poured out of their dark corners and started playing frisbee on the DCU green and pretending to have fun. Summer must have arrived. My
Continue ReadingLast weekend I went to Galway with Redbrick, for the first intersocs hackathon. It was good fun! Galway was very nice. I heard from the waiter in "Rockin' Joes" that there are 3 series of both Black Sails and The 100, whereas I'd only seen
Continue ReadingLast Thursday was the Google Hashcode, and team cat /dev/urandom >> solution.cpp was at our usual business again. It was a really, really nice competition, and we did okay! The task was to write a tool to optimise the routes of delivery
Continue ReadingChristmas is over, the wintry skies are still dark, but a new semester has started. Yay! Last weekend I was in Brussels for fosdem 2016, with Redbrick. It was a really incredible weekend. Delirium Nocturnum was great (Tremens less so imho), absinthe led to great
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