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I once (c. 2010) built a terribly architected, horribly inefficent solution to create playlists which smoothly transition between extremely different artists.

Here's what it did when I asked it to go from Cradle of Filth to Regis Philbin. It took a long and winding road, but we got there!

I later tweaked some of the logic, and tried less extreme endpoints, and got slightly more reasonable results.

Results

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Pearl Jam to Lady Gaga

• Pearl Jam
• Nirvana
• Hole
• No Doubt
• Gwen Stefani
• Madonna
• Britney Spears
• Lady Gaga

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The following list of artists was determined to be a smooth transition from Cradle of Filth to Regis Philbin by a side project in April 2010. At the time, I noted,

!!! it took the long way around at one point...

• Cradle of Filth
• Dimmu Borgir
• Old Man's Child
• Hecate Enthroned
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Agathodaimon
• Cryptic Wintermoon

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{% capture canonical %}{% if page.canonical %}{{ page.canonical }}{% else %}{{ site.url }}{% if site.permalink contains '.html' %}{{ page.url }}{% else %}{{ page.url | remove:'index.html' }}{% endif %}{% endif %}{% endcapture %}

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desc "Begin a new draft in #{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}"
task :new_draft, :title do |t, args|
  title = args.title || get_stdin("Enter a title for the draft: ")
  raise "### You haven't set anything up yet. First run `rake install` to set up an Octopress theme." unless File.directory?(source_dir)
  mkdir_p "#{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}"
  filename = "#{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}/#{title.to_url}.#{new_post_ext}"
  if File.exist?(filename)
    abort("rake aborted!") if ask("#{filename} already exists. Do you want to overwrite?", ['y', 'n']) == 'n'
  end
  puts "Creating new draft: #{filename}"

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drafts_dir      = "_drafts"   # directory for blog draft files

desc "post drafts"
task :post_drafts do
  Dir.foreach("#{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}") do |item|
    itemDate = /(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})-.*.markdown/.match(item)
    next unless itemDate
    system "mv #{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}/#{item} #{source_dir}/#{posts_dir}" if Date.strptime(itemDate[1],'%Y-%m-%d') <= Date.today
  end
end

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desc "pull"
task :pull do
  system 'git pull bitbucket source'
  system 'cd _deploy && git pull origin master'
  system 'cd ..'
end

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// I described the thought processes (SOLID violations, which to fix, how and why)
// in my post at http://thedevstop.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/roy-osheroves-solid-katastring-calculator-redux/

// Note that I did this in LINQPad and so instead of NUnit tests, I dumped failures
// If I was to do this again, I'd either do it in VS with a test runner.
void Main()
{
    var parser = new IntsFromCommaSeparatedString();
    
    var none = parser.Parse("").ToArray();

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//FightCode can only understand your robot
//if its class is called Robot
var Robot = function(robot) {};

var target = null;
var intelAge = 0;

function log1(value, caption)
{

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// Assuming you have an HttpContext named httpContext
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(httpContext.Request.RequestContext, RouteTable.Routes);
var url = urlHelper.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName");

// Or you can get really explicit and include the scheme and host
url = urlHelper.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName", null, httpContext.Request.Url.Scheme, httpContext.Request.Url.Host);