Nov
13
And in case you have trouble remembering: “There’s no ‘i’ in team, and there’s no ‘h’ in sync.”
Farktronix
Oct
31
“It actually makes a lot of sense to me that Apple would be in favor of equal rights for homosexuals. After all, I never wanted to have sex with a dude until I got my iPhone. Because my iPhone is a man and I want to have sex with it. I want to gay marry my iPhone. Of course, I’ll need to have the size of the headphone jack increased before we can consummate our bond. Just kidding. It’s already big enough.”
Colbert Destroys His iPhone to Fight Gay Marriage
Oct
21
“For Windows 7, management decided to alter the engineering structure of the Windows organization, especially in the WEX [Windows Experience] division where I work. Instead of being fairly hierarchical, Steven has 3 direct reports, each representing a particular discipline: Development, Test and Program Management. Under each of the discipline leads, there are 6 development/test/program management managers, one for each of the major groups in WEX. Those 2nd level managers in turn have a half a dozen or so leads, each one with between 5 and 15 direct reports. This reporting structure has been somewhat controversial, but so far IMHO it’s been remarkably successful.”
Engineering Windows 7 : Engineering 7: A view from the bottom
That’s a lot of people- if I did the math right, it’s about 1,000 people just in that division of Windows.
I understand that writing Windows is a huge undertaking, but when you have that many cooks in the kitchen things are going to move a lot slower.
Oct
1
Congrats, Spencer and Ambrosia!
Sep
23
T-Mobile announces their Android-based G1 phone
The excitement in the crowd is almost unbearable!
“If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.”
Definition of Recursion
Sep
11
“Felix http://bit.ly/1tWIab LOST his camp on burn night. Left the playa 2 days later. Today we packed up his tent, bike, wallet, camera & car”
One of the better Burning Man stories I’ve heard. That must have been one hell of a drug trip.
http://twitter.com/danger_ranger/statuses/917056761
You can read his thoughts on it on his twitter page
Aug
21
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On certain operating systems(3), GDB is able to save a snapshot of a program’s state, called a checkpoint, and come back to it later.
Returning to a checkpoint effectively undoes everything that has happened in the program since the checkpoint was saved. This includes changes in memory, registers, and even (within some limits) system state. Effectively, it is like going back in time to the moment when the checkpoint was saved.
Thus, if you’re stepping thru a program and you think you’re getting close to the point where things go wrong, you can save a checkpoint. Then, if you accidentally go too far and miss the critical statement, instead of having to restart your program from the beginning, you can just go back to the checkpoint and start again from there.
(3) Currently, only GNU/Linux
”I’m not sure how long this has been around, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it and it sounds pretty damn cool.
Aug
10
Quick Fact
The number of children in China who take piano lessons > the total number of US children
Cool stat, but I’m going to call [citation needed] on this one. Here are the numbers I could find:
“According to Music Trades magazine, published in Englewood, N.J., an estimated 40 million children in China take piano lessons…”
Children under the age of 18 in the United States in 2008 (projected): 74.1 million
Even if you just consider the children under the age of 12, you’re still looking at roughly 50 million children in the US.
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