July 31, 2004
Hiring "Great Hackers"
The challenge for hiring great hackers, then, is holding their attention. If your interest is pure research, or if you happen to be moving in the same direction, they'll give you the benefit of that order-of-magnitude productivity advantage. If the great hacker gets distracted by some new shiny thing, you're in trouble.read... (527 words. Posted to nerd at 09:26 AM. Trackbacks: 4 Comments: 11)
July 30, 2004
Dive Into Python First Impressions
Unlike most computer books, it is far too light to be used as a weapon, and not thick enough to prop up a monitor effectively. Nevertheless, it is too thick to be used to prop up one leg of a wobbly table.read... (162 words. Posted to nerd at 01:40 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 5)
July 28, 2004
Fixed: IDEA + CVS + SSH "Valid request expected"
It turned out IDEA wasn't happy with my not including a username in my CVSROOT.read... (244 words. Posted to nerd at 10:58 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 2)
Nothing Interesting
It's a strange feeling to be a blogger with nothing interesting to say.read... (513 words. Posted to nerd at 12:07 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 1)
July 19, 2004
The Mysterious 20%
Not that I have even remotely enough money to buy one, of course, but...read... (53 words. Posted to nerd at 12:50 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 12)
July 17, 2004
Spiderman 2 Lost Scene
This scene was cut from the first draft of the Spiderman 2 script.read... (281 words. Posted to personal at 06:57 PM. Trackbacks: 1 Comments: 12)
July 15, 2004
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves.
I have a pretty laissez faire attitude to spirituality. At least, that's what I thought. Now I know that I have one exception, in the same way that Country is my exception to having no musical biases.read... (293 words. Posted to personal at 10:30 AM. Trackbacks: 1 Comments: 12)
July 06, 2004
House of Cards
If a single paragraph aside into crypto could jar me so much, how would I feel if I were an art or religious history nerd reading the novel? Would it be the literary equivalent of the way computers in movies always have big blinking text, a count-down to the end of the world, and "It's a UNIX system! I know this!"read... (867 words. Posted to personal at 04:52 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 12)
July 05, 2004
Plagiarism
It's "Beer and Titties Weekend" in Paso Roblesread... (194 words. Posted to personal at 07:40 AM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 0)
July 01, 2004
Looking Glass: the 5 Minute Impression
All in all, Looking Glass looks like a good start. It introduces some interesting ideas to the desktop UI, but I don't think I'd want to use it seriously in its current form. Which is fair enough, it's an experiment and not meant for that sort of use yet.read... (857 words. Posted to nerd at 05:07 PM. Trackbacks: 0 Comments: 4)