July 2010
2 posts
The tale of a family of inertial navigators →
Who writes about the space shuttle,... →
March 2010
2 posts
“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: caching, naming, and off-by-1...”
February 2010
6 posts
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have...”
– Roger Ebert
No doubt due to insurance issues (plus, like, the... →
A conversation I have every month or so
dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever...
January 2010
21 posts
Apple's A4 chip →
The real news here is ARM is marching against Intel from the smallest devices on up…
Apple’s chip is basically a standard ARM CPU (the Cortex-A9), an ARM GPU and a memory controller. Not much real innovation just another case of let’s take the best of everything available and package it better than anyone else (and charge more—rightly so).
I find the “Apple controls the WHOLE...
Tuper Tario Tros = Mario + Tetris →
“When you can’t tell your friends from you enemies, it’s time to go.”
– http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830515/quotes
December 2009
48 posts
WatchMr. Vyacheslav Molotov would be proud.
What happened to October 1852? (and good god,... →
“Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if...”
– Paul Buchheit
“Humor is a delivery mechanism for truth”
– Biz Stone