Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Sunday, August 24, 2014
ice bucket
Talia challenged Yofi and her mom; her mom challenged me.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=671430366283410
https://www.facebook.com/mitchwyle/posts/10152638658479269
Friday, May 2, 2014
Night Watch keeps getting better
James Mickens’ column in usenix magazine keeps getting better. This month’s riff on systems programmers is spot-on. Here is a representative excerpt:
I need mission-critical people; I need a person who can wear night-vision gogglesOr, this one:
and descend from a helicopter on ropes and do classified things to protect my freedom while country music plays in the background. A systems person can do that.
When it’s 3 A.M., and you’ve been debugging for 12 hours, and you encounter a virtual static friend protected volatile templated function pointer, you want to go into hibernation and awake as a werewolf and then find the people who wrote the C++ standard and bring ruin to the things that they love. The C++ STL, with its dyslexia-inducing syntax blizzard of colons and angle brackets, guarantees that if you try to declare any reasonable data structure, your first seven attempts will result in compiler errors of Wagnerian fierceness:It just keeps getting better. Read the whole thing.
Syntax error: unmatched thing in thing from std::nonstd::__
map<_Cyrillic, _$$$dollars>const basic_string< epic_
mystery,mongoose_traits < char>, __default_alloc_<casual_
Fridays = maybe>>
One time I tried to create a list<map<int>>, and my syntax errors caused the dead to walk among the living.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Day Trip to San Jose
I was in business meetings at eBay’s North (PayPal) campus today. Many people who saw me in the hall ways scheduled phone meetings since I was booked up and had not extra time. There is huge pent up demand for face meetings after my long absence.
When I arrived on campus, eBay’s Acme Labs was conducting octo-copter experiments in the parking lot. I hope we get FAA clearance to deliver items to our customers before the evil everything store does.
Great meetings; lots more work to do.
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Best news all week!
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/report-google-to-end-forced-g-integration-drastically-cut-division-resources
The evil search giant ESG stops its own slow suicide.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Brilliant New-Age Humbug Generator
Back in the 1990’s we had a fantastic ecommerce web site generator someone coded up in perl. It took random National Geographic pictures of bizarre primitive individuals for the executive team and random first-Internet bubble buzz word sentences for the mission, purpose, products, and services sub-pages. It randomly generated some fantastic content-free web sites that were often better than real ones. It was very inspirational. It was called athenanow.com but alas, it was short-lived and cannot be found in archive.org.
Now we have a Deepak Chopra new-age web site generator:
It is wonderful. And the author found another one for generating and tweeting smaller random New-Age BS here.
If anyone reading this knows where I can find the code or resurrected athenanow.com site, please contact me.
Tolerance and Coexistence
As a big fan of Ayan Hirsi Ali I was, of course, disappointed by the dogmatic intolerance of Brandeis University when they withdrew their invitation for her to speak on the topic of women’s rights. It was therefore a pleasant surprise for me to discover that the Wall St Journal has published excerpts of her talk.
Abridged Version of Remarks: “Here is what I would have said.”
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