March 2008
Starting new job tomorrow
Today was officially my last day at Accenture. I’ll be starting work at Hitwise as a developer tomorrow.
I’m pretty excited, they sound like a really cool company. They do all kinds of analysis on the web sites people visit, mostly for helping companies with marketing.
Can’t wait. wish me luck! :D
Muxtape →
This is so awesome.. a site to put together mp3 mixtapes!
Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the... →
Very insightful. A great analogy.
Idea * Judgment * Ability * Determination * Luck = $$$
“Environment: I am sitting in my living room.”
– jo stravinskas
Sudoku in 201 lines →
Got bored at work one afternoon.. can solve most medium difficulty sudoku puzzles.
Generator.x →
“Software and generative strategies in art and design”
“I’m afraid of losing my obscurity.
Genuineness only thrives in the dark....”
– Aldous Huxley
Revisiting The Facts and Fallacies of Software... →
libevent webserver in 40 lines of c →
I’ve been meaning to try out libevent.. looks fast!
Smoking Halfpipe →
Mike is one tough motherf’ker .. I hope he’s ok.
“Doing mustache-push-ups.”
– tomselleck
Unscientific →
Mythbusters is pretty cool.. I just finished watching them foil various security systems. Oh and they blew some shit up too. Awesome! :D
I think they do a pretty good job of performing experiments using somewhat scientific means.
Functional style binary tree
node = lambda {|data, l, r|
lambda {|op|
op == :data ? data :
op == :l ? l :
op == :r ? r :
nil }}
insert = lambda {|tree, data|
tree == nil ?
node[data, nil, nil] :
data < tree[:data] ?
# Insert in left
node[tree[:data],
insert[tree[:l], data],
tree[:r]] :
# Insert in right
node[tree[:data],
tree[:l],
insert[tree[:r],...
“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.”
– Andy Warhol
Alltop, all the top stories →
My NADD is gonna go crazy over this..
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Keep On Looking
Crying, while eating →
Exactly as it says.. hilarious!
via Mike Lee
Coding Horror: Choosing Your Own Adventure →
Congrats to Jeff Atwood on quitting his job!
I also used to love those choose your own adventure books.. I especially liked the Fighting Fantasy books with the green spine.
What is going on so far →
Pretty awesome weekend.. played guitar hero for the first time, awesome fun!
(Oh and congrats to Liz on her 100th post!)
Scalability of web apps →
A whole heap of presentations on scaling web apps. Awesome!
Cloudland Canyon - Krautwerk
TODO →
Looks like I’m not the only one. :P
The Case Against TODO →
Personally, I’m in favor of the TODO. Sometimes it’s good if you’re “in the zone” and don’t want to get distracted from the task at hand or train of thought.
Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine? →
Whoa!
seaside →
OO web framework in Squeak (smalltalk). I should really take a look at this.. I think this is what the Dabble DB guys use.
Games People Play →
Reg, insightful as ever. Talking about recruiting as a classification problem… classifying people like you would spam emails.. brilliant!
As a job seeker, I’m well aware of the games that need to be played… If only smart people could send secret messages through all the noise to good employers…
Hand Drawn Map Association →
I love hand drawn maps… I often draw these kinds of maps when I’m unfamiliar with an area I’m going to.
X-UA-Lemur-Compatible →
LOL.. hilarious!
The IDE Divide →
Where the rubber meets the rock →
Reg makes a great point.. best way to write better programs is to become a better programmer. Good tools will help, but they won’t take you all the way.
Awesome climbing video also!
You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?! →
Zed Shaw talks about what kind of jobs that Ruby is suited to.
February 2008
Ancient Languages: Perl →
Steve Yegge is my hero.
Some really great insights into Perl and language design. I really should have a go at writing a interpreter…
