March 06, 2006
My Google interview post (more than a year old now) got dugg earlier today.
h/t: dohtem, for pointing it out to me.
The digg, at ~1,200 diggs and counting thus far; the comments.
No associated blog entry today, although we did post about the ongoing Gang of Four/Chinese censorship idiocy earlier toda…
h/t: dohtem, for pointing it out to me.
The digg, at ~1,200 diggs and counting thus far; the comments.
No associated blog entry today, although we did post about the ongoing Gang of Four/Chinese censorship idiocy earlier toda…
February 15, 2006
Obvious jokes aside, it looks like the Sex Workers Outreach Project is serious about its call to boycott GTA. Curiously, they vehemently oppose censorship, but "since the video game Grand Theft Auto accrues points to players for the depiction of the rape and murder of prostitutes, SWOP-USA calls on…
February 15, 2006
Nick Anthis reports on how politics and science clash, and the fallout from when it does. Small wonder that the US (while still leading) is losing its edge, as Time magazine reports. Is injecting political decisions into science -- a realm historically dominated by a motivation for truth and a shun…
February 14, 2006
Roses say, "My love for you is fleeting and high-maintenance, and I require daily tending-to or I'll wilt". Chocolate says, "I melt in your mouth, yielding to even the weakest challenges, and what little backbone and fortitude I have is made out of delicious, creamy nougat." A card says, "Our relat…
February 13, 2006
There's nothing quite like repurposing contemporary pop-rock to make a mathematics-related YTMND. Push it to the limit!
February 13, 2006
SiCrane was named a Staff member on Saturday during our bi-weekly meeting. Elevation to this rank of the GDNet pantheon is a feat approximately equal in coolness to any of the following:
-- finding a whole roll of Pineapple Life-savers that you forgot about in a jacket pocket
-- discovering that your…
-- finding a whole roll of Pineapple Life-savers that you forgot about in a jacket pocket
-- discovering that your…
February 12, 2006
Apparently, 117 isn't enough for this guy, who's used grub (the LILO successor) to round out his boot-loading screen. I know Linux is cool and all, but does anyone reeeeally need ninety-plus distros of it? :)
February 10, 2006
Solutions posted to the quiz, along with a little philosophical discussion for good measure. How did you fare?
February 09, 2006
At the behest of the Many-Tentacled One, I've made a short C# quiz. I'm not as cruel as Washu, however, so we'll be breaking up the quiz into several individual mini-quiz entries rather than barraging you at once with an interrogative onslaught.
C# introduces a few new operators that aren't always i…
C# introduces a few new operators that aren't always i…
February 07, 2006
Solving tricky problems is a technique you need to master if you plan on designing any sort of complicated system. Many times such problems require a healthy dose of intuition and ingenuity. But if you can only get this experience by solving the problems to begin with, isn't it a bit of a catch-22?…
February 07, 2006
I was immediately captivated with the title music for Civ 4 -- the haunting and yet upbeat melody is very forceful and tribal. I set out to getting a copy of the lyrics, and you can see the fruits of my labor here (as well as download the music itself).
February 05, 2006
Adobe's COM API isn't the greatest system in the world to work with. Actually, to be frank, it's horrible. But with the application of a little C# and Adobe's interop assemblies, you can make pretty sweet lemonade out of some pretty crappy lemons.
January 12, 2006
(the entry)
Have an opinion about security? Raymond Chen sure does, and he's not happy when he has to fix compatibility issues caused by patches. But who's really at fault:
-- the client developer, for working with someone he didn't know would later be deemed a security hole?
-- the API publisher, for…
Have an opinion about security? Raymond Chen sure does, and he's not happy when he has to fix compatibility issues caused by patches. But who's really at fault:
-- the client developer, for working with someone he didn't know would later be deemed a security hole?
-- the API publisher, for…
January 11, 2006
Among the .NET set, Windows Forms comprise the fundamental building blocks for a snazzy application. As far as game development goes, they're excellent for prototyping or tools (and if you're using managed DirectX, you almost certainly paint to a Form surface). Graham Wihlidal uses them extensively…
January 10, 2006
We're open. Check out the goodness. Special thanks to everyone that volunteered beforehand to help me test it out. If I had to come up with a short summary of what kinds of things you'll see there, the answer is "thinking about interesting problems". Carrying out thought experiments. Of course ther…
January 09, 2006
Users of the BugMeNot site this morning were greeted with a barrage of GoDaddy advertisements rather than the warm, comforting glow of compulsory-registration bypassing. I hope this isn't a permanent hiccup, or some heads are going to roll. This will also probably upset Eric Hamiter, who was develo…
January 07, 2006
Howdy, fellow GDNet'ers. After some pushing and prodding and being stabbed with the occasional rhino-horn, I've been persuaded to set up a blog with some colleagues. The GDNet journal interface, while excellent, is just a tad too restrictive for my tastes, so we'll be using our own setup on private…
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