Mediocrity Is Not A Virtue
Some ex-colleagues just discussed one of Joel’s latest on Software: One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to...
View ArticleJoost Peer-to-Peer WTF
I had a bit of a WTF moment earlier today regarding this: Swarm: Distributed Computation in the Cloud from Ian Clarke on Vimeo. You don’t have to watch it far. Just go to the “about me” bit, and you...
View ArticlePlayStation3 to drop Support for other Operating Systems
From the PlayStation Blog: The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), and will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available...
View ArticleBethesda vs. BioWare
Yesterday I said I might blog about balancing issues in Dragon Age: Origins. I think I’ll not only do that, but draw comparisons to other games as well. We1 have been playing DA:O for a while now, and...
View ArticleMatthias Rath: Steal This Chapter
I rarely get speechless these days. Maybe I’m getting a bit cynical. But this addendum to the book Bad Science has left me speechless. I urge you to read it.
View ArticleAnti-SPAM Measures
If you’re a sysop, the following is likely not exactly news to you. I blogged quite a while ago about how my SPAM volume varied. Recently, I’ve had cause to move my email server, and consequently...
View ArticleGawker Fail
A lot of fuss has been kicked up over the recent redesign of the Gawker websites. After readers protested, Gawker backpedalled a bit, but the changes they’ve now implemented are few and far between....
View ArticleSkype 5 Usability Fail
So, I bit the bullet and upgraded to Skype 5.0 from my now admittedly dated 2.8 Mac version today. I wish I hadn’t! Actually, I’m glad that I know people who haven’t, who sent me an old version again...
View ArticleUnprofessional Documentation
Apple has one glaring omission in its API documentation for developers: memory management is covered truly, abysmally badly, to the point that it’s just terribly unprofessional. Here’s an example I was...
View ArticleParents against URI Shortener Rape
It’s to be expected, I guess. When you try to generate short IDs from alphanumeric characters, you’ll inevitable form words, sooner or later. I just didn’t expect the word “rape” to turn up in a link....
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