http://thepanda.org It's a Panda's life, once you get past all the other stuff Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:31:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim Bray over at ongoing has a post up on megapixels. He has a decent (and from what I understand, correct) explanation of what is good and bad about racing towards higher pixel counts. I agree with his explanation, I disagree with his conclusion, and here I am treading on ... http://thepanda.org/2008/06/composition.html This is where I bitch about serialization in C++. If you do not understand what that previous statement was about, you might want to skip all of this entry. Really, skip this entry, it does not help you with much. Yes, I am home for the winter, I am leaving ... http://thepanda.org/2008/01/canned-responses.html There are a couple of entries I have been meaning to write, but have on hold for various reasons. We'll deal with those later. Since it is clear that I write something only when classics essays are bothering me, this entry is going to be updates about life. Clearly this needs ... http://thepanda.org/2007/12/updates-sort-of.html I got back from one of those trips out west yesterday. They are really quite bad, mostly because getting back makes one waste almost all of a day. Going west has always been much easier than coming back east, it really doesn't work out well. Besides someone chose to fight ... http://thepanda.org/2007/11/more-essays-need-writing.html Those fine folks out at Cupertino have another iteration of their operating system out. They tend to be really good at timing these things, and I find myself contributing to their coffers every year right around my birthday. So after being delayed for a weekend (they didn't ship copies to ... http://thepanda.org/2007/10/leopard-and-general-absence.html Funny man in Rome, fat man in France, strangely unrelated. I am writing an essay on one. The other is this weird childhood memory a book in the living room brings back. There's some sort of a British connection between both, but some connections are worthless. Besides I am pretty ... http://thepanda.org/2007/10/random-thoughts.html I keep meaning to post, but never really get around to doing it. This is somewhat of a general post, glossing over some of the stuff I have been meaning to post about. In reverse chronological order even. We had this startup talk today, and this thing was probably better ... http://thepanda.org/2007/10/somewhat-general-update.html I believed I had this beautiful set of numbers. Then reality struck and they weren't actually there. On one hand, having fake but nice numbers is bad, on the other hand, those numbers were really pretty. And now I sit around reading and thinking about Haskell and hating on C++. ... http://thepanda.org/2007/09/c-hating.html When I was at EA, me and Eddie once had a debate about why I thought Aston Martin's were cool. Now neither of us could really afford one of those, it was more of an academic debate, with him arguing that mass produced cars were more likely to be safer ... http://thepanda.org/2007/09/why-some-things-make-sense.html This semester as a part of TAing 167/9 we are making use of Mercurial for SCM. Itay liked Hg so much that he actually started using it for nearly everything on his computer and came up with a good reason for doing this. I am not organized enough to put ... http://thepanda.org/2007/09/mercurial-filesystems.html