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 university bookstores in time for the release, and university bookstore's were selling it for cheaper than the Apple Store), I finally have Leopard. Which is good, I guess. I bought this OS in part because of the promise DTrace held, and in part because of Time Machine. I am currently not doing anything requiring DTrace, and I haven't yet taken the time to teach myself enough about it, and Time Machine requires that I reformat my external, something I am not quite prepared to do yet.
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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 sure Roman virtues from the [...]
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 attended than any recent CS [...]
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++. Who would have known that [...]
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 and have better designed engines. [...]