Extreme Sailing
The Extreme Sailing Series is racing in Boston this weekend. We went down to watch them yesterday. There were three types of boats racing. Courageous Sailing had a bunch of kids out there in...
Author: Mike Garrity
10000 Things
For graduation season, Christa Lopes posted a list of 10000 (binary) things that every CS major should have done before graduating. It starts with 0000 (buy your own domain name), and ends with 1111...
Time’s Money, Except When It’s Not
I spent many years working at a series of startups. One of the common features of many startups is a regular meeting to keep everyone up to date on the state of the company....
Top/Bottom C++
As someone who has spent an awful lot of time wrangling really large C++ codebases, I really enjoyed John D. Cook’s recent blog post Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?. I think...
Instant Mix
We’ve been using Google Music for a couple of weeks now. There’s a lot to like about it. We’ve got more than 50MB of music in it. The UI is responsive and easy to...
Foveon Sensors and Autochromes
You may have heard about Sigma’s newly released high-end camera called the SD1. If so, what you probably heard about was the price tag. A list price of $9,700 seems pretty high, but there’s...
Peter Diamond
Just in case you needed any more examples of how broken our government has become, Peter Diamond just withdrew his nomination to the Fed. Richard Shelby claimed he was blocking the nomination because Diamond...
Collatz Conjecture
Is this sequence familiar to you? 1, 2, 8, 3, 6, 9, 17, 4, 20, 7, 15, 10, 10, … It’s called A008908 in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. You probably encountered in...
It’s Cool ‘Cause It’s Nerdy
Today Yung Jake answers David O’Reilly, and shows us that datamoshing still has some legs. Oh, BTW, pretty much NSFW…
