Now that's service! (2004/01/30)
Long ago, there was a computer called the Amiga.
[read more...]Cygwin and the Little Tin God. (2003/12/29)
The 10 Commandments for C Programmers is a very important document. All programmers should read it.
[read more...]Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be tech writers. (2003/11/21)
Here’s the trick. It’s not hard to write about things you know. What’s hard is writing about things you don’t know. To do this, you have to learn things, quickly. You have to beat the self-evaluation problem. You have to know what you don’t know, so you can figure it out, so you will know it. You have to learn to recognize blind spots.
[read more...]They're not problems, they're tasks. (2003/11/10)
So, in an old version of IBM’s VisualAge Java development environment, there was a thing called a “Problem List”. This was, as the name suggests, a list of problems. When you typed in code, the list would be updated to reflect problems with the code. So, when you fixed the problems, the list got shorter.
[read more...]I cannot believe this. (2003/11/08)
It’s times like this when I wonder whether anyone with a soul is left in corporate America.
[read more...]Standardization (2003/10/22)
People wonder what standards committees are like.
[read more...]ToEE: Nice try. (2003/09/26)
So, I got Temple of Elemental Evil today. For the uninitiated, that’s a game for the PC. It’s based on an old D&D adventure titled, unsurprisingly, The Temple of Elemental Evil.
[read more...]Law enforcement to internet: FUCK YOU! (2003/09/23)
It’s time we were honest.
[read more...]Hard Drive Failures 'R Us (2003/09/21)
I think this is probably my fifth or sixth hard drive failure this year. And, so far, it looks like I’ll make it through without serious data loss. One of my drives is being fussy about writing blocks, but I can still read from it just fine, so I’m gonna migrate all the stuff to another machine right away. This is getting weird; I guess all that stuff about keeping good backups and keeping an eye out for disk error messages really works.
[read more...]Thanks Microsoft! (2003/09/18)
It’s another Microsoft Virus Day.
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