27 Mar
eBooks and Self-Publishing
Fascinating conversation/interview between authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath.
Archive for March, 2011
25 Mar
Comptuers Aren’t Fast Enough: Trading in Microseconds
Here: Although the picosecond thing is silly, the New York Stock Exchange now operates a co-location facility in which each trading platform gets a uniform 35 microsecond latency for the incoming trade data. Some systems can turn around that data and do a trade within 12 microseconds Computers aren’t fast enough for this. The latest [...]
14 Mar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#Reactors
Wow. If this is accurate (and seems to be corroborated elsewhere), things are getting progressively worse. I found the comments about the USS Ronald Reagan most surprising: A U.S. military spokesperson had said that low-level radiation was detected both by navy ships and their accompanying aircraft, forcing a change of course of the 7th fleet, [...]
13 Mar
“Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors”
Fascinating post about how nuclear reactors work, Japan’s current problems and why they won’t go BOOM breeding generations of X-Men and luring Godzilla ashore. Update: The article may be less informative than at first blush. After reading the (extensive) comments, the author may be a touch biased (pro-nuclear), so perhaps this isn’t the most accurate [...]
13 Mar
Japan’s Nuclear Problem
A synopsis of the problem at Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant. It’s from yesterday morning, but still one of the most informtive tidbits I’ve been able to find. Maybe I need to go watch Fox News again? It will take the media and Japan a while to circle around to what caused the explosion, so [...]
12 Mar
Pets
Kim told me about her conversation today with David, all of 8 years old, interested in getting a pet. Kim: You can have a fish. David: But…they just swim around in the bowl and do nothing. Kim: That’s right. David: But… Kim: That’s your choice. David: Well I don’t want that. Kim: That’s your choice [...]
10 Mar
C#
A comment in response to Miguel’s raving how C# is the one universal mobile programming language: Saying that C# is nice because it works on all OS’s is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
09 Mar
‘deprecated’ is wrong
Another brilliant and entertaining insight by Linus: > Wrong. __deprecated is not annoying enough. Wrong. The problem with __deprecated is that it is a F*CKING STUPID thing to have, and I’ve wanted to remove it so many times. It’s annoying as hell, but it’s annoying to the wrong people. It doesn’t annoy the people who [...]
