ordered chaos: Archive

The code that allegedly broke the Zune →

marco: Via jstn. while (days > 365) { if (IsLeapYear(year)) { if (days > 366) { days -= 366; year += 1; } } else { days -= 365; year += 1; } } Out of curiosity, why was this being rewritten by Freescale or Microsoft at all? This has been a solved problem for a very long time. (Also, this is very ugly C style in many...

Jan 1st

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3 hours passed 2009

and we’re still kickin’!

Jan 1st

EVERY 30 gig Zune died last night →

marco: (via jeffbaum) This is hilarious. A software bug made every 30GB-model Zune crash last night at 2 AM, and they won’t reboot properly. edit: I’m still laughing about this a half-hour later. The various comments everywhere are hilarious. And they’re still selling! This shows marketing and politics beats the quality! They couldn’t even finish the year with dignity…

Jan 1st

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Dec 31st

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Darwin's dangerous idea: Top 10 evolution articles... →

150 years after Darwin proposed it, evolution by natural selection continues to be both a battleground and a hotbed of ideas.

Dec 30th

Predictions for the Cloud in 2009 →

What will 2009 bring in terms of the cloud computing landscape? Appistry offers a set of predictions on where cloud computing is going and what companies like Oracle, IBM, Amazon and others are likely to do.

Dec 30th

Dec 29th

“And with the economy collapsing, and the tech sector one of the few showing any...”

– Silvio, you’re not alone! :-) UK government wants to regulate the Inter Tubes (via mkg)

Dec 29th

Dec 28th

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Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom →

Rival, it never did. The launch of the search engine was nothing but a classic PR trainwreck, with much hype and little to show for. Cuil failed to deliver good enough results to drive anyone to change their search behavior, and quickly became the subject of backlash and criticism because of their poor performance and indexing methods that actually took websites down in the process.

Dec 28th

A Christmas Present for SEOs: 10 Tips to Pick the... →

Dec 27th

Dec 24th

Top Ruby Frameworks Rails and Merb Join Forces →

Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 23rd

Human Clock! →

Dec 23rd

If programming languages were religions... →

roamin: Aegisub C would be Judaism Java would be Fundamentalist Christianity PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity C++ would be Islam C# would be Mormonism Lisp would be Zen Buddhism Haskell would be Taoism Erlang would be Hinduism Perl would be Voodoo Lua would be Wicca Ruby would be Neo-Paganism Python would be Humanism COBOL would be Ancient Paganism APL...

Dec 23rd

“Whenever I go back and re-read an email that I wrote a long time ago, I usually...”

– Scott Simpson (via merlin)

Dec 23rd

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Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms -... →

travors: A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey’s bottoms. Then some people still accuse Darwin of being wrong!

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

Believe Me, It’s Torture →

Christopher Hitchens undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.

Dec 22nd

Netbook sales surge in economic downturn; where's... →

marco: I think this misses a few key points: Yes, netbook sales growth is high — primarily because this is their first year of noticeable growth. It’s easy to grow an impressive percentage from near-zero. And Apple’s making a lot more on each $1600 laptop with healthy margins than these netbook vendors make on their $400 econoboxes with maybe $50 margins. The article did briefly mention...

Dec 22nd

“The Future of Book Publishing (Maybe)”

– see title of blog The Urban Elitist (via fluffynotes) A good read

Dec 21st

How SaaS can impact the Middle East market →

Dec 20th