Not too long after Richard M. Stallman’s non-technical presentation at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus, C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup will make an extremely technical presentation at University of Toronto’s Downtown campus. He’ll be talking about C++0x Support for Generic Programming.
The presentation will take place on Friday, July 20, 2007 from 6:30pm - 9:30pm at [...]
On Thursday, July 5th, Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman will be speaking at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga Campus. His topic will be Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks.
The talk is co-sponsored by U of T’s Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences and Knowledge Media Design Institute. It will be [...]
The article The Lightswitch That Might Explain a Lot About Java (which has received way more comments and stimulated more debate that I would’ve ever predicted) reminded me of a story that used to get forwarded back and forth among techie types. I thought I’d post it here…
The Engineer, the Computer Scientist and the Toaster
Once [...]
Over at the Tucows Blog, I’ve got a podcast in which I interview Adam Eisner, Product Manager for Domains, about his experiences at the recent TRAFFIC conference (”the premier conference for the domain industry”).
Free as in godawful design.
In case you hadn’t heard (or, in case you actually cared), the Free Software Foundation is releasing version 3 of the GPL today. As you might expect, today’s iPhone release is eclipsing GPL v3’s release, but the FSF are undeterred in their mission. In fact, they’re using this coincidence to remind [...]
The Ginger Ninja and I had a little time to kill before flying home from Connecticut last Sunday, so we headed over to Borders to get some cheap books.
Right now, thanks to a combination of:
A Canadian Dollar that’s relatively strong in comparison to the U.S. Dollar (according to xe.com, it’s 94.22 cents U.S. as of [...]
Ain’t it just my luck. As I was whipping up this graphic:
and this graphic:
I decided to do a little Googling and discovered that not only had I been beaten to the punch, I had also been beaten spectacularly, as this iPhone-based spoof of 2001 shows:
Ah well.
Anyhow, all this is preamble for the best advice I’ve [...]
MMORPGs Build Business Skills?
According to a study by IBM and Seriosity, playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games isn’t a waste of time — in fact, it can build valuable business skills:
A study released by IBM and collaboration software maker Seriosity found significant parallels between business leaders and MMPORG gamers.
MMPORG games, which include World of Warcraft, [...]
The new trailer for Rockstar’s upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV came out today. I really want this sucker for my birthday!
Click the picture to see the trailer.
I rather like the music for the trailer, but am no longer hip enough to identify it. Can anyone tell me what it is?
John Maeda at The Laws of Simplicity has an interesting photo of a lightswitch at Sun Labs:
Click the photo to see the original.
He writes:
I gave a talk at Sun Labs where I encountered a special light switch in one of their conference rooms. At first I thought it was some kind of silly “engineer” joke. [...]