Category: Computer

I found the following article, Interface consistency at youngpup.net and thought that those of you working in interface design might find it useful.

As always in engineering, there are limits to what we know.  We’re used to this—it feels natural.  But to physicists, defining the border between what is known and what is unknown is irresistible.  They may fret over whether Schrödinger’s cat is alive, dead, or both; engineers will look at the airtight box, then at their…

If you don’t floss your teeth, they won’t necessarily rot away.  The vast majority of car trips do not include any metal bending, so why wear seat belts?  And why not smoke?  Not all smokers get cancer.  Or you could adopt Oscar London’s compromise, "If you smoke, why bother wearing a seat belt?"  And some…

I got an invitation to the IEEE Computer Society monthly meeting where the presentation topic will be: "Exploiting Incorrectly Speculated Memory Operations in a Concurrent Multithreaded Architecture (Plus a Few Thoughts on Simulation Methodology)".I’m sure it will be a stimulating topic, but I think that I might as well just put the gun in my…

Work on things that matterAffect everyone in the worldSolve problems with algorithms if possibleHire bright people and give them lots of freedomDon’t be afraid to try new thingsGoogle also requires that its engineers spend 20 percent of their time working on personal technology projects unrelated to their primary projects.from Chad Dickerson’s column "CTO Connection" from…

Did Micro$oft intentionally leak portions of it’s source code to the Windoze operating system to cripple the open source movement?  It seems like a distinct possibility when you read quotes like the following from eweek:Perhaps most at risk is the open-source community and particularly Linux, which are built on the trust among code contributors that…