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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Archive for September 24th, 2002

i bet most of you here are considering getting a phd after your masters.

September 24th, 2002


i bet most of you here are considering getting a phd after your
masters. that’s great but i want all of you to reconsider. you’ll
basically be spending the best years of your lives in lab, with not much
social life, and little money. make sure you’re ready for it.

[16:17] <ctate> which, like many such optimisations, is polynomial if you’re lucky, factorial if you aren’t.

September 24th, 2002

[16:17] <ctate> which, like many such optimisations, is polynomial if
you’re lucky, factorial if you aren’t.

plus ça change, plus ç’est change

September 24th, 2002


plus ça change, plus ç’est changé

no one wants a fat and slow browser, caused by having to compile and run a Java Script based user interface at runtime.

September 24th, 2002

no
one wants a fat and slow browser, caused by having to compile and run a
Java Script based user interface at runtime.

I couldn’t have put it better myself.

New today:

September 24th, 2002

New today: Foam 1.1 for MacOS X.

Oh, and if you’re looking for the perfect command-line mp3 tag-and-filename-munger for Windows, what you want is Tag.

September 24th, 2002


Oh, and if you’re looking for the perfect command-line mp3
tag-and-filename-munger for Windows,
what you want is Tag.

FOAF, or Friend Of A Friend, is a schema for XML files describing interpersonal relationships.

September 24th, 2002

FOAF, or Friend Of A Friend, is a schema for XML files
describing interpersonal relationships
. (I should port my
connections section.)

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