I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Ron Rivest (perhaps you remember him as the “R” in “RSA“? Or as the “R” in CLR
(except it’s now CLRS)?) is at it again, this time solving the problem of
micropayments. His solution: Peppercoin (great name).
The Onion gets better and better. Girlfriend
Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter At Page 20.
“And then there are all the footnotes. I always felt he overused those in his
valentines, too.”
While surfing TWOP,
I got a couple of nassssty adbanners from gorillanation.com that
tried to download random executables onto my Windows machine!
That’s so thoroughly reprehensible. I feel gross now.
From a /.
thread on Microsoft’s new 3° youth chat
environment [Newsweek]: “Anyone who’s ever written an IRC client should sit
back and ask themselves, ‘Why wasn’t I concerned with making IRC better
instead of just making yet another IRC client?'” [post]