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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 February 13th, 2004

Ryoan-ji

February 13th, 2004



Fifteen stones in five groups: Ryoan garden
Tour Ryoan-ji,
the Zen garden that made a few math
headlines about a year and a half ago.

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Joss -= 1;

February 13th, 2004



Joss Whedon receives another boot
in the gonads: Angel
will not be renewed.

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News: Eccentrics Edge Out Other Eccentrics

February 13th, 2004



Slashdot: Desktop use
of Linux overtaking desktop Mac OS in market share.

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Ruby Friday

February 13th, 2004



Having not filled my brain with enough crap, I’ve just picked up the Ruby manual (in Plucker format for Palm OS, from ruby-doc.org). Because, you know, being
a Python nut and a Scheme lover doesn’t make me
enough of a fringe element. It’s time to learn another
language!

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Hold that tiger—TUBA tiger

February 13th, 2004



Tom Chi has brassily put forth a new
four-axis assessment system for products: TUBA (Technology, Usability, Beauty, Advertising).

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Packrat Parsing

February 13th, 2004



CS.NYU: Rats!,
a “packrat” (memoizing) top-down parser for programming languages (in
linear time). [from λ/Ω]

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Meet the Prez, one more time

February 13th, 2004



OK, Brian
disagrees with my take on GWB’s appearance on “Meet the Press”.
Whether he actually said “imminent” or merely served up two
scoops of other words that mean imminent is, to me, not so
relevant. (What, does it suddenly depend on what my definition of “is”
is?) Anyway, before we drop the topic of the Russert/Bush
tête-à-tête,
I think the last word should be offered to Jon
Stewart (full segment clip in QuickTime).

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