Month: November 2010
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Это Сан Франциско, город в стиле диско
Pretty awesome day in the Bay Area today. The Russians summarised it so a couple of decades ago: We went to the computer history museum, I discovered that I have a bit of talent for Dance Dance Revolution and loved it (how did I manage to let that game intimidate me all this time and…
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum, where have you been all my life?
I’m currently reading Modern Operating Systems by Mr Tanenbaum in preparation for an important interview, and I have to stop to interject, what a fantastic book. I wish I had come across it earlier. It has very lucid and detailed explanations of many workings of computers that I have long wondered about but never had…
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Octave documentation
Yay, another patch of mine accepted into the Octave repository. Quite a trivial patch, but at least it was applied without hassle or modification. Maybe because it was only a documentation patch? I’ve got one other documentation patch in the works about coding standards for m-scripts distributed with Octave, which isn’t explicitly described anywhere. I…