For those of you who are watching the McCain-Obama debates tonight, you can check out Twitter’s election feed at http://election.twitter.com.
You’ll basically be watching Twitterers react to the debates in real time–pretty amazing, if you ask me. It’s like watching a national conversation unfurl right in front of your eyes. Try it out tonight!
This semester I’m taking IEOR 190A – Engineering Entrepreneurship. We are made up of a bunch of business types and engineering types and business-engineering types who come together to figure out how to start a business in the tech sphere.
Here’s how I’d explain this class: come up with a business plan for a company in [...]
I spent a good four hours today digging through Wordpress code, trying to get our Cal Christian Fellowship Web site back up.
The problem: the page seemed to freeze when loading page content. The request would time out, leaving a half-loaded page sans content. I dug into the theme at first, trying to track down which [...]
So for our CS188 (Artificial Intelligence) project, Capture-the-Flag Pac-Man, I’m responsible for writing a script that does some processing and analysis on a game board, simulating a Pac-Man agent (my other group members are responsible for far cooler things, like inference and heuristics, but humor me here).
I most definitely need at least several hours of [...]
I shook Joe Hewitt’s hand today (psst, he’s the guy who did tons of Mozilla stuff but most notably built Firebug). I stammered a lot. But that’s okay, because I shook Joe Hewitt’s hand.
“Fanboy” says the Facebook engineer behind me, under his breath.
Disclaimer: about 95% of you won’t get this. The other 5% should consider getting a life.
So we’re in CS lecture (this is with Prof. Papadmitrou), and one student in the front raises his hand and asks, “Isn’t the Traveling Salesman Problem not yet proven NP-complete?”
Papadmitrou turns around with a concerned expression on his face. “No, [...]
So Hsiu-fan and I had floated the idea of doing a hack for Yahoo! University Hack Day. We had even polled some of our friends about it, and the consensus seemed to be “We’ll see what we can do with the time we’re given.”
Well it turned out we didn’t have very much time. Today I [...]
What gives you more geek fuzzies than seeing an Evite competitor with an ASCII logo?
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Fun, simple, bare-bones, everything you need and nothing you don’t. We like that philosophy.
I restored a database by hand from the Rails production log and the console. We had forgotten to run a backup cronjob (and good thing we’re stealth! Otherwise folks would have our heads ) Shall never do dumb things like that (or run with scissors) again.
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Rule: Always give your users an out.
Check out Imeem’s modal window. No close button? No back button? What’s a trapped user to do?