I noticed a crack in the back of my iPhone, between the mute button and the metal bezel. It just appeared, not caused by a drop or anything. Looking online, this is happening to a lot of people. The reason why this is happening, I think, is that Apple bonded a plastic back to a [...]
The following is written tongue-in-cheek, but is nonetheless true.
I’ve written before on the failure of Linux on the desktop, and my feeling being that it is a hopeless to shoehorn an ancient server OS into something your average person might want to use to check e-mail (at least not without the resources of somebody like [...]
Just switched the blog software over to the new WordPress 2.7. The biggest change you’ll be able to see is the ability to have threaded comments, and hopefully faster performance.
Since this blog is anything but critical to anybody, I’ve also decided to just run the latest code in the current branch from now on. Every night, [...]
Among the myriad problems the 2.1 firmware was supposed to solve was poor 3G reception. How did Apple achieve this? Apparently by simply artificially displaying more bars, at least in part: In their release notes for the update, they list “improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display.” That’s just corporate speak for “we can’t [...]
I had plenty of time to write this, because I missed class today. The reason I missed class was that my iPhone’s alarm never went off.
When I woke up this morning, my first thought was “You know, I feel way too good for a guy who’s only gotten four hours of sleep.” I then clicked [...]
The going rate for a text message is now $0.20, up from $0.05 a year or so ago, a puzzling increase given that every underlying component of communications technology has become cheaper over that time. Given that a text message is billed both for sending and receiving (which should be criminal) this means that it [...]
NB: The recent release of the F# CTP breaks much of this code. I will update this page as soon as I get a chance, but please be aware that if you copy the code in as-is, it will not work.
I think the best way to appreciate how efficient F# is, especially for numerical analysis, [...]
