What do we want?
Evidence-based policies!
When do we want them?
After peer review!
Monthly Archives: April 2017
The limits of PowerPoint…
I’m stunned.
Why being grumpy at work is good for you…
At last, someone understands me…
Star Wars Data Formats…
“A key plot point in Rogue One is that the file size is so large that they need to commandeer a giant antenna and knock out a planetary shield in order to upload the files. But for some reason they can send regular communications just fine without doing either of those things?
What on earth is being stored on that magnetic tape cassette? Is it 5000 .bmp images loaded into slides in Powerpoint with accompanying animations? Why is DEATH_STAR_final_final__FINAL.dwg.doc.gif.pdf so big?”
From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-disk-formats-of-star-wars-rogue-one-spoilers
“Windows is a carnival in an open field staffed by drunk orphans.”
My Windows Rumspringa: A Mac User Switches to Windows
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/windows-vs-macos-drunken-carnival-vs-sterile-art-gallery.html
via Instapaper
This Shanghai Factory Plans to Replace All of Its Human Workers…
Celebrating the journey…
Maybe I’d have been a nurse or an astronaut but this place is now home.
Tech archetypes…
Eric S. Raymond says you probably fit one of eight tech archetypes • The Register
It’s a bit like astrological signs for geeks.