June 2008
12 posts
Building a Software Company: How to sell your... →
This is amazing stuff. I observed a lot of this during my short stint at my previous company. They build network intelligence systems for TV broadcast networks. Each unit (depending on the model) was roughly priced between $7k-$50k. What they were doing was not rocket science. They designed a board, slapped on a FPGA + couple of PPC processors. Then get Linux running on the board. Read through...
Jun 29th
Government contracts →
Prime: “I know but I need you to break it down. I have two columns here: material cost, and labor. What are those numbers?” Me: “We don’t break it down that way, we have a firm fixed price. $5 million for everything.” Prime: “You can’t do it that way on this contract. You have to break it down.”
Jun 29th
“When you’re in college, you have three and a half months of vacation,” said Ms....”
– Land a Job, Then What? Graduates Adjust to Life With No Going Back - NYTimes.com This article resonates quite a bit with me after having graduated recently and landing in my first real job ever.
Jun 21st
Jun 19th
PDF extension for FF3/OS X →
Jun 18th
joose-js - Google Code →
Declarative object-oriented programming in JS (via Reddit)
Jun 17th
Move all Windows to the Main Display | AppleScript →
Jun 17th
Steve Duenes -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New... →
As the story was breaking, Amanda Cox, our statistics maven, did a quick computer “scrape” of the Virginia Tech Web site for faculty and student telephone numbers. Then she wrote another script to narrow the list of numbers, so we could try calling people who had classes in the building. Two other graphics editors, Amy Schoenfeld and Haeyoun Park, started trying to reach students and...
Jun 14th
Git: Undo last commit & put changes back in...
git reset --soft HEAD^ Now try git status and your changes from previous commit should be placed back in the working tree and the last commit should be missing from git log
Jun 9th
Jane Hamsher: Forget What Clinton Did Wrong. What... →
How social networking tools played a major role in Obama’s fund raising initiatives.
Jun 9th
Popular approaches towards concurrency →
Shared memory access with locks Software Transactional Memory (STM) Futures & Promises Message passing concurrency
Jun 1st
RailsConf 08 talk on Git →
Everything you need to know about Git.
Jun 1st