I just signed up for Tribe and LinkedIn. My initial impression is that I am very, very impressed. Both are amazingly slick applications. They both have a similar goal, but approach it entirely differently. From what I’ve seen so far, Tribe groups people by geographical areas and by “Tribes”. When I visited the site, it told me I was from Los Angeles (and it’s correct). And the site that I browse is in the losangeles.tribe.net subdomain. One major drawback: huge graphical advertisements.
Archive for April 5th, 2006
Walnut is so cool. “The area was once predominantly white. Upper-middle-class Asian immigrants have settled in Walnut, where they now form the majority of the population.” Continue reading ‘Demographics of Walnut, California’
“A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de St-Expurey, from folklore.org
The only time I have seen US CS majors gain immediate value is when they go abroad. There are plenty of companies in China, India, HK, Canada, Australia that would love to get their hands on top CS majors from the US. (slashdot comment)
That was fun. For our last physics lab, we played with liquid nitrogen to predict what the absolute zero of temperature is. I think we got -275 degreees Celsius. That’s less than 2 degrees off from the real value, I think. Since we were playing with liquid nitrogen, students were throwing all kinds of things in it. My lab partner, Sarah, dipped looped string in ice water and then submerged it in the liquid nitrogen. After taking it out, she pressed a highlighter against it, and it stuck. The entire contraption was dunked in the ice water and then back into the nitrogen several times. I have a photo, but I don’t know where my USB cable is to transfer it. So maybe later.
Whoa. It has been raining all morning. It’s 10:43 AM, and it suddently got really bright outside (looking out the window). I guess a cloud moved out of the way. The shadows that I see out of my window are really peculiar. Being in the last room at the very end of Marks Hall (on the Pardee tower end) means taht I can see the nook between Pardee and Marks. That’s where a brick wall and white stucco wall intersect, and the sun reflecting off those walls is very bright, but is contrasted by the other side of the building which is dark (and has ledges to shadow the windows).
I went through six pairs of socks yesterday because it was raining. Every time I stepped outside, my socks got wet, and every time I was indoors with wet socks, I changed them. I need to get some proper rain shoes.
You can’t see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications– which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week. Fascinating article about The Submarine.
… at Google or Yahoo. But who doesn’t? Hopefully they consider this idea:
The other important thing to consider is that most IT folk do their best work young and fresh out of college. They’re not “old hands”, they’re “young minds”. The real innovators are almost invariably people who haven’t learned yet that what they’re coding is impossible.
Instead of Mark Study tonight, we had to go and do something to love other people. We thought long and hard, and finally decided to go out and talk with people, and then pray for them. We assigned into random pairs, but there were no mixed gender pairs. I wonder what the chances of that happening are?
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