Yesterday, I was working on a website and had two versions of the same file. When I was ready to put the new version up for testing, I deleted the old one and put in the new one. I refreshed my browser window. No change! I pressed Ctrl+F5. I was still seeing the old version!…Continue Reading…
Computer science at USC is dying, and half of it is ITS’s fault. ITS is Information Technology Services here at the University of Southern California. I don’t know their history, but what I do know is: They are one of the most crucial organizations at USC. They manage USC Wireless, the on-campus 802.11g wireless network….Continue Reading…
Someone somehow modified some downloads of WordPress 2.1.1, so Matt announced that they’re calling the entire version dangerous. I used to wonder why the 2.0 branch is still maintained at all, considering that 2.1 is out. Perhaps this is part of the reason. The story behind this exploit is rather interesting. This morning we received…Continue Reading…
One of the greatest tragedies of computer science is that the names of good programming languages stink.
I was reading about Jacob and Joseph, which brought me to reading about Jews, which brought me to Albert Einstein, which brought me to the subject of Patent Offices, which brought me to the US Patent and Trademark Office, which brought me to looking at what jobs they offer. Wouldn’t it be cool to work…Continue Reading…
More commentary on the article mentioned previously. One upshot of which is that the companies of the future may be surprisingly small. I sometimes daydream about how big you could grow a company (in revenues) without ever having more than ten people. What would happen if you outsourced everything except product development? If you tried…Continue Reading…