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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

The Super Secret InputStream

According to the log file, some poor soul stumbled across my blog while searching for covert inputstream to string on Google. And sure enough ... second site. Sweet. Anyway, going out on a limb here, I think he was probably meaning convert. For the benefit of Google indexing, I'll

They're Lucky We Allow Them To Exist

I got this from mediamatters.org. It's a collection of wonderful bits of commentary regarding Canada. The first part is mostly Ann Coulter and is fairly amusing. The second part is this dude on CNN and it is entirely hysterical. Turn up the volume. Listen carefully. Share with

Recruiters

Every career has its annoyances and in the world of Tech and Computing that annoyance is the Recruiter. This sub-Human species performs keyword matching between Resumes and Job Descriptions with a level of inaccuracy that could only be simulated by an Artificial Intelligence vastly more sophisticated than anything which will

Impiety, n.

One of the funnier Devil's Dictionary definitions: "Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity" And you too can own this amazing tome, and help the rich get richer at the same time, by buying it here:

Blood Mountain (20051029)

"idiot computer science major" click to play "don't jump!" click to play The rest of the pictures can be found here.

The Mailbox Militia

I don't actually have any photographic evidence of the perp behind this continued mauling of my mailbox, but none of the evidence points away from this being an orchestrated attack by Union of Soccer Moms (Google link here). So covert is this clandestine organization, that not even Google

A Million Monkeys (Doing Geometry)

Hypothetically, let's say that you didn't much care for high school, begrudgingly (and briefly) attended college, slavedaway as a salariedminion for years, turned free-lance, and found yourself in the position of needing to migrate geometry data from MapInfoSpatialWare running on SQL Server to PostGIS running on

Happy Birthday, Universe!

Yet another revolution of this planet, around Sol, and back to its initial starting location - for those of us (realistically, it's probably not plural) who hold to the theory that the universe's existence, prior to this day some twenty-six years ago, was largely unnecessary. So,

From Pid to Path

With inspiration from ps.c ... given a pid, determine the full path to the corresponding executable. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <limits.h> #include <sys/sysctl.h> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) { if (argc != 2) { printf("usage:

My plant, part I, day 12

This plant (hereafter "Plant") represents the sum of all of the authorized, non-human life in this house (and consequently, one-third of all of the authorized life). There also exists (in this house) plenty of non-authorized, non-human life, but such things are much harder to photograph; I'll

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