A garage sale for your mind (Page 26)

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Precedence Madness

Why does == have a higher precedence than &? It took me forever to figure out why: if (value1 == value2 & mask) wasn't producing the expected result. On a whim I forced the order of operations to: if (value1 == (value2 & mask)) and that's when I realized

Stairway to Nowhere

When I had access to dozens of flights of stairs I made a habit of lugging considerable weight up and down those stairs in the name of fitness. Or torture. Or something. Now that I'm without stairs I've found alternative means of self-inflicted abuse, but I&

Shoulder to Shoulder

My former employer may finally have to pay the price. There's this picture in the article of the CEO standing in their new offices. ("New" in the sense that they were still under construction when I left.) And the thing I noticed first? There's

Yosemite Valley Free Climbs

This picture has always amazed me. We were loitering in the ranger station / gift store after finishing up on Liberty Ridge when I first saw this book. It's more impressive seeing the print version up close. It brings to mind these thoughts of being a few thousand feet

The Economy of Hair Cuts

Subsequent to moving to Alpharetta, my previous barbershop (located on Fulton Street in Manhattan) became unacceptably inconvenient despite their great price and abundant pornographic magazines available for perusal while you waited. My new barbershop (despite not peddling porn) commands a $17 price tag, which is fully twice what I used

No More Chinese Food

13:00: ordered kung pao chicken 13:45: not feeling so great; decide to take a nap 15:45: wake up with giant "rock" in my stomach; curl up on the floor for the next five hours 21:00: throw up. twice. curl up on the floor for

iPad Fail

While in Seattle I subscribed to the 3G service for my iPad. It worked beautifully. And the moment the wheels of the plane touched down in Atlanta, I turned on the iPad. Minutes later, and then hours later, it still had no data service; no Edge and no 3G. AT&

Scrum Sucks: Standups

Scrum is a development process; and right there it has already screwed up without having actually done anything. But we'll get to that later. Today we're going to look at standups which are daily meetings of the development team. I don't even know where

Drunken Monkeys

When I'm done with this project I'm going to write an essay called "Drunken Monkeys", which'll be a diatribe against the notion of formalized project management and feature estimation. I've been searching for this paper I read forever ago about

Good Weekend

Hard cider, home made chocolate chip cookies, large screen tv, corner room in the Hyatt, beautiful downtown Seattle. It's a good weekend. Would have been better if I could have gone climbing. Oh well. -- I went to the hotel gym yesterday evening. As a tangent, what'

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