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In the early days of computing, computers were physical monsters, occupying large rooms or even whole buildings. Acess to them was closely guarded, you were lucky if you had access at all, let alone close-up and personal access. That was reserved for the system operators, the people tasked with the relatively boring…
I believe the key thing that has helped me to become successful and will continue to do so, is my ability to learn how to learn about a subject and self educate. When you take ownership for the learning process, you start putting knowledge into action.
I really enjoy reading other people’s code, it allows you see how others solve common problems, and sometimes even provide parables on what you shouldn’t do with yours. It also teaches the much needed skill of reading other people’s code. Now, ask yourself two questions: 1. how
First of all, Go seems like a great language. It has an excellent tutorial which I joyfully went through and found: Go is Fast. Concurrent by design. Typed (important for JIT and IDE’s) but n…
So today, I was buzzing around and searching for a `countries` table script that I could use in MySQL database. As you can imagine, it wouldn’t make any sense to add all world countries into …
One of the changes in Apple’s release of iOS6 last week was a surprising new ability to cache POST responses.
These koans have been independently translated into Chinese (archived) , thanks to Wanzhang Sheng, and into Spanish (archived) , thanks to Daniel Campoverde Carrión.
Some days, things just don't work out. Or don't work. Earlier I wanted to upgrade (their term, not mine) my iMac from Snow Leopard (10.6...
I discovered today that Ruby treats underscores a little bit differently when it comes to variable names.
September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups…
When I woke up, my RSS reader showed some "occupy thingiverse" things posted on Thingiverse. I'm still trying to figure out all that happen...
A story about Facebook went around twitter last night that provoked quite a reaction in privacy advocates like me: Facebook, it seems, is experimenting with getting people to ‘snitch’ o…
The only people who know what business Wall Street is in are the high frequency and automated traders. They know what business Wall Street is in better than everyone else. To traders, whether day traders or high frequency or somewhere in between, Wall Street has nothing to do with creating capital for businesses, its…
Back when the web was only a limited affair and the most exciting thing on it in the realm of imagery was the ‘coffee pot webcam’ I came up with a way to make a real live video stream that worked in a browser. A few months earlier I’d made a very basic version of this using ftp upload of images to a server and then a…
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
So, back in 1997 I installed my first copy of FreeBSD. I had to do some major research to get X Windows up and running, and the next computer I bought I very carefully selected a video card to make things easier. I was happy, I was able to use gcc, but getting online via
Parallelogram is a demo running on the Commodore One extender board, which contains an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and an SDRAM chip. The logic design was made from scratch, including a homebrew CPU, FM synth and blitter with pixel shader support. The demo won the wild compo at Revision 2012 .
Storm was open-sourced exactly one year ago today. It's been an action-packed year for Storm, to s...
If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it?
Over less than 6 months I've made more than $15k in revenue from Clean Ruby . It's an unfinished book and I've been working to polish it up and get new content out to my customers but I wanted to take a step back and review where I am.
