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A basic usability test on ten phones
B. is an old friend of mine who owns an old Nokia. And when I say old, I mean really old. It was released somewhere in 2000 or so (the Nokia, not the friendship). It’s not a smartphone, to put it mildly, and B. does not use the mobile Web.
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Doing It Wrong
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It’s time to stop the madness.
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A geek meets the Ikea Lillabo Train Set
As further proof of my unsuitability to be a child minder (see previous post ) I found myself playing with an Ikea LILLABO 20-piece basic se...
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The Python GIL Visualized
In preparation for my upcoming PyCON'2010 talk on "Understanding the Python GIL", I've been working on a variety of new material--including some graphical visualization of the GIL behavior described in my earlier talk . I'm still experimenting, but check it out.
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The software fixed the hardware
software solutions to hardware problems, and outbreaks of the future. © 2007 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
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Bup 0.01: It backs things up
I just spent a few days of my Christmas vacation writing a new program, bup. bup is a program that backs things up. It's short for "backup...
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A review of probability theory
In preparation for my upcoming course on random matrices, I am briefly reviewing some relevant foundational aspects of probability theory, as well as setting up basic probabilistic notation that we…
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Paul Buchheit: Tablet thoughts
I don't know anything about Apple's tablet, and I generally don't pay much attention to the speculation about their unannounced products. Ho...