Does Android team with eccentric geeks? (comic)
Steve Hanov makes a living working on
Rhymebrain.com,
rapt.ink,
www.websequencediagrams.com,
and Zwibbler.com. He lives in
Waterloo, Canada.
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A Quick Measure of Sortedness
How do you measure the "sortedness" of a list? There are several ways. In the literature this measure is called the "distance to monotonicity" or the "measure of disorder" depending on who you read. Here, I propose another measure for sortedness.
Installing the Latest Debian on an Ancient Laptop
The challenge: Install Linux on a really old laptop. The catch: It has only 32 MB of RAM, no network ports, no CD-ROM, and the floppy drive makes creaking noises. Is it possible? Yes. Is it easy? No. Is is useful? Maybe...
Spoke.com scam
Rant: Why do companies think they can make money by posting false information about you on the Internet?Make a web page screenshot service
I'll take you step by step into how to make a service that takes screenshots of webpages and returns them as an image.Asking users for steps to reproduce bugs, and other dumb ideas
You can fix impossible bugs, if you really try.Zwibbler: A simple drawing program using Javascript and Canvas
Now it's a commercial product, but Zwibbler was once a fun side-project, and here's some details on its implementation.
Why you should go to the Business of Software Conference Next Year
Most people, having already paid $2000.00 of their hard earned money, and then having flown, driven, or otherwise travelled to Boston to attend a conference, and then having paid an additional $250/night plus $33/night parking and "tourism taxes" to the Seaport Hotel -- most people, after all this, are unlikely to say that it was a waste of time and they should have stayed home watching the remaining salvaged episodes of Doctor Who on Netflix.
In fact, I found it quite useful.