While it may appear at this point that I haven’t posted for two days, very naughtily, I think you’ll find appearances are deceiving. I’m sure the missing posts will magically appear over the next day or two. They’re shifty like that. In current news, I put a nice big dint in my Powerbook last night.… Read more
1) Emailed two of my past employers to ask if I could use them as references on my paperwork to Apple. I could have been sneaky, as I’ve been in past, and just listed them without notifying them, but of course that can be awkward if they actually are contacted. Plus, it’s generally seen as… Read more
Raaaaaaaarrr! Fear the fearsome men of our household, who single-handledly almost killed a spider! It was a huuuuuuge two centimetres long if it was an inch! We are most certainly the bravest warriors in these here parts.
There’s an interesting article on ZDNet here, quoting some supposed big-wig security guy – Howard Schmidt – asserting that programmers should be held personally responsible for bugs in the code they write. It’s a very controversial topic, especially amongst the programmers themselves – let’s face it, we all know how much our code can suck,… Read more
1) Actually resumed construction of my thesis. Shane dropped by an old VCR for me to steal the case from, which was a really good deed. To make it even worse, he gave me a lift to uni. I really didn’t thank him enough, on all counts. I mean, superficially he “owed” me one, ’cause… Read more
Today was a hodgepodge, without any clear highlights. Which is ironic, given I felt I got quite a bit done today. I got my ARC assignment handed in, all nicely bound in it’s 60 pages or so, as well as the INS assignment et al. I confirmed that my uni is going to be annoying… Read more
It’s a pretty common scenario to have an array of some structs, where you frequently iterate through the array using only one field in the struct. This is a cache nightmare – memory is loaded into cache sequentially by prefetching, meaning you’re wasting all that bandwidth loading all the other fields of the struct that… Read more