Took a spin up Skyline today (so my One True Ex could “look at trees”), and chanced to find Los Altos Rod & Gun Club. Guess I know what we’re doing next Sunday. (Later: Still haven’t.)
I wonder whether Hollywood digital visual effects use standard 24-bit color or something fancier.
Why aren’t more servers this clever?
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one-third as forgetful as before
Help! I bought more memory for my computer, but the BIOS seems unhappy with it. Is there a switch somewhere on the motherboard (Asus K7M) that I have to flip?
Later: So I called the shop that built it. (Oddly, the office number on the invoice is bad, but a toll-free number for the workshop, which I jotted two years ago and iirc never used before, is still good.) A voice said no, there’s no switch, if your BIOS is unhappy the card is no good.
Rats.
Later still: I traded it in for another card. My box is happy now.
Since I last looked, Richard Bennett has taken down the insulting “I don’t do Netscape 4” page. Good boy.
(I primarily use 4.79 because 6.2.2 is much less graceful in handling mail and bookmarks.)
Joel [Spolsky] on Software – The Law of Leaky Abstractions
means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time.” Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting. So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.
And all this means that paradoxically, even as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient programmer is getting harder and harder.
In Praise of Evolvable Systems: Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future. (Thanks to Joel Levin for the link)