Daniel R.

I wasted, well maybe wasted is too strong of a word. I used way more time than I should have on Sunday playing with Pixel Bender trying to figure out how to make it sort values. In my trend to make Pixel Bender do stuff besides manipulate pixels I thought a fun mental exercise would be to implement a parallel sort. Now I've not come up with any good use for this yet, considered if this is the best performing parallel sort, yadda, yadda, but it works, which is what I really wanted to get out of this experiment.

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Tags: flex pixelbender sort

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Architecting a Shared Codebase from Browser and Desktop
By David Coletta

Maybe more hacking than Architecting. First time giving the talk so all feedback is welcome.

Goal: Build a browser application and an AIR application from a single shared codebase.

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Tags: air architecture flex

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With the election of Obama as the 44th president the transition process has begun. In continuing his use of new technology and grass root movements the new administration is looking for your ideas. Read about what Obama's plans are and contribute at Change.gov.

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As most regular readers of this blog know my housemates and I are having the house de-leaded. This unfortunately means temporarily vacating part of the house while it is worked on. Thankfully despite the age of Gilman Manor it had very little lead. One area that did have lead was near where NeoPhi lives. This of course necessitated moving NeoPhi. That went smoothly and should have only been seen as a short network blip and NeoPhi's and its UPS moved smoothly into another room. Alas the short blip turned into a two hour nightmare for me as once in its new home while trying to get something I forgot I was going to need I knocked NeoPhi's power cord out from the UPS.

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Many months ago I watched Randy Pausch's last lecture. Below are some of the quotes from the talk that I took away and just found under a pile of other stuff on my desk. Some of these he credits to other people, see the transcript for details.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals.

When you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up.

Have something to bring to the table, right, because that will make you more welcome.

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.

I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy.

Get a feedback loop and listen to it.

Tags: life quotes

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