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June 22, 2005
Google Pimpin
In an effort to help Dia regain her top spot, I found a picture of Dia shoe sniffing on Bob's website.
Or more appropriately, Bob's been keeping it hidden. Now google-bot activate!
[EDIT: corrected the URL because apparently I screwed that up]
Posted by Dan at 06:24 PM | Comments (0)
June 21, 2005
Questions
The idea sprung up about a year ago, while myself and a group of friends were on a series of interviews. After each interview, there would usually be a question that the interviewee had not heard of yet. This prompted the instant sharing among all the other friends and a discussion on the relative merits of the question as an interview question. Often a google search for these questions would result in a few pages worthy of data, but also a whole lot of noise that would need to be sorted through.
Inspiration struck when Brian and I agreed that there should be an online community resource for the specific area of interview questions. Then the idea died.
Todd re-sparked my interest in the project with his renewed search for a job. After having answered a few of the questions for him, and giving him a collection of prep questions I was motivated to actually set it up.
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the Interview Questions wiki. You are now free to share information regarding the specifics of the interview question.
PS - Chris had suggested a means to hiding the answers so that one could actually think about the answer before seeing it. It would be easy enough to add in a page specific to the answer, but I'd like to know if there is some fancy javascript means for doing this. I would think so...
Posted by Dan at 07:15 PM | Comments (0)
June 17, 2005
Feeds
Supposedly my feed wasn't working as a full feed again. I think I fixed it. Let me know if that's not true.
Posted by Dan at 04:38 PM | Comments (0)
Technology Confuses Me
It's a sad day when you find a computer science white paper in PDF format improperly generated. Take this wonderful paper written by Microsoft Research on a novel new idea for P2P networks. I'd like to know where page 2 went. You know the page with all the fun and important details.
Posted by Dan at 04:36 PM | Comments (0)
June 12, 2005
Gurgle Splatz
I got fed up this morning with my inability to update the main index page for this site, so I've re-installed all of MT. The new look will only last until I can fix the rest of it and be happy. Yip-ie. Enjoy the change.
Posted by Dan at 04:37 PM | Comments (0)
June 08, 2005
Holy Tire Gage Batman!
In case you missed the announcement and rumors, here is the news tidbit. Before anyone asks:
No I didn't have any idea.
Yes I'm upset that I wasn't able to attend.
The switch to Intel hardware doesn't bother me, nor does staying with PPC.
What I'd really really like to know is; How does Apple intend to design cases for the Pentium D?
Most of the early rumors established that Apple was very interested in the Pentium D, which is Intel's P4 with a dual core option. Having had the chance to play with one briefly, they're pretty fun CPUs, and there is some minor amount of geek pride when you can fake the OS into thinking you've got 4 CPUs to use. Anyhow, the point of the question is this, of all the heat sinks I've seen for the Pentium D, none would be considered small. In fact, most weigh about the same or more as the entire case and take up almost a 4"x6"x5" cube's worth of space. How can Apple plan anything that looks like an iMac around a CPU that needs a heat sink like that? And don't suggest the Pentium M, because it won't cut it. Honest.
Outside of that, I think this could be a good and beneficial move for Apple. The PowerPC architecture is still an outstanding piece of work, but there seem to be some issues when "keeping up with the joneses". The humor in this entire situation to me is that Microsoft's upcoming Xbox 360 is based upon the PowerPC chip. That leads to the questions of, was it the chip or the software that made things seem not so great?
Posted by Dan at 11:52 PM
June 05, 2005
Broken
The blog is broken. It seems that my upgrade from MT v2 to v3 didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped. I cannot update the templates used by the engine. Bah.
In other news, I won't be at the WWDC. The legal department got rather upset about a bunch of things with the whole deal. Basically it was don't go, or don't bother coming back. On top of that some more personal matters became immensely more important in that time.
Now we'll sit and see if Apple moves to an Intel chip or if it indeed does stick with PPC from home...
Posted by Dan at 08:27 PM