Posts Tagged ‘tech’
If you’ve watched TV, or gone on YouTube, for that matter, any time recently, you’ve no doubt seen at least one iPhone ad, and possibly even a T-Mobile MyTouch 3G (Android) one. Well, if not, they’re below for your viewing pleasure (um, maybe not). The goal of this article is to analyze two of these [...]
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Tags: android, applications, google, iphone, iphone 3g, iphone ad, iphone vs android, mobile, mobile OS, mobile platform, music, mytouch 3g, phone, phone ad, pictures, strategy letter, tech, telephony, tmobile, tmobile ad, usability
On Tuesday, the awesome guys at Stack Overflow finally gave us addicted users a chance to receive some trilogy stickers! A few weeks ago, they received their order of 40,000 StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser, and How-To Geek stickers, and now, if users send in a self-addressed stamped envelope, they will find some sitting in their mailbox [...]
Filed under: Design, geek, Technology, Web | 1 Comment
Tags: admin, awesome, community, computing, it, jeff atwood, joel spolsky, open-source, Programming, sase, self-addressed stamped envelope, server administration, serverfault, serverfault stickers, snail mail, stackoverflow, stackoverflow stickers, stackoverflow trilogy, stackoverflow trilogy stickers, stickers, superuser, superuser stickers, tech, trilogy stickers, vinyl
Tomorrow, the 4th of September, marks the 11th year passed since the founding of the Google corporation, one of the most influential technology companies in the world. In 1998 on this very day, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in Menlo Park, California, to promote the search engine they had developed as a research project. Here’s to many more years [...]
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Tags: 11th google birthday, birthday, google, google birthday, google company birthday, tech
Numerous friends have asked me about this whole Twitpocalypse thing, as they just don’t get it. “What’s this whole deal with signed integers?”, they ask. Well I’m here to clear that up, as I do programming, and in programming, if you don’t know such basics of computer science, you’re doomed. What the predicters of the [...]
Filed under: computer science, Feature, Programming, Technology, Twitter | Leave a Comment
Tags: 32bit, compsci, compsci bugs, compsci error, computer error, computer science, data types, error, int32, int64, integer, long, overflow, Programming, programming bugs, programming error, signed integer, stack overflow, tech, Technology, twitpocalypse, y2k, year2038
Apple recently released new versions of the iPhone and iTunes SDK. The main purpose of these updates is not to add or improve new features, but to remove some major holes in their software. Another beta of the iPhone 3.1 SDK was part of the released items, and it held more disappointment for users than [...]
Filed under: Apple, Crisis, geek, Mobile devices, Technology | 4 Comments
Tags: apple, apple palm, at&t, breaking, iphone, itunes, palm pre, tech, tethering
This year, I attended the 2-day Microsoft Faculty Summit 2009 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. This was my first time ever visiting such an awesome company as Microsoft, and I was very amazed and delighted. I was able to speak to one of the programmers at Microsoft, and I was very intrigued. I [...]
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Tags: facsum, facsum2009, faculty summit, faculty summit 2009, geek, microsoft, microsoft conference, microsoft faculty summit, microsoft research, personal, seattle, tech, tech conference, tech event, Technology, technology conference, trip, twitter
Yesterday, I arrived in Seattle for this year’s Microsoft Faculty Summit, my relative accompanying me. Of course, I tweeted (hashtag #facsum) about the sessions I attended today, and took pictures of said sessions and of the Microsoft campus. You can click here to view the gallery. Enjoy! Tomorrow, I shall summarize the main developments exposed [...]
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Tags: 10th anniversary, day1, facsum, facsum2009, faculty summit, faculty summit 2009, microsoft, microsoft conference, microsoft faculty summit, seattle, tech, tech event, technology conference
