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The only members of the crew who didn t come down with dysentery were Huston and Bogart, because they were drinking whisky rather than the water, which turned out to be the source of the infection. The African Queen On a related note, I ll be headed to Africa for a month, albeit the other side [ ]
Daniel Jalkut on Asking for Help
All the bugs in our group were difficult. One day I was assigned a particularly vexing one. I had shown a knack for tracking down tricky issues, but this one stymied me. I hammered away at the bug but I couldn’t figure out the cause. I couldn’t even think of where to go next. I [ ]
Ross Perot and Scott McNealy
Before they flew east, Alvy and Ed were apprehensive. They had heard strange things about Ross Perot from a credible source, Scott McNealy, the chief executive of Sun Microsystems, a rising young star in Silicon Valley. Scott talked about how he and Ross were supposed to meet at Chicago s O Hare Airport to shake hands on [ ]
Kellan Elliott-McCrea on Flickr and Data
With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system. Every photo, in every size, plus the completely untouched original. (which we store for you indefinitely, whether or not you pay us) Every tag, every comment, every note, every people tag, every fave. Also your stats, [ ]
The Best Spidering Project Ever
I keep losing the link to the oddly-named Drunk Men Work Here project. This is, frankly, the best (which in my quirky view is some combination of unique, creative, awesome, and data-intensive) analysis of web spiders I ve ever seen. For anyone interested in how to induce the internals of spiders, this is required reading.
Office Hours
Tonight I held my first office hours in Palo Alto at Coupa Café. Office hours are an idea I got from my good friend Buzz Andersen, who held them on a semi-regular basis at The Alembic in San Francisco, and which I endeavored to attend whenever possible. The basic idea of office hours is that [ ]
Adding Default Descriptions to Trac Tickets
I ve been using Trac for the new projects I m working on, and am liking it so far. I have, however, done a bit of customization to make it fit my needs a bit better. One thing that took awhile was figuring out how to change the default ticket description. I like having some structure to [ ]
On Regret Minimization, Leaving Apple, and Playing Pinball
It s been a month now since I left Apple to start a company. I d been working on Time Machine (an interesting and challenging project) as a software engineer, with a fantastic group of people, and was in a situation that was really pretty great. So, why did I decide to leave and go do my [ ]
Happy Leopard Day!
In January, I started working as a software engineer on Leopard. I was lucky enough to get to work on two of the top ten features for this release of OS X: For the past few months I worked seven days a week pretty much non-stop on making the back end of Time Machine faster [ ]