Thoughts on tech, the tech industry, and other random stuff
On Friday, oil prices fell to below $30, the lowest in 12 years. Wall Street journal obviously had an immediate explanation: turmoil in the Chinese market and an expected increase in Iranian crude production: Decade after decade, business press invariably have just the right explanation for market movements as long as they get to sleep
This was originally posted as an answer on Quora to the question How did Shakuntala Devi mentally calculate the 23rd root of a 201-digit number correctly? . Devi was a very talented mental calculator, but by no means the extreme prodigy that she has been made out to be in the media, and she certainly couldn t
Yes indeed, as WSJ reported today ( Snapchat Poaches Google Veteran in Engineering Push ), I have recently joined Snapchat. This is a great place. Hope to get some bandwidth to share thoughts on new generation of communication. For now, I want to link to two items that might interest anybody interested in why I joined: Evan
A youngster corrected me the other day when I said Merry Christmas . He looked at me firmly and replied, Happy Holidays . (Actually, this happened a year ago, but some blog postings take a while to finish.) Most years here in the US there s a public squirming about how to manage both the culturally inclusive nature
Just a quick status update. A few months ago I started talking to Google about their cloud strategies. Today I m starting week five as a Googler, working on just that. Can t say much just yet, but it s pretty cool. Stay tuned.
Today I needed access to some old files. I had an old tar file from around 1998 that held several gigabytes of files. It came from large Unix servers, and for many years I had no easy access to it s contents Windows would cringe at trying to access the large number of files (43502
(Update: left in September.) It s seriously slanting towards dated news, but we rolled out the press release today that I have joined Finnish startup Conformiq as VP of Marketing. The official link to the announcement is here. Conformiq has productized technology in the Model Based Testing (MBT) space, and calls their (our) approach Conformiq Automated
Well, it s official now: Wind River acquires Virtutech, the company I founded in 1998 together with a brilliant team of four co-researchers from SICS Bengt Werner, Andreas Moestedt, Magnus Christensson, and Fredrik Larsson. Simics will live on, but that wraps up Virtutech, and thus the end of an almost 19 year long project. So,
The original Roman mile was 1000 paces (milia passuum), or 5000 feet. The modern mile was defined as 5280 feet under Queen Elizabeth at the end of the 16th century in order to reconcile multiple discordant measurement systems already in wide use. In particular, it was convenient to make it an even multiple of the
Some 4000 Google I/O attendees gave a standing ovation at the end of this morning s keynote pre-launch of Google Wave . Google I/O attracts a reasonably savvy crowd, and this was not a Reality Distortion effect. What Google announced this morning is significant. It is the first candidate killer application for the Fourth Wave of Computing.