The code I posted this morning is nothing I'd ever show to a prospective employer. It is sparsely commented, convoluted, and nearly impossible to expand. All I actually wrote of it last night was the part to prune down the source tree, so that the best-rated categories weren't being spammed out by a bunch of one-hit wonders while leaving good bands ( Read more... )

I've been dutifully putting song ratings into iTunes for years now, rating each song individually according to its merit. iTunes actually died a while ago and forced me to start the entire rating process over again, but I still hope that one day I will have a fully rated music library ( Read more... )

Say that you are buddies with a top computer scientist. He has been working for DARPA on an AI project. He succeeds! True AI! Over the period of a few months of shakedown trials and training of the new AI, you befriend it. This time ends when your buddy announces to DARPA project success, so they immediately install it into a robot chassis and ( Read more... )

Languages anthropomorphized. Too perfect.

I'm facing a programming problem I'm not sure quite how to approach ( Read more... )

Right. Based on half-memories of having a similar problem two years ago when I built the system, I correctly diagnosed and corrected the problem. It turns out that either the spare cable or the spare graphics port of my power supply are fatally broken. In order to minimize testing time, I changed both variables, and the system works again ( Read more... )

The good news: the shipment from newegg came in: 2gb of RAM, and a factory-overclocked geforce 8800 gtx. If the previous sentence is gibberish to you, it means that I got a fair amount of new system memory and a very nice new graphics card ( Read more... )

So, Portal. I just played it through in its entirety; it took slightly less than 90 minutes. On the other hand, this was my fourth playthrough since I got it for Christmas. Is it short? Very. Is it worth its price? Absolutely. This game has tremendous replayability; it's got the same sort of fun as do the games I end up playing ten and more years ( Read more... )

If you tried to use the links from my previous post and they didn't work, please try them again. I managed earlier to bork the dynamic dns configuration such that it was telling the world to look for me at 192.168.2.3. (For those people for whom that doesn't immediately explain the problem, 192.168.x.x are internal network addresses that are ( Read more... )

I was bored, so I decided to create a publicly-accessable SVN server. It should in theory at least be reasonably easy now for me to work on a project across several machines without having to deal with much of the hassle of keeping things updated. An empty server is kind of lonely, so I put on it most of the software projects I've worked on since ( Read more... )