I just found out my best friend from graduate school died.

I found out by typing his name into google, and having google auto-complete the query with the word "obituary".

*weeps*

And I just found out that reddit.com is a top 10 site.

wtf

Who knew that usenet + votes could be a top website?

So, I changed my password on Facebook to some gibberish. That means that in order to log in again, I'll need to do some gymnastics. I'm sure I'll log in again, but for now it's been too much of a distraction to be considered productive ( Read more... )

You'd think that SF, being the center of technology, could produce competent websites. Not always ( Read more... )

The new lambda syntax makes the following a legal c++ expression:

[](){}();

c++11 is going to be fun.

Well, the site is still down, but I've created a github account and uploaded the installer there. I will also be open sourcing some of the core libraries over the next few weeks.

https://github.com/andrewprock/pokerstove

Playing around with sample code for the purposes of (1) cleaning up code (2) showing off my guru skills. Not sure that (1) is sufficiently compelling to introduce (2) into the codebase.

#include
#include
#include

using namespace std;

class delegate
{
public:
delegate()
{
m_dispatch["hola"] = &delegate::hello; ( Read more... )

I recently installed ubuntu (12.04 LTS) on my laptop.  Ubuntu uses the "select to paste, middle button to paste" throughout the desktop. Unfortunately, after years of training my mind only understands "right click to paste" semantics.  I attribute this to the fact that I've been using Windows and putty for something like a decade ( Read more... )

Looking to buy a place in San Mateo or Foster City you see a lot of strange things. Today I ran across what are almost certainly error or scams ( Read more... )

Watch as I dork around with my chips, button up my shirt, and practice my "poker face" in the background while Terrence Chan is interviewed in the foreground.

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