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Why am I not surprised that the VueStar patent trolling made it to one of my favorite geek comic strips, User Friendly?IANAL, but the thing that worries me most is not that VueStar is gonna grab millions from Google - there’s no way they could successfully prosecute anything in the US - but what’s gonna ...
This is perhaps the only meaningful thing that I’ve read about the escape of JI leader Mas Selamat Kastari:[F]ollowing the mainstream media over the first 24 hours was frustrating an …
Here’s an interesting example of how a poorly implemented pseudorandom number generator cost a game show over $110,237 in 1984.See also this Wikipedia article.So remember, kiddies - always seed the RNG, even with something simple like RANDOMIZE TIMER.
Over my latest phone call home, my mum told me about the new ERP gantries that came up near our family home back in Singapore. She told me that yes, they made some mention on the news about new gantries going up on Bukit Timah Road and the ECP, but she made a very valid ...
Via Lancerlord:The folk behind Million Blog List are trying to figure out how long it’s gonna take to sign up 1,000,000 blogs at their wiki.I just added myself at #135. Lancerlord’s at #134.If you feel so compelled to join, go right ahead.
I haven’t had this much fun in a long time, and it certainly felt awesome to be following the news on Twitter, almost instantaneously. There were lots of fantastic, historic moments, which I have decided to commemorate with the Acidflask Aware Awards.Best momentsBest Rosa Parks tribute: NMP Siew Kum Hong, for having been asked by ...
I haven’t had this much fun in a long time, and it certainly felt awesome to be following the news on Twitter, almost instantaneously. There were lots of fantastic, historic moments, which I have decided to commemorate with the Acidflask AWARE Awards.Best momentsBest Rosa Parks tribute: NMP Siew Kum Hong, for having been asked by ...
In recent days, much has been said about the unfortunate Li Hongyi, son of PM Lee, whom just before disrupting for his studies at MIT this fall, decided to shoot an unhappy email to just about anyone who is Anyone in the SAF. There was apparently some unhappiness with a particular officer he worked with ...
freshbrainz.com reports that Doctor Andy Ho, Senior Writer at the Straits Times, has finally made a factual error so severe that it has prompted an angry and severe rebuttal from a wronged party.This, of course, is not the first time that Andy Ho’s vacuous writing has drawn flak from readers. Other bloggers have taking him ...
In response to Mr Wang’s posting, I have to add that I have my own horror story about the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.Somebody I knew died and I was involved with sorting up matters. At some point we found out that the ICA had recorded the wrong date on the death certificate issued to the ...
The fact is that most senior officials have no idea what they are talking about: discussion at high-level meetings is startlingly primitive. (For example, the distinction between nominal and real interest rates tends to be regarded as a complex and useless bit of academic nitpicking). Furthermore, many powerful people prefer to take advice from those ...
[Ed: This post is about real work, not just my regular mumblings.]I was delighted to find that doxygen, one of the world’s best code documentation tools, now supports Fortran 90.1 This now means that a very large body of scientific code out there can now be documented with the same awesome tools as many excellent ...
So apparently there’s this virus/meme going around the M$N pipes that tells you “you look like shit in this pic :S”.This is immediately followed by a link to the site msngallery dot gigacities dot net. If you click on it, it downloads a Windows or MSDOS executable that apparently spams everyone with a similar link.If ...
Telling these truths is your job. You have nothing else to tell us. But needless to say, you can’t tell them in a sentence or a paragraph; the truth doesn’t come out in bumper stickers. There may be a flickering moment of insight in a one-liner, in a sound bite, but everyday meat-and-potato truth is ...
Dear all,Some of you have been asking why this blog hasn’t been updated recently.The reason is because I am writing my dissertation. Unlike some people *cough Kevin cough* who still find time to update, I don’t that ability to write two divergent tomes at once.Next semester will be my last as a graduate student.If you’re ...
Big news in Singapore - the constitution’s changed again!What, you didn’t hear? Well, duh. No referendum, no public debates, just a quick note in the local press. No ginormous hassle like one would have in the United States in order to pass an amendment. No media circus. No arguments back and forth. Efficient, no?Sure, Singapore ...
Q: With the kite thing and the comic strip, you must have a Charles Schultz complex. What do you think about football and softball?A: Football and softball - those are those outdoor team sports things, right?- Randall Munroe, Q&A session
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