Knowing .NET

Holy crud, you’re supposed to know this stuff going in to a course on complexity theory?

A Course on Complexity Theory « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP.

Update: Ah, I read it wrong — when he said “What they should know,” he meant at the end of the course, not coming in. Too bad in a way, because I was thinking “If these are the prerequisites, the coursework must be fracking research-grade.”

• Star Trek uniform wetsuits. Give your least favorite “buddy” the red one: http://bit.ly/8k1bfy #
• Microsoft Research Paper describes algorithm for maximizing viral marketing: http://bit.ly/4JMjls #
• Microsoft released the Tablet PC in 2003 and everyone is going gah-gah over _prospect_ of Apple Tablet. #squandered_opportunity #
• ♫ I am going to make it through this year if it kills me. ♫ #
• BZ Media launching iPhoneDevCon Sep 2010 : http://www.iphonedevcon.com/ #
• +1 @Zeichick on Apple iTable/iSlate http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34034 Developers! Developers! Developers! #
• Whalers 1, Batboat 0 : http://bit.ly/5OlXAP #
• I have a friend at Apple who swears he knows NOTHING about a tablet. I’m like “Dude, just make up something.” “It has 8 cores.” FTW! #
• Ima let you finish, Amanda Palmer, but Johnny Cash did the best “Hurt” cover ever… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho #
• I’m going to guess that the new UI that involves a learning curve on the iSlate/iTablet involves pie-shaped menus. #
• Having one of those “can’t settle down into productivity” days. Half gone and Friday…Tempted to give up… #

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My latest column for SD Times discusses my experience programming an astronomy application in Silverlight 4.

• Using RAMDisk to Speed Build Times (And it’s not an article written in 1988!): http://bit.ly/4nClj0 #
• Writing a geotag-reading Twitter Silverlight app #
• Can everyone who follows me DM @mlbtraderumors and tell them that I should develop their iPhone app? I’m totally serious. I WANT THAT JOB. #
• Full moon 12/31 will be directly overhead at midnight, all across the world. #
• Swype appears to be same as SHARK / ShapeWriter — fastest text entry method on tablet I ever found — but I thought SHARK was patented? #
• So now the TSA is going to ban white powders and syringes? First, my Gatorade. Now, my coke and heroin. The terrorists have won. #
• Vanishing employment interactive map. Depressing http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/ #
• Pro tip: When releasing a new library / framework, say it was ‘rapidly embraced and became a de facto standard’ #
• 2 cruise ships in Kailua Kona Bay today. It’s been awhile. I know it’ll slow down again next week, but at least local biz gets a bump. #
• Trying to use Kinesis ergonomic keyboard. Very difficult to adjust; the shape is radical. Picture’s don’t do it justice. #
• Remembering 12/31/99: the Millennium Bug, my dot-com share-vesting schedule (“in 6 mos, you will have a sheaf of TP”), Dreamcast, parties… #
• #code2009 Ruby, C#, ActionScript, PHP, JavaScript #
• #10yearsago I was VP of a dot-com, paper millionaire, filing patents, expensing 25YO Macallan. Were it not for my friends, a total asshole. #
• Looking back at 09, the thing that jumps out is that I spent a LOT of time on things that I KNEW wouldn’t reward. I need to change that. #
• Tasmanian Devil species-threatening disease found to be “infectious cancer” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/science/01devil.html #
• Just saw a Hawaiian hoary bat in the last of the twilight. See you in 2010, Batty! #
• RT @secretGeek: There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. #
• Swam with dolphins, saw some spectacular whale breaches yesterday. Great recovery from crappy dog-barking wakeup @ 5:30am (thx neighbors!) #
• Shark upright vacuum cleaner broke 3rd time I used it. Piece o’ crap. Hope Target will give me my money back. #

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2009 was definitely a mixed bag for us, as was, I suppose, the “aughts.”In other words, life.

Out with the old:

in with the new!