Apr
06
2009
A while back in high school (Menlo School to be precise), myself and some other members of The Neighborhood (the math & comp sci club), suggested we try acting out the various sorting algorithms with humans and videotaping it. Unfortunately, we never were able to make the necessary arrangements to actually carry out the project, [...]
Tags: algorithm, awesome, compsci, internet, menlo, sorting, video, youtube
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Mar
02
2009
My friend does email customer service for a computer company; I worked with him for while. When you work in customer service long enough, you see just how unreasonable people can get (and how little the average person knows about computers). In particular, both angry people and computer-illiterate people tend to use ALL CAPS in [...]
Tags: chat, funny, internet, law, meme, silver, support, tech
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Feb
01
2009
My friend recently started publishing a serialized short science fiction story on his group blog, and it’s terrific so far. It’s intriguingly titled “Cities of Bronze and Glass”. It’s about a “device” that seeks to find the mysterious “Creator”. In doing so, it buries itself only after making a backup of itself, which it names [...]
Tags: fiction, internet, promo, review, story
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