October 2009
7 posts
Twitter Lists: Ready for Abuse
me: oh man, twitter lists.
me: http://twitter.com/dsokol/lames
James: doesnt work for me
me: awww
me: man
me: get on that
James: IM trying
me: (ps it's a list of just you, named 'lames')
me: lolololol
James: figured that
me: man
me: that's gonna be great
me: cause you can arbitarily name lists and add people
me: i could have a list named 'Dick Lickers' and BAM
me: everybody goes in
Cooking
Upsides of Cooking Sausage & Maceroni and Cheese with Same Lid:
Awesomness
Maceroni Tastes like Sausage
Feeling good because you’re saving water and resources like those goddamn hippies told you to.
Downsides:
None
This Showcases My Conversation Skills
me: if you're that bored, i've got an article on software estimation that needs writing
James: oh word!
James: yeah lemme get to that
me: yeah
me: formula is
me: Estimate = Min x -Max + Min + ScaleFactor x Max
me: ScaleFactor being between 0 and infinity (but probably around 0.7)
me: basically centers around this distribution:
me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_distribution_(continuous)
me: which has unique properties that allow the inverse CDF input to be greater then 1!
James: i was gonna blog about good rap thats out
me: that'd probably be better then my boring shit
me: at least someone would read that.
me: "oh man numbers THBBT"
me: (but my technique allows you to easily use stratified latin hypercube sampling for determining the best estimation time!)
me: (or straight monte carlo if you want to run more trials!)
me: yeah
me: you can see why i've been just ITCHING to write about it so hardcore
James: for sure
James: totally passionate about it
me: it's gonna be extra boring
me: yeah
me: because i'm going to trash joel's theory of software estimation and debunk betaPERT as ineffectual as it doesn't handle small increments well
me: not to mention i'ts completely biased against the 'most likely' which is probably wrong.
me: i have the most boring life ever.
James: i stopped reading what you typed a while ago
James: lemme know when you're back on that rap talk
An Excellent Rebuttal of Paul Graham
I saw this a few years ago, but I’m re-reading it because it’s good. Also Paul Graham is kinda meh. It was written in response to Hackers and Painters, which was decent at best. A sample, from dabblers and blowhards:
The whole genre reminds me of the the wooly business books one comes across at airports (“Management secrets of Gengis Khan”, the “Lexus and the...
Fixing Rocketfish Bluetooth Keyboard on Vista/Win7...
When I originally upgraded to Vista and Windows 7, I could not get my Rocketfish Bluetooth keyboard to connect. This was incredibly annoying as the keyboard decently expensive (~$100) and pretty nice. I ended up reverting back to the crummiest cheapest $3 keyboard I could buy at Microcenter, and it sucked.
Eventually, I grew sick of it and spent today figuring out how to make my Rocketfish...
My Own Personal λ
I updated my main website, dsokol.com with an approximate update frequency. This λ value is the exacted number of updates per day, sampled from the last one year period. Given that my blog has had eight or so updates, over the past 365 days, my future frequency is calculated to be 0.02192. (λ = 8 / 365)
This is not an accurate prediction of frequency, as data for the past 11 of 12 months is...
Show Me Your Desktop
Last week, @shanselman started a tag stream on twitter called #showmeyourdesktop. He seemed to be somewhat miffed that everyone he knew had nice, clean desktops with a pretty background image and very few icons. About 10 submissions in, I decided to post my own work desktop, which you can see in a prior post.
This is apparently not how must programmer desktops look. At all, period, ever. From...