http://krung.net/blog Kostadis Roussos' Musings on a Random World Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:18:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So there is a massive earthquake in Japan, with who knows what consequences, and the great and glorious SIGGRAPH papers community has taken action. Why yes they have, they have given the folks in Japan 48 hours. Dear authors, Due to the severe earthquake in Japan, papers with Japan-based authors may have an ... http://krung.net/blog/2011/03/11/the-siggraph-community-cares/ For the purposes of this discussion I will use the term application and system interchangeably to describe a piece of software with more than 300k lines of code and with more than 5 developers. Dynamic programming languages allow you to make the Faustian bargain of ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/09/06/dynamic-programming-languages-are-a-net-negative-on-engineering-productivity/ http://www.littletikes.com/toys/young-explorer.aspx In this age of technology we think it is essential that children learn about computers as early as possible. This technology can enhance critical and cognitive thinking skills, problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking. Having child-appropriate computers and software in your facility shows parents that you ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/09/06/babys-first-cubicle/ Fry’s Electronics is a Bay Area institution. Fry’s has notoriously poor customer service paired with excellent selection and an amazingly great no questions asked return policy. How bad is the customer service? When Best Buy set up shop here, they ran a sequence of ads asking local ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/09/03/the-worst-customer-experience-ever-at-frys-electronics/ http://www.tovima.gr/default.asp?pid=2&ct=1&artid=351032&dt=29/08/2010 Το πιο εντυπωσιακό συμπέρασμα της έρευνας της Κάπα Research είναι ότι η μεγάλη πλειονότητα των νέων με πτυχίο στην Ελλάδα δηλώνει πρόθυμη να εγκαταλείψει τη χώρα για να βρει μια σταθερή και καλά αμειβόμενη εργασία. Από το σύνολο των ερωτηθέντων, το 73,6% δηλώνει ότι θα ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/08/29/greeks-leaving-greece-again/ I love this humorous comment on youtube: Look at your comment, now back to mine. Now back at your comment now back to mine. Sadly it isn't mine, but if you stopped trolling and started posting legitimate comments it could look like mine. Look down, back ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/08/25/look-at-my-post/ After almost a year long hiatus, I got my python program twitterblog to work again. twitterblog lets me take a twitter time line and directly dump it into my typepad blog. There were a couple of limitations of the original software, which are now fixed, and on ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/03/07/twitterblog-rides-again/ Okay so they are virtual and not quite real, but hot-doggedy-damn. I saw 8 CPU’s in Windows 7 viewer and that was just cool. Almost 10 years ago I thought it was super cool that I had an Octane as a workstation with TWO processors, and here I am ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/03/05/schweet-8-cpus/ Twice this Olympics Scott Hamilton has been snarky. First it was the Brian Boucher comment: Finally Brian gets his gold medal. Like really dude, we know you beat him. We know it. And yes we’re bitter as Canadians that Brian came in second twice. Then it was the comment on Ice-Dancing: I’ve ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/02/27/scott-hamilton-the-snark/ The Olympic Quarterfinal women's pursuit between Germany and the US produced the most amazing race. The German racer, Anna Friesinger-Postma,  bonked, pulled a muscle, who knows, but she was failing with one lap left to go. And then with no gas left in the tank she fell on the ice and ... http://krung.net/blog/2010/02/27/from-heaven-to-hell-in-5-seconds/