Some things I’ve picked up from working with PyObjC recently.
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I’ve been looking around for some more detailed information about the “Site Reliability Engineering” positions at Google. Apparently the role is a real mix of very large-scale system administration, planning and automation. I’ve collected some links to public info about the job. The Google channel has a promotional video from one engineer about the role [...]
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I’ve always liked the programming-languages community website Lambda the Ultimate, and recently I went looking for something similar for the High-Performance Computing community. I didn’t find exactly that*, but I did find a few great resources for news about HPC and computing research policy: HPCWire is a well-known news source for HPC. It has daily [...]
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The UT-Austin TRIPS project will unveil their processor next Monday, and I take a look at what it looks like.
This is really cool: Fran Allen, a founder of the field of program optimization and compiler analysis, will be the first woman to receive the Turing Award. More info, including a description of her accomplishments, is at the ACM press release.
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The excellent “Take Control” series of Mac ebooks has updated “Take Control of OS X Backups” to version 2.0. I have gotten a lot of use out of their other books. “Take Control of Your Airport Network” saved me a lot of frustration setting up a network for my roommates, and “Take Control of Spam [...]
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BibDesk 1.3 was just released (see here for very complete release notes), and this release adds a few features that were requested four years ago – searching PubMed and libraries with Z39.50 support. If you use those resources, this means no more downloading files to import references – just search from within BibDesk, and your [...]
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If you’re like me and don’t have a Leopard Preview, and if you haven’t seen the Leopard Developer Application Technologies Overview, you should take a look. There’s some pretty interesting stuff coming down the pipe. I like the Calendar store, which lets any application work with the iCal calendar info in much the same way [...]
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It’s been mentioned before, for example on Digg, but iTunes 7 has a new feature that counts the number of times you’ve skipped a track, which is defined as playing the song for at least two seconds but no longer than twenty (after which it is counted as played fully). I’m curious how they chose [...]
My Powerbook’s been back for a couple of weeks now, and I had a good overall experience dealing with OC Data Recovery to get my data off the drive. Their San Diego Location is in Sorrento Valley. I didn’t test their speed, since my main concern was cost, but they managed to get about 98% [...]
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