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Thursday, January 28th, 2010Today, Steve Jobs and Apple announced Apple’s newest piece of hardware: the iPad. But this announcement confirmed yet again that Apple is a one man company. This is clearly illustrated through the history of Apple Computer. When Mr. Jobs was ousted from the company, Apple began to stagnate. In fact, from the time that Jobs [...]
Equality(=) Does Not Imply Equality
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010A common argument has arisen with respect to equality today: if there are equal numbers of men and women doing a job, then the societal problem of discrimination based on sex has been solved. In light of this argument, the government has put into place many measures which try to ensure numerical equality. Numerical equality [...]
Education Might Help
Thursday, January 21st, 2010With the government constantly spending on everything from health care for everyone to bridges, they should spend some of that money on education for government workers. Take this recent slashdot story, which tells a woeful tale of a “junior staff member” who used peer-to-peer software on his home computer and unknowingly lost a confidential House [...]
Knowledge Is Useless
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010There are many men who work their whole lives to gain knowledge and become an expert in a field and then waste it away because they never apply their knowledge. For example, consider a man who spent his whole life in the world’s best cooking schools: every day he pored over books, inhaled lectures and [...]
Integer to int null pointer exception?
Friday, March 20th, 2009As I was coding up some stuff for class today I was using your friendly HashMap in Java. I created the hash map so it would use an Object and an Integer. I would have rather done an int but you can’t template ints. Anyway, at one point I was pulling the Integer out of [...]
Steve Williams from Digg pays a visit…
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Steve Williams, the second employee hired on at digg, came by our class today and gave a lecture. I really enjoyed the lecture. There were tons of new problems and thoughts that he introduced about running a big distributed system like digg. One thing I was really surprised about is that when your systems are [...]
JRS AWS
Monday, February 2nd, 2009For one of my classes this semester we are using AWS to create a distributed web application for pictures. I started a blog about so that I can fulfill the class requirement for a blog about it plus it really helps to remember the problems that I have had to fight through. Anyway, if you [...]
Current Projects
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Over the past few months I have been working hard in another semester of school. I have been implementing projects like a madman. I just wanted to highlight a few of the more interesting ones I have been working on this semester. Web Server – yep, that is correct. I now have my own threaded [...]
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