May 2008 - Posts

Shutdown Is No Time For Spring Cleaning
12 May 08 12:56 PM | ricom | 19 Comments   

I think my current performance pet peeve is shutdown. Assorted flavors of it, they all seem to have the same kind of problem. Sometimes we're stuck with it... but maybe we shouldn't be? This is one time when our basic training, which normally I love so Read More...

Filed under: performance

Cycles in Computer Science, or Am I Ancient?
05 May 08 10:11 AM | ricom | 12 Comments   

It's been a strange couple of weeks.  No, really. It all started when a friend of mine, let's call him "Desi", posted a question asking about what he should do in his last few months of college.  A reasonable enough question and I Read More...

Filed under: ramblings