January 2010
7 posts
Geek behaviors present during conversations →
This article presents some common behaviors I’ve observed from my past few years of interactions with geeks, nerds, and other highly-smart technical people. For brevity, I will simply use the term “geek” throughout this article as a catch-all term for such people.
"Piracy" is an inevitable result of a market... →
An excellent essay comment.
35,000-Core Ubuntu Server Farm Renders Avatar →
They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of their graphic sequences.
Holy schmoly, that’s a lot of power.
Sachin Tendulkar: When familiarity breeds respect →
Watching Sachin Tendulkar bat these days is almost like watching a re-run of one’s favourite TV show. When the innings is over, one is hard-pressed to remember a single stand-out shot; not because there aren’t any but because, having been essayed so many times over 20 years, nothing screams out. That pull, that cover drive, the slog sweep and those punchy drives invoke a sense of...
“If we refuse to be terrorized, if we refuse to implement security theater and...”
– Schneier on Security: Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security