Jon Skeet's generation of the Mandelbrot set via LINQ chaotically oscillates between absurdity and relevance, sensitive to the input of what aspect of concurrency you're thinking about. If you're thinking about efficiency, you rapidly head towards "absurd," but if you think about mental models, it rapidly heads towards relevance (by …

Jeff Duntemann (a great competitor/friend from the Computer Language days) opines that:

[T]here are three different kinds of reading:

• Meditative reading is reading to change your state of mind....
• Autodidactive reading is reading to teach yourself something....
• Developmental reading is reading within the process of creating texts for …

This story of a couple that stole \$7 million on Monday and were nabbed this morning reminds me of a second-tier friend from High School who was very dim. A few years after HS I heard that he had gotten a job with an armored car company doing ATM refills …

Sounds like a great opportunity to hang out with compiler geeks. Since someone's already beaten me to an LOLCode compiler for the DLR, I'll have to put in some work on my other projects: \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink%2cguid%2c8dc6782d-9207-4909-bcc4-f5dc7444c6c0.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Excel …

The Kindle browser works much better with RESTful sites as opposed to AJAXian Web 2.0-y pages. To be more specific, the Kindle browser doesn't work well at all with AJAXian Web 2.0-y pages.

So this leads me to look for RESTful intermediaries / proxies for the two most useful …

A quick check with a hex editor revealed that the Kindle .AZW format contains the magic number "BOOKMOBI," which led me to this set if free eBooks in Mobi format. Sure enough, when copied to an SD card, MOBI files come right up in the Kindle Homepage.

Here is a …

I challenged Tim O'Reilly, who said "I'm rooting for Jeff and the Kindle," on the subject of O'Reilly's lack of support for the Kindle:

Why no O'Reilly books on the kindle? Well, Amazon has chosen to use a proprietary format, with a conversion cost of a couple of hundred dollars …

I just emailed my Kindle the PDF of Programming Ruby and lo! it works great, with even the ToC converted into hyperlinks.

The first thing that must be said about the Kindle is that the screen technology -- eInk -- is vastly more readable than any screen you've read from before. Pause. No, seriously, vastly more readable. My wife, no technologist, actually used the word "wow," and after reading a page opined that it …

U. of Arizona researchers have built a robot that's guided by the brain of a moth. I assume the resulting rampage can only be stopped by cantilevering a lightbulb over the rim of the Grand Canyon.