Comments for Primordial Ooze

Comment on Math Problem by Pavan Podila

Pavan Podila — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:46:32 +0000

The operator is defined as:
x + y = x*x + x*y

so, 9 + 7 = 9 * 9 + 9 * 7 = 81 + 63 = 144

Comment on Math Problem by Nick

Nick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:57:14 +0000

Right on.

Comment on Math Problem by charles

charles — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:36:15 +0000

144

Comment on Math Problem by rob

rob — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:29:56 +0000

144?

Comment on Remote-controlled SR-71 Blackbird by Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:17:59 +0000

That’s seriously cool Charlie, thanks.

Comment on Remote-controlled SR-71 Blackbird by Charles Turano

Charles Turano — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:54:05 +0000

Here is a link to the flight manual for the real thing:

http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/

Comment on Outlook Trick for quickly moving mail to Read folder by Nick

Nick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:50:47 +0000

Awesome! I made that change l ocally.

Comment on Outlook Trick for quickly moving mail to Read folder by John Dunne

John Dunne — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:26:49 +0000

In the loop that moves the items into the Read folder, I added this:

objItem.UnRead = False

Which marks the items as read.

Comment on Why Google uses Mercurial over Git by Nick

Nick — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:31:57 +0000

Jakub, that’s cool. I did some http transfers recently and it seemed pretty quick. I just figured that’s because my project was small. Good to know, thanks!

Nick

Comment on Why Google uses Mercurial over Git by Jakub Narębski

Jakub Narębski — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:01:55 +0000

Actually Git recently acquired so called “smart” HTTP transport support, which should be as efficient as Mercurial HTTP transport.

Comment on First words on git… by Primordial Ooze : Git and Perforce Integration

Primordial Ooze : Git and Perforce Integration — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:58:31 +0000

[...] an avid fan of git, a great open-source version control system. I wrote a little bit about how I use my website as a private repository before. Now, I’m going to [...]

Comment on How large is a petabyte? by The Conscious Life

The Conscious Life — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:55:11 +0000

Wow, this infographic is great! It tell the story about petabyte so clearly using analogies, simple words and easy to understand icons and charts. Awesome!

Comment on Apple Repairs by Nick

Nick — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:53:50 +0000

I know, but it’s not nearly as fun. I’ll have to use e-mail, bleh. I loved Tweetie. Maybe I’ll find a Windows mobile app that will do the trick. But I lose music, my favorite mobile games, a good browser, and tons more.

Comment on Apple Repairs by Tony

Tony — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:51:29 +0000

you can twitter from your crappy Blackjack 2.

Don’t be a slave to the tools, work around them!

Comment on How large is a petabyte? by dean bushmiller

dean bushmiller — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:11:50 +0000

Do you have time to talk about your hc3 / macbook pro setup?
I need help form someone who has actually made it work.
With brand new cable, camera: I get no detection on the firewire. I did all the stuff apple says, they don’t have it listed on the supported products.

Were you able to pull video strait from the camera or did you need to play back after shooting?

I would email you directly but cannot find your contact info.
If you have a few minutes, I could take a call.

THanks for any help at all.

Comment on Magic Eye by Nick

Nick — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:01:00 +0000

Yes! Merlot, what a great idea! I had a calendar full of these 10 years ago…

Comment on Magic Eye by Jeannie

Jeannie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:27:08 +0000

Stop wasting your time get a life

Note: This was helped along by me checking this out during the post-holiday pot-luck lull at work. Helped by lots of nog and merlot.

Comment on Susan Boyle by Nick Cody

Nick Cody — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:50:56 +0000

Ouch. Remind me not to blog when I’m drinking beer.

Comment on QCon San Francisco 2009 – Part II of III by Nick

Nick — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:39:26 +0000

OMG, that explains it perfectly! Thanks Michael. By the way, I was the guy who spoke to you briefly at the bell station while you were checking out. Best – Nick

Comment on QCon San Francisco 2009 – Part II of III by Michael Feathers

Michael Feathers — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:18:54 +0000

One thing to get also is that Amanda and Josh are married, so she has every right to tell him that every once in a while :-)

Comment on QCon San Francisco 2009 – Part I of III by Primordial Ooze : QCon San Francisco 2009 – Part II of III

Primordial Ooze : QCon San Francisco 2009 – Part II of III — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:41:40 +0000

[...] the last post, I talked a l ittle about my QCon experience and provided a list of the sessions I attended. In [...]

Comment on How keyboards work by johnnyz

johnnyz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:20:07 +0000

That technology was invented by Steven Sample, president of UB when we were students there. Weren’t you an engineering major?

Comment on And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. by Ferran

Ferran — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:02:24 +0000

I googled for “python spe” images and i ended there:

http://www.primordia.com/blog/archives/2007/04/deleting_files_with_special_na.html

try rm — file (– to end parameter list)

Comment on Light Peak by Derek

Derek — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:43:35 +0000

I wonder how this will play against USB 3.0, which promises 5Gbps? That’s half the speed of Light Peak, but
still pretty fast and backward-compatible with USB 2.0, which can’t hurt adoption.

Comment on A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure. by Nick

Nick — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:56:44 +0000

Sebastian… HD video was possible with my 3-year old MacBook… the MacBooks out now are more powerful and can certainly handle it.

Nick

Comment on A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it’s better to be thoroughly sure. by Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:54:55 +0000

Hi! I just read your post on editing hd video on macbook. Thanks a lot, because I wasn’t sure will mac manage to edit it. So after my friends persuading me to buy one and reading this post I will for the first time switch from Windows to Mac. As soon as I can afford it.

Comment on Red Sydney by Derek

Derek — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:31:59 +0000

Check out these.

Comment on Wireless Electricity by johnnyz

johnnyz — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:32:00 +0000

didnt tesla come up with that 80 years ago?

Comment on Ivan Sutherland: Sketchpad by Derek

Derek — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:55:36 +0000

Cool. My first job after college was at Evans & Sutherland, the company Ivan co-founded with David Evans. Back then they still made kick-ass flight simulators and other cool 3D stuff. Since then they sold that business to Rockwell and now make planetarium projectors. Still cool, but not the mighty graphics powerhouse of yesteryear.

Comment on Windows 7 by Martin

Martin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:57:05 +0000

UAT? What’s that? Did you mean UAC or is this something else?

I just did a clean install of Win7 Ult x64 and it’s been very nice so far. Lots of shiny in the UI that’s new to me because I’ve skipped Vista.

Comment on Macworld Magazine Cover Creation by Jeannie

Jeannie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:55:23 +0000

If you liked that, have a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
I showed this one to my Girl Scout troop

Comment on 2009 Nautica NYC Triathlon Results! by Joe Lidowski

Joe Lidowski — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:04:29 +0000

Nicky- What can I say but AWESOME! I think the most I ever ran at one time was about 12 miles (that was in my prime). I am very proud of you and what you have accomplished. You are a good man… Love from your old cousin Joe… talk to you soon.

Comment on 2009 Nautica NYC Triathlon Results! by Dr. H.

Dr. H. — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:26:57 +0000

Having done a few of these myself, I am always impressed by anyone with the courage and will to not only compete but complete. Congratulations and good luck next year. By the way if I wanted to do this how would I???

Comment on 2009 Nautica NYC Triathlon Results! by John Codignotto

John Codignotto — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:06:42 +0000

Great review–hope you do this again next year–I’ll really try to make it.

Dad

Comment on The Matrix runs on Windows XP by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:48 +0000

Awesome. “I see you’re trying to save humanity. Can I help you with that?”

Comment on Rwanda! by Jennifer Day

Jennifer Day — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:20:42 +0000

Beautiful shots. Keep taking more.

Comment on My First Triathlon by Tony

Tony — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:19:14 +0000

Nickybeans! it was a pleasure to do this with you brother. yessir, we are triathletes!

Comment on Fractal Cheetah by justdroppingby

justdroppingby — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:38:10 +0000

wow that is so cool…nice work, Artist Unknown! :)

Comment on Fractal Cheetah by Nick Cody

Nick Cody — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:16:47 +0000

I have no idea what software was used. I simply saw this somewhere and posted it.

Comment on Fractal Cheetah by Mrunal

Mrunal — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:40:43 +0000

Hey i was wondering what software did you use to make this? please email me back, thank you.