Yuliy Schwartzburg, Romain Testuz, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Mark Pauly To appear at SIGGRAPH 2014 Website: http://lgg.epfl.ch/caustics/ Abstract: We present a new algorithm for computational caustic desig
RT @TammySalyer: Interesting to compare the @scalzi (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/07/30/amazons-latest-volley/)i view w the @hughhowey (http://www.hughhowey.com/could-it-be-any-clearer/) view of Amazon…
No wonder Steve Jobs clicked with Adobe founder John Warnock. While introducing the iPad Jobs said, “The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the in
“Speaking up every. Fucking. Time” Published in Matter · 22 min read · Jul 9, 2014 -- How one feminist publisher is taking on the worst of Silicon Valley (and some of her allies, too) By Elizabeth Spi
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Andrew House has spoken of the internal discussions held within PlayStation as it attempted to balance the priorities of a PS4 with beefy technical specifications and
i18n.courses.learn_privacy.title Course 6 A course to help you build more privacy-preserving websites. i18n.courses.learn_accessibility.title Course 21 Discover how to make your websites and web apps
It’s so simple, right? Published in The Message · 10 min read · Jul 24, 2014 -- Someone could make off with all your garbage that’s put out on the street, and carefully record how many used condoms or
(Photo By Natalie Portman with a shaved head. Photo: Getty) The “manosphere” really hates short-haired girls. On “game” forums and in personal dating manifestos, the wickedness of short-haired women p
Watch @KeithOlbermann address how the level of basic human respect for women in sports is consistently being eroded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fc_AnLaBew
Just when it seems like the internal combustion engine has reached a performance peak, another automaker pushes the power and torque bar even higher. Thanks to sophisticated computerized sensing and control systems, fuel injection, and intake boosting, today’s powerplants have higher outputs and…
What’s the big deal with Apples Metal API? June 11, 2014 Robert Graphics APIs , During the WWDC 2014 keynote Apple surprised us all by announcing a new 3D graphics API: called Metal (try to google tha
RT @donlbe: Odd story - who knew it was an Olympic event?!? A History of Tug-of-War Fatalities via #nytnow http://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/
This is a story about me and a video game. Although I have always been and expect I always will be a nerd, the events of this story take place when I was approximately 8-10 years old, meaning I had not yet worn away the extra layer of turbo-nerd that little boys of that inclination tend to have at…
Sometime in the summer of 2002, having just graduated from university and determined to change the world, I was driving home from Albert Lea, Minnesota formulating my resignation letter. After graduat
WebKit’s FTL JIT (Faster Than Light Just In Time compiler) has switched to a new backend — Bare Bones Backend (B3) replaces LLVM as the low-level optimizer in the FTL JIT. Just a decade ago, JavaScrip
I knew that the Cairo Object File Store (OFS) was in trouble my first week at Microsoft. I’d been asked to attend a design meeting for OLE DB that would start at 6PM. On Friday. Why such a seemingly i
Although there are several ways to interpret the phrase “integrated storage” (or “unified storage”) one of the most important ones to focus on is that it creates a single store for Unstructured, Semi-
Hopefully Part 1 gave you some idea of the scenarios that Integrated Storage was intended to address and why you would want support in the storage system to help address them. And yes, I barely scratc
People have been bugging me to write about Integrated Storage for some time, and with Bill Gates having just disclosed that failure to ship WinFS was his biggest product regret now seemed like a good
I enjoyed Brian Chesky’s recent post Don’t Fuck Up The Culture , where he proclaims to the employees of Airbnb the importance of culture in everything they do. I like Airbnb and it’s nice to see a fou
It’s not that I think Jimmy Fallon is a bad “Tonight Show” host. I’m pleased with my current provider of 11:35 PM comedy services, I have sampled the alternatives, and I feel no desire to switch provi
In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.
This article was originally published in the November 1998 issue. Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit. It was so old, in fact, that it was really an unstuff
Teachers are technically hired to teach content—math, science, English, history. But over the course of a normal school day, we teach so much more. I’ve enforced dress codes because I want my students
“We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” But given how much our minds mislead us , what if we don’t realize when we’re pretend
By adding more layers. A knit hat and scarf around my neck to be exact. I didn't understand what was happening at first. People started talking to me more. Women would speak to me like I knew them sin
I’ve been hating on status reports for a long time and it comes from my first knee-jerk reaction when my manager asked for one. My unspoken thought was, “Why, wait, what?” I didn’t understand big comp
Every fall, a new iPhone. The schedule of Apple’s mobile hardware releases has become pretty predictable by now, but they more than make up for this timing predictability by the sheer unpredictability
Interest in using the internet to slash the price of higher education is being driven in part by hope for new methods of teaching, but also by frustration with the existing system. The biggest threat those of us working in colleges and universities face isn’t video lectures or online tests. It’s the…
Most people don't care much about their filesystems. But at the end of the day, the filesystem is probably the single most important part of an operating system. A kernel bug might mean the loss of wh
UPDATE: I’ve added a short section on the topic of . I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a go
RT @martinfowler: A nicely balanced comparison of experiences using code review versus pair programming by @phinze http://phinze.github.io/2013/12/08/pairing-vs-code-review.html
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