In light of recent events: On Leaving Google.

VideoClix’s technology allows viewers to click on different objects within a video, including show hosts and products, for more information and facts on what they’ve clicked on. The product is pitched as offering curious TV viewers seeking more information on what they’re seeing on the screen the option to obtain that information.
Doesn’t that sound a [...]

As an lvalue “keys” allows you to increase the number of hash buckets allocated for the given hash. This can gain you a measure of efficiency if you know the hash is going to get big.
Taken from
perldoc -f keys
. Awesome!

What a bold statement! Do these something less than 100 lines of Perl really transform each and any Java program into its Perl equivalent? No, they don’t. But what they do is just the way I use automation: automate what you can automate easily and leave some work unfinished, so it doesn’t get too boring [...]

Yesterday I had to add a third case to a piece of code that is currently capable of handling two cases and that seems like the original author didn’t ever want to enable adding any other cases. This is not the first time that I have to do something like that and I remember being [...]