Google Buzz launched, and it seems to do some fun stuff, but it also broke a lot of peoples’ privacy assumptions and privacy models. That was bad. But for me, the most disappointing thing was that Google never said “oops, my bad”. Instead, every post on the official Google blogs has been in the chirpy [...]
Archives for February 2010
Computer Engineer Barbie
In the words of Tracy: “Oh Internet, is there anything you can’t do?” Thanks to an Internet vote, coming this December you will be able to buy Computer Engineer Barbie! I generally loathe Barbie, but am extremely interested in broadening participation in CS. So, instead of a vague uncaring feeling, I instead feel very very [...]
Why version control?
You should have version control. For everything. Not because you’ll ever go back and look at old revisions, but so that you’ll know that you can go back and look at old revisions. Armed with that knowledge, you can now freely throw away bits and pieces, secure in the knowledge that if you actually want [...]
