I’ve got two kinds of people I want to talk to today: programmers and actors.
First things first. Let’s define some terms. Well, really just one term: The Text.
Programmers, most of your time as a programmer is spent working on other people’s programs. Likewise, actors, most of your time as actors is spent putting [...]
When you take a picture with your camera, you are collecting light from the world onto a thin sheet where it is recorded. Now, the trouble with the world is that the stuff in it is sending out light in a trillion different directions at once. This makes it tricky for taking pictures. You can’t just hold up a piece of photographic paper in front of your favorite cat and expect the image of the cat to be transferred to the paper. No, the paper would be instantly bombarded with so much light from so many directions it would shortly become saturated and useless. Instead, you have to figure out a way to put a filter between the paper and the world, a way of saying “Mr. Photon, are you coming from my kitty? Okay, you’re in. The rest of you rabble, out.”
Over at Jon Rentzsh’s Red Shed, there was a bit of a discussion begun recently about using virtual machines as a sort of antivirus mechanism.
Since Jon doesn’t include a comment form with his posts, and since I reckon he’d rather not become the middle-man for an extended discussion, I wanted to post my additional comments [...]
About six years ago I found myself sitting in a barn in Connecticut, staring at a young woman.
We sat in folding metal chairs, about twelve inches from each other, along with perhaps eight other students, grouped in pairs. The couples had dispersed casually about the space, all sitting in pretty much the same formation: [...]
Hello Internet! It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name’s Chris. I’ve heard a lot about you. Your place is really fantastic. I never would have guessed this many people would fit in here.