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Traffic feedback loop
Thanks to many years of Simcity, I harbor a secret desire to be a city planner. In particular I am fascinated by traffic patterns and how stop lights should work to allow for maximum efficiency. Of course, I don’t actually know anything about city planning, and I can’t spot a properly working stop light, but [...]
Desperately seeking geeks
All of my regular readers (both of them) aren’t in the market for a job, but since this is indexed by Google, I thought I would post this anyway.
Qualcomm is in great need for Linux graphics engineers, especially ones with open source X11 experience. Here is the req.
Qualcomm has been ranked as one of the [...]
Inside the financial meltdown
This is a fascinating look inside Washington Mutual as it was imploding last year. The most mind blowing line?
“Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife’s parents,” she recalled. Simpson had been acquitted [...]
