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Back of the Envelope: TRON: Legacy

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Back of the Envelope. Thursday, December 30, 2010. TRON: Legacy was one of the more interesting movies of 2010. The following are some themes which were explored and contains spoilers, so be warned. References to the Christian religion. References to Eastern philosophy, Taoism (duality), Sun Tzu's Art of War. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ben Mok Pedal On. Mind of a daft bitch. MINI Habitat Singapore does not perform Preventive. Picture Window template. Powered by Blogger.

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Back of the Envelope: November 2010

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Back of the Envelope. Thursday, November 11, 2010. Land of Lisp book review. Because the author assumes the reader has a basic grasp of his operating environment, setting up a Common Lisp implementation (editor/compiler) is not covered in detail. If that idea is too daunting for you, then you may wish to refer to the beginning chapters of Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp. Or David Lamkin's Successful Lisp. As a starting point and come back to LoL when you're more comfortable with how things work.

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Back of the Envelope: October 2010

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Back of the Envelope. Thursday, October 14, 2010. Back to the Mac. On 20 October, Apple is going to let the world know what they have planned for OS X 10.7. Wednesday, October 13, 2010. As seen on HN. 1998: "if" too slow; use "case". 2002: "case" too slow; use Boolean algebra. 2006: Boolean algebra too slow, use arrays and pointers. 2010: Who wrote this shit and what does it do? Rewritten to use "if". Friday, October 08, 2010. Reasons for continued existence of 3GS. 1) Reduce supply pressure of the iPhon...

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Back of the Envelope: September 2010

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Back of the Envelope. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. So Blackberry has revealed its iPad competitor, the PlayBook. Without access to the SDK, these are some of my thoughts:. 1) It's running on QNX RTOS or some flavor of it. QNX has a long history in the embedded space and it's nice to see that Blackberry management does not fall victim to the "not invented here" syndrome. 3) Specs-wise it looks good. Power management is unknown however. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ben Mok Pedal On. Mind of a daft bitch.

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Back of the Envelope: MINI Habitat Singapore does not perform Preventive Maintenance

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Back of the Envelope. Wednesday, December 22, 2010. MINI Habitat Singapore does not perform Preventive Maintenance. Both the driver and passenger sun visor hinges on Eve's R56 MINI were worn and were close to breaking. The passenger-side was replaced under warranty while we were told that that we had to wait for the driver-side to be stocked, which would be outside the warranty period. Download the audio where the service manager states clearly that MINI Habitat does not perform preventive maintenance.

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Back of the Envelope: April 2010

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Back of the Envelope. Friday, April 23, 2010. Microsoft and Apple quarterly results. Microsoft's net income over 12 months was about US$4 billion. Apple's was US$3 billion over a QUARTER. And this is the period before iPad was available for sale, whereas Windows 7 has been out on the market for some time. Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Adobe should learn from Apple. So there's a huge flap. Thursday, April 08, 2010. Nicholas Carr writes about The iPad Luddites. Nicholas Carr writes about The iPad Luddites.

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Back of the Envelope: September 2009

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Back of the Envelope. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. App Store download stats. On June 17 to June 18 last year, Mozilla set a new world record. For most number of downloads in a 24 hour period for Firefox. According to stats supplied by Apple and as reported by AppleInsider. Since it first opened 445 days ago, the App Store has seen an average of 4.5 million downloads per day. In the last 80 days alone, that total has accelerated to nearly 6.3 million each day. Thursday, September 17, 2009. Date: 1413....

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Back of the Envelope: Land of Lisp book review

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Back of the Envelope. Thursday, November 11, 2010. Land of Lisp book review. Because the author assumes the reader has a basic grasp of his operating environment, setting up a Common Lisp implementation (editor/compiler) is not covered in detail. If that idea is too daunting for you, then you may wish to refer to the beginning chapters of Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp. Or David Lamkin's Successful Lisp. As a starting point and come back to LoL when you're more comfortable with how things work.

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Back of the Envelope: July 2010

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Back of the Envelope. Monday, July 19, 2010. So the tech press and bloggers are offering their analysis and meta-analysis about "Antennagate". Ignoring the fact that these dying publications' revenue model are based on selling more dead trees (or garnering more pageviews in the case of bloggers) and thereby have a vested interest in making mountains of molehills, let's concentrate on their reasoning ability (or lack thereof). On his own, and calls out Consumer Reports on their flawed methodology. 4) Assu...

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Back of the Envelope: December 2009

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Back of the Envelope. Wednesday, December 23, 2009. The worst kind of hypocrite. John Gruber posted a link to Google's blog about "The meaning of being open". With all due respect to friends working at Google, I would have to agree with Gruber. The blog entry is a steaming pile. Lots of factual errors to mislead the non-technical reader. I'm just going to pick out a few paragraphs in the article cos it's just too lengthy. Open will win. It will win on the Internet and will then cascade across many wa...